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1. Who's cats are using our neighbours garden?

2. Who's cats' are using our neighbours garden?

3. Whose cats are using our neighbour's garden?

4. Whose cats are using our neighbours' garden?

2) Lots of people are confused about when to use "may" and when to use "might". Which one is better here?

1. The win against Australia might have been a turning point, but it didn't turn out like that

2. The win against Australia may have been a turning point, but it didn't turn out like that

3) Read this sentence carefully. "I'd like to introduce you to my sister Clara, who lives in Madrid, to Benedict, my brother who doesn't, and to my only other sibling, Hilary." Which of the following is correct?

1. Hilary is male

2. Hilary is female

3. It's impossible to know from the context

4) Less and fewer often cause people grief. Which of the following is wrong?

1. There's less water in the river these days

2. I eat fewer than five apples a week

3. I drink less than three coffees a day

5) Which of the following sentences correctly contains a semi-colon?

1. My uncle's whiskers are magnificent indeed; but I have no desire to stroke them.

2. Landing a plane isn't hard; I once saw a child do it.

3. There are two countries beginning with Z; Zimbabwe and Zambia.

6) "This is the kind of tedious nonsense up with which I will not put!" Which grammar rule was Winston Churchill supposed to have objected to?

1. Don't start a sentence with but.

2. Avoid splitting an infinitive.

3. Never end a sentence with a preposition.

7) Sometimes you should use "that" and sometimes "which". Which sentence here is wrong?

1. The car which ran me over was speeding.

2. The car that ran me over was speeding.

3. The car, which was speeding, ran me over.

8) Consider this sentence: "Do you mind my asking you?" Which of the following does it include?

1. Modal

2. Gerund

3. Imperative

9) Which of the following is not correct?

1. I was sitting in the chair

2. I sat in the chair

3. I was sat in the chair

10) "The Queen arrived at the castle with the King by her side, in a dress adorned with hand-sewn embroidered dragons." What kind of mistake is this?

1. Fallen subjunctive

2. Misplaced modifier

3. Dangling participle

正確答案及解析：

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解析：

1. Who's" is short for "who is", whereas "whose" is used to describe items that belong to someone. The garden belongs to the neighbour (singular) so needs an apostrophe before the "s".

"Who's" 是 "who is"的縮寫，而 "whose" 則指某物為某人所有。句中描述花園主人時用的是單數(shù)，所以需要用單數(shù)加所有格符號"'s".

2. The use of may or might varies according to context. In this case, because the victory did not result in a turning point, one chooses the more hypothetical might. May would be correct only if the turning point had happened.

由句子可知，勝利并未帶來預(yù)期的轉(zhuǎn)折點(diǎn)。因此要用假設(shè)語氣更強(qiáng)的"might"，只有在"turning point"真正出現(xiàn)時才可以用"may"。

3. The absence of a comma before "who doesn't" implies that there are other brothers. A comma after "my brother" would mean that there was only one brother.

"my brother"和 "who doesn't" 之間沒有用逗號隔開，暗示還有其他的兄弟，"who doesn't"只是限定修飾其中之一。如果 "my brother" 之后有逗號，說明只有一個兄弟。

4. For "countable" things use fewer. For things that are not "countable" - such as water in the river - use less.

可數(shù)名詞用“fewer”，不可數(shù)名詞用“less”。句中“coffees”指的是“幾杯咖啡”。

5. Here it links two independent clauses. You do not use it before a conjunction such as "and" or "but". A colon or dash would work better in the last sentence.

分號用來連接兩個獨(dú)立的子句，這時句中不會出現(xiàn)"and" 或"but"等連詞。最后一句用冒號或破折號更好。

6. The story is apocryphal. It is likely that the comment came from a memorandum written by one of Churchill's civil servants.

這個定語從句分寫成簡單句是：This is the kind of tedious nonsense. I will not put up with the nonsense.

7. "That" defines something, whereas "which" adds new information in a separate clause, often needing commas.

"that" 用于定義某物狀態(tài)、性質(zhì)，而 "which" 會在從句中增添新的信息，并且時常會用逗號隔開。

8. A gerund is a noun made from a verb by adding "-ing".

gerund：動名詞;指由動詞加"-ing"變?yōu)槊~的情況。

9. To use "was" requires the participle "sitting" after it.

"was" 后要用分詞 "sitting" 。

10. This is a clause placed so awkwardly as to create ambiguity or misunderstanding. A dangling participle is a type of misplaced modifier involving a participle. Fallen subjunctive does not exist.

這句話語序混亂表達(dá)不清。"dangling participle" 指的是垂懸分詞，是"misplaced modifier" (修飾錯位)的一種，涉及分詞形式; "fallen subjunctive"是“錯用虛擬”，本句沒有用到虛擬語氣。