Coordination quiz

Multiple-choice exercise
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Choose the best answer for each question.

  1. Why is You can have some soup or the dog is not well. nonsense?
    1.   lack of commonality
    2.   lack of coordination
    3.   false conditionality
    4.   lack of logical chronology
  2. What is the coordinator doing in He was happy and who can wonder at it??
    1.   expressing conditionality
    2.   showing chronological sequence
    3.   expressing commonality
    4.   commenting
  3. What is the coordinator doing in Finish this for me and you can have tomorrow off.?
    1.   commenting
    2.   expressing conditionality
    3.   expressing commonality
    4.   showing chronological sequence
  4. In English, the coordinator or is
    1.   inclusive
    2.   exclusive
    3.   bilateral
    4.   reciprocal
  5. In He must have enjoyed the food or he wouldn't have eaten it. the coordinator expresses
    1.   conditionality
    2.   adversion
    3.   inclusivity
    4.   reciprocity
  6. In He heard the story and laughed till he cried. the clauses cannot be reversed and make sense because
    1.   it reverses the conditionality
    2.   it confuses the causality
    3.   the second is a comment on the first clause
    4.   it confuses chronology
  7. In He didn't waste any water but used it very sparingly. the coordinator is
    1.   adversative
    2.   exclusive
    3.   reciprocal
    4.   confirmatory
  8. In the sentence She will go to the concert and her friend might. we have a case of
    1.   phrasal omission
    2.   object noun-phrase omission
    3.   clausal omission
    4.   modal verb omission
  9. In the sentence He removed, washed, sanded, painted and refitted the door. we have a case of
    1.   cataphoric object ellipsis
    2.   anaphoric object elision
    3.   second subject omission
    4.   phrasal omission
  10. He washed the dirt off the floor and his hands of the guilt. we have a case of
    1.   metaphor
    2.   false coordination
    3.   zeugma
    4.   homonymy