Lesson test: Quoting and thinking

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Quoting and thinking

1.[3p]
Complete: 彼かれは学生がくせい＿と思おもいます. Write the missing kana.

CorrectNot quite: だ

2.[3p]
Complete: 田中たなかさんが学生がくせい＿どうか分わかりません. Write the missing kana.

CorrectNot quite: か

3.[3p]
Converting 「明日あした来きます」と言いいました into indirect quotation changes how many things?

One, the politeness of the quoted verb

Correct

Two, the politeness and the tense

The answer is: One, the politeness of the quoted verb

Three, the politeness, the tense and the pronoun

The answer is: One, the politeness of the quoted verb

None, since と works with either register

The answer is: One, the politeness of the quoted verb

4.[3p]
田中たなかさんは明日あした来くると言いいました. Why is 来くる not in the past?

Its tense is fixed relative to the moment Tanaka spoke, when the coming was still ahead

Correct

Only the last verb of a sentence may carry tense

The answer is: Its tense is fixed relative to the moment Tanaka spoke, when the coming was still ahead

と cannot attach to a past form

The answer is: Its tense is fixed relative to the moment Tanaka spoke, when the coming was still ahead

The speaker is not certain the coming happened

The answer is: Its tense is fixed relative to the moment Tanaka spoke, when the coming was still ahead

5.[3p]
Which is right for "Tanaka wants to go back to Japan"?

田中たなかさんは帰かえりたいと思おもっています

Correct

田中たなかさんは帰かえりたいと思おもいます

The answer is: [田中]{たなか}さんは[帰]{かえ}りたいと[思]{おも}っています

田中たなかさんは帰かえりたいです

The answer is: [田中]{たなか}さんは[帰]{かえ}りたいと[思]{おも}っています

田中たなかさんは帰かえりたいと言いいます

The answer is: [田中]{たなか}さんは[帰]{かえ}りたいと[思]{おも}っています

6.[2p]
What does って do in 田中たなかさん、来こないって?

Quotes, with the verb of saying left for the listener to supply

Correct

Asks a question

The answer is: Quotes, with the verb of saying left for the listener to supply

Marks 田中たなかさん as the object

The answer is: Quotes, with the verb of saying left for the listener to supply

Softens a refusal

The answer is: Quotes, with the verb of saying left for the listener to supply

7.[3p]
Which is wrong?

試験しけんがあるかどうかと聞ききました

Correct

試験しけんがあるかどうか聞ききました

The answer is: [試験]{しけん}があるかどうかと[聞]{き}きました

試験しけんがあるか聞ききました

The answer is: [試験]{しけん}があるかどうかと[聞]{き}きました

試験しけんがあると聞ききました

The answer is: [試験]{しけん}があるかどうかと[聞]{き}きました

8.[4p]
Match each connector to the form a noun takes in front of it.

と思おもう
ので
んです
か分わからない

学生がくせい
学生がくせいだ
学生がくせいな
学生がくせいな

Show the answer

と思おもう: 学生がくせいだので: 学生がくせいなんです: 学生がくせいなか分わからない: 学生がくせい

9.[2p]
Indirect quotation in Japanese strips politeness and sentence-final particles from the quoted clause.

True

Correct

False

The answer is: True

1.[3p] Complete: 彼かれは学生がくせい＿と思おもいます. Write the missing kana.

2.[3p] Complete: 田中たなかさんが学生がくせい＿どうか分わかりません. Write the missing kana.

3.[3p] Converting 「明日あした来きます」と言いいました into indirect quotation changes how many things?

4.[3p] 田中たなかさんは明日あした来くると言いいました. Why is 来くる not in the past?

5.[3p] Which is right for "Tanaka wants to go back to Japan"?

6.[2p] What does って do in 田中たなかさん、来こないって?

7.[3p] Which is wrong?

8.[4p] Match each connector to the form a noun takes in front of it.

9.[2p] Indirect quotation in Japanese strips politeness and sentence-final particles from the quoted clause.

1.[3p]
Complete: 彼かれは学生がくせい＿と思おもいます. Write the missing kana.

2.[3p]
Complete: 田中たなかさんが学生がくせい＿どうか分わかりません. Write the missing kana.

3.[3p]
Converting 「明日あした来きます」と言いいました into indirect quotation changes how many things?

4.[3p]
田中たなかさんは明日あした来くると言いいました. Why is 来くる not in the past?

5.[3p]
Which is right for "Tanaka wants to go back to Japan"?

6.[2p]
What does って do in 田中たなかさん、来こないって?

7.[3p]
Which is wrong?

8.[4p]
Match each connector to the form a noun takes in front of it.

9.[2p]
Indirect quotation in Japanese strips politeness and sentence-final particles from the quoted clause.