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