English Test

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Originally Posted by Lunerica

My findings:

4/6 teachers said Forget
1/6 said delay
the other said he didn't know.

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This is not a test from a country where English is the primary language. It is a secondary language there, and their sentence structure differs to ours. In Malaysia (where this test is from) they DO use the phrase "don't delay" and to them that is correct English.

Again, they are NOT asking for you to fit the word back into the context of the sentence, the sentences are there to give context to the phrases. They simply want to know what words the phrases translate to.

The correct answers are
- Delay (the ONLY word there that means "drag on")
- Determine
- Expecting

/Thread and I SERIOUSLY thought this was a troll, nobody the age of 10 should be struggling with this.

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Originally Posted by Rishwin

This is not a test from a country where English is the primary language. It is a secondary language there, and their sentence structure differs to ours. In Malaysia (where this test is from) they DO use the phrase "don't delay" and to them that is correct English.

Again, they are NOT asking for you to fit the word back into the context of the sentence, the sentences are there to give context to the phrases. They simply want to know what words the phrases translate to.

The correct answers are
- Delay (the ONLY word there that means "drag on")
- Determine
- Expecting

/Thread and I SERIOUSLY thought this was a troll, nobody the age of 10 should be struggling with this.

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Did you even read the whole thread? - I did acknowledge at the top of this page the question requirements. And forgetting where English is used for a moment; this is where language barriers happen, because people aren't brought up with the knowledge of PROPER english and not some 'foreign' idea of English, that is where this question failed.

I don't see why everyone has to make a big deal out of it; Forget is correct - regardless if it is from China, or Malaysia. I have learnt proper English, always have and always will; it's not my fault that I can see past the errors in questions. The person who wrote this question, is obviously not English; and probably hasn't even learnt a lot about English language either.

Anyhow, this thread is just going to derail into a huge massive fight about this - my findings were evident enough that it is forget.

And btw they were all A Level English teachers (the one who said he didn't know; didn't care about what I was asking him, it was more a less - get it over with etc). I showed them this thread (well the picture) and they all understood what I was asking them perfectly well.

Delay

Enough said

End of story

Ttfn

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Originally Posted by Rishwin

This is not a test from a country where English is the primary language. It is a secondary language there, and their sentence structure differs to ours. In Malaysia (where this test is from) they DO use the phrase "don't delay" and to them that is correct English.

Again, they are NOT asking for you to fit the word back into the context of the sentence, the sentences are there to give context to the phrases. They simply want to know what words the phrases translate to.

The correct answers are
- Delay (the ONLY word there that means "drag on")
- Determine
- Expecting

/Thread and I SERIOUSLY thought this was a troll, nobody the age of 10 should be struggling with this.

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Yeah, I think Lunerica is totally trolling now. British people use Don't Delay! too, Called to Account: Don’t delay, make energy switch easier | The Sunday Times it's pretty common in marketing.

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Originally Posted by Lunerica

Did you even read the whole thread? - I did acknowledge at the top of this page the question requirements. And forgetting where English is used for a moment; this is where language barriers happen, because people aren't brought up with the knowledge of PROPER english and not some 'foreign' idea of English, that is where this question failed.

I don't see why everyone has to make a big deal out of it; Forget is correct - regardless if it is from China, or Malaysia. I have learnt proper English, always have and always will; it's not my fault that I can see past the errors in questions. The person who wrote this question, is obviously not English; and probably hasn't even learnt a lot about English language either.

Anyhow, this thread is just going to derail into a huge massive fight about this - my findings were evident enough that it is forget.

And btw they were all A Level English teachers (the one who said he didn't know; didn't care about what I was asking him, it was more a less - get it over with etc). I showed them this thread (well the picture) and they all understood what I was asking them perfectly well.

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The country where it is used it vitally important meta data to the question. Asking someone how to sell colour for instance without knowing where you are asking it, will give you conflicting answers. Language is constantly changing over time, trying to treat it as if it were a math question is simply flawed, (which is also why I disagree with standardised testing, but that is a separate issue!)

Forget is incorrect, and telling people it's right is just confusing foreigners and kids. You aren't learning proper English if you don't know the meaning of drag on. Seriously, google it, that alone should be enough for you to realise you are wrong.

You findings are not only inconclusive, but also irrelevant as they are from people of a different country. Ask them if saying "by accident" or "on accident" is correct, again depending on country either can be correct (though it pisses me off when people in America say on accident!) As for being A level teachers, well I worry about your education if they can't answer this question correctly. But then the first thing you learn at uni is everything you thought you knew is irrelevant, and you spend your first year relearning everything. Once you get a bit older you will realise teachers aren't infallible.


Also disliking EKs post is a dick move.

This thread has spiraled out of the realm of reasonable productive discussion. I am closing this before infractions are needed for flaming and/or trolling.