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Recognising Linguistic Structures - Example 1
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palo ko = I sit
palo tu = she sits
karo tu = she stands
"I stand" is expressed in the foreign language by:
Degree of difficulty: low
Solution
Answer (C) is correct since:
The expressions for "I sit" and "she sits" only differ as regards the second word ("ko" and "tu"
respectively), so the first word "palo" must have the meaning "sit". Correspondingly, the word "ko"
means "I" and "tu" has the meaning "she". This is confirmed by the third expression: "tu" again means
"she" and "karo" hence means "stand". "I stand" can therefore only be expressed by "karo ko".
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