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