Tuesday, October 02, 2007
The Lowdown
先生がなかなか来ないので、学生がさわぎ＿＿＿＿。
- つづいた
- はじまった
- おわった
- だした
The answer is option 4.
On the face of it, the grammatical point is quite straight-forward. I've covered the use of はじめる, おわる, だす and つづける after a verb in base 2 and seen that they mean to start, finish, continue and suddenly start some action respectively.
The question itself also seems pretty straight-forward: in Jenglish we get [teacher] [by no means] [come] [because], [students] [make noise/kick up a fuss], or more naturally, Because the teacher hadn't come, the students _____ kicked up a fuss.
My first reaction, now I've read up on the grammar, is to ignore (1) and (2). All my research suggests that, in compound verbs, you use はじめる and not はじまる. Likewise it's つづける and not つづく. (3) also seems wrong, if not grammatically then semantically. So, by process of elimination, the answer is 4.
またね・・・
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