I encountered this question before. The underlined idiom was "SHE PUT HER NOSE TO THE FIRE". This question also had choices. These were:
<span>She was cold as she wrote her speech, so she sat by the fire.
She worked hard to finish her speech for the assembly.
She was proud of the speech once she finished it.
She finished the speech in a very short amount of time.
The underlined idiom tells the reader that SHE FINISHED THE SPEECH IN A VERY SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME.
When you put your nose to the fire, you don't last long because of the heat. Thus, you only spend a short amount of time putting your nose to the fire.</span>
I’m confused, what’s the question ? this statement is correct..?
Answer:
Sentence A is correct
Explanation:
Let’s begin by looking at Sentences B-D:
<em>B. our house was built on the sight of an old factory.</em>
This sentence uses the word “sight”<em> </em>incorrectly. The word should be site, as in “location.”
<em>C. Whose scheduled to work at the restaurant tonight?</em>
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This sentence uses the word “whose” incorrectly. The word should be who’s, as in the contraction of “who is.”
<em>D. Kim was upset because everyone had a job accept her.</em>
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This sentence uses the word “accept“ incorrectly. The word should be except, as in “excluding.”
That leaves Sentence A, which uses all words (including the homophone “clothes”) correctly.
I hope this helps!
Aster, usually referring to one star
The branch of linguistics that studies sounds is Phonetics - this is the correct answer.
Syntax studies the structure of sentences, for example the difference between active and passive sentences
Semantics studies the meaning of linguistic expressions.
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