Answers for week 3

Dear all,

Here are the answers for this week's questions.

Q6. (1) complete

Explanation: made (past tense) Susan (Noun) [if a verb is used here, it is used in the base form, meaning present tense and plural form]

Q7. (2) herself

Explanation: Keywords to highlight are "who completed the project". This is a tricky question. We are finding out who completed the project and in this case, it is Miss Chew, a female and hence the pronoun, 'herself'.

Q8. (4) were

Explanation: The rule for 'either...or' and 'neither...nor' questions is to always look at the second subject and in this case, it is his friends (plural). Now, let us take a look at the tense to use and the word 'rang' suggests that it is in the past tense thus, the answer should be in the plural form but past tense.

Q9. (3) does he

Explanation: The question is phrased in a questioning form, thus the two parts of the sentences should be opposite in meaning to each other. In this case, you must read very carefully. The first part 'hardly ever goes to parties' means that he does not usually go to parties so the second part of the sentence should be opposite of 'does not'.

Q10. (4) flown

Explanation: The keywords here are 'ever' and 'before' which would suggest that the perfect tense should be used as it has already taken place. 

Fly (present tense) Flew (past tense) Flown (perfect tense)

 Q16. (2) infested

Explanation: 

infested is used on insects or animals ; meaning to be present in large numbers to cause damage and harm

invasion is usually used on people, e.g invaded by enemies, invaded by the French army.

Q17. (4) fell through

Explanation: 

fell through means not completed and stopped

fell out means to have a disagreement and stop interacting with someone

Q18. (2) yields

Explanation: This question is of a higher difficulty level. The key word you have to look at is 'harvest'.

yield is to give forth or produce by a natural process or in return for cultivation. e.g This farm yields enough fruit to meet all our needs.

reaps is to get as a return, recompense, or result: to reap large profits.

Q19. (3) accessible

Explanation: The key words are "offshore islands" and "motorboat". As such, it is talking about travelling and whether the place itself is accessible.

Q20. (3) subsided

Explanation: The key word here is 'flood' and we often talk about a flood subsiding.

Subside means to sink to a low or lower level.

I realised I have forgotten to post the questions for this. I will do so tomorrow. My apologies.

Sincerely,

Mr Nelson Ong