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 commonality
    4.   lack of logical chronology
  2. What is the coordinator doing in He was happy and who can wonder at it??
    1.   expressing commonality
    2.   commenting
    3.   showing chronological sequence
    4.   expressing conditionality
  3. What is the coordinator doing in Finish this for me and you can have tomorrow off.?
    1.   expressing conditionality
    2.   commenting
    3.   showing chronological sequence
    4.   expressing commonality
  4. In English, the coordinator or is
    1.   inclusive
    2.   bilateral
    3.   exclusive
    4.   reciprocal
  5. In He must have enjoyed the food or he wouldn't have eaten it. the coordinator expresses
    1.   reciprocity
    2.   adversion
    3.   conditionality
    4.   inclusivity
  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 reverses the conditionality
    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.   confirmatory
    2.   adversative
    3.   exclusive
    4.   reciprocal
  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.   object noun-phrase omission
    4.   phrasal omission
  9. In the sentence He removed, washed, sanded, painted and refitted the door. we have a case of
    1.   second subject omission
    2.   anaphoric object elision
    3.   phrasal omission
    4.   cataphoric object ellipsis
  10. He washed the dirt off the floor and his hands of the guilt. we have a case of
    1.   homonymy
    2.   zeugma
    3.   metaphor
    4.   false coordination