tzfujimino
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- Dec 8, 2007
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- English Teacher
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- Japanese
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- Japan
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- Japan
Hello, everyone.
This is part of the test questions that appeared on an entrance exam of a university in Japan:
1. Mount Fuji is certainly a wonderful sight.
2. You can make an argument for anything if you know which author to cite.
3. They considered Mount Fuji but decided it wasn't the right site.
4. To shoot properly you need to look along the sight.
5. He decided to cite his novel in the past.
Students are asked to choose the wrong sentence from among the five choices.
It's quite hard for me to pick one, because all of them look grammatical to me!
I have no problem at all with #1, #2 and #3.
I first thought #4 was wrong.
I thought, 'Aha! "look along the sight" should be "look at the sight", but ... hang on ... "sight" is different from "target".
"look along the sight" does make sense in this context!'
Then I came to the conclusion that #5 is wrong.
Am I correct?
Thank you.
This is part of the test questions that appeared on an entrance exam of a university in Japan:
1. Mount Fuji is certainly a wonderful sight.
2. You can make an argument for anything if you know which author to cite.
3. They considered Mount Fuji but decided it wasn't the right site.
4. To shoot properly you need to look along the sight.
5. He decided to cite his novel in the past.
Students are asked to choose the wrong sentence from among the five choices.
It's quite hard for me to pick one, because all of them look grammatical to me!
I have no problem at all with #1, #2 and #3.
I first thought #4 was wrong.
I thought, 'Aha! "look along the sight" should be "look at the sight", but ... hang on ... "sight" is different from "target".
"look along the sight" does make sense in this context!'
Then I came to the conclusion that #5 is wrong.
Am I correct?
Thank you.