Timeline for “…[it] became a ______ for me.” Why is "gift" the right answer?
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| Sep 20 at 15:02 | comment | added | Eike Pierstorff | @DarthPseudonym fwiw, I took the trouble of sending a message to Joanna Cannon via the form on her website really out of sheer curiosity to see if she approved of this (although the copyright might be with The Guardian in any case). Copyright questions aside, making a person who makes her living with words seem semi-illiterate might cause them damage (and yes, I know it's probably not relevant to her, but still). | |
| Sep 20 at 14:42 | comment | added | Darth Pseudonym | Okay, wow, so they took an original piece that was written correctly by a native English speaker, then paraphrased and rewrote it, introducing a ton of mistakes, and then made that a language test to check the competence of somebody who's just learning the language. That's just great. | |
| Sep 20 at 2:12 | comment | added | Freya | Thank you so much Eike, for finding the original article. I doubted myself for a time because of the weird answer, but now I know the right one. | |
| Sep 20 at 2:03 | vote | accept | Freya | ||
| Sep 20 at 0:03 | comment | added | Peter Shor | I believe what happens with a lot of these incorrect tests is that somebody has access to the questions of a standardized test, but not the answers. So they supply their own answers. Quite often, they're incompetent. | |
| Sep 19 at 17:38 | history | edited | Eike Pierstorff | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Sep 19 at 14:16 | history | answered | Eike Pierstorff | CC BY-SA 4.0 |