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Building left- and right-dislocation sentences

Build each conversational sentence with the required pause and case marking. Targets use informal 해체, except the final formal-writing item; each item has two unused tiles.

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Question 1

Build a contrastive left-dislocation with the object position left empty: _____

Options: 보고서를, 읽어야 할 사람이 정해지지 않았어., 보고서가,, 그걸

Question 2

Build a presentational left-dislocation and resume the external topic with a pronoun: _____

Options: 제안이,, 제안은, 그걸 맡을 부서가 정해지지 않았어., 그것에

Question 3

Build a left-edge scene setter that contrasts this meeting with other settings: _____

Options: 회의에서도,, 확정했습니다., 회의에서는, 새 규정의 시행 시기를 확정하기로 했어.

Question 4

Build a sentence that reveals the actor as a late, surprised focus: _____

Options: “올 사람이 없다”고들 했는데 왔더라, 민수가., 민수를., 민수에게.

Question 5

Build a sentence that specifies the purchased item only after the predicate: _____

Options: 책이., 마지막 재고였다고 해서 샀어, 그 책을., 책이라고.

Question 6

Build a sentence with one right-dislocated time phrase and no other delayed constituent: _____

Options: 내일을., 만났습니다,, 만나기로 했어, 내일 세 시에.

Question 7

Build an appositional repair in which a final noun phrase identifies the referent already expressed as 그 사람: _____

Options: 누가 전화했느냐면 그 사람이었어, 민수가., 민수를., 민수라고.

Question 8

Build a sentence that specifies the referent of 그걸 with a right-edge noun phrase: _____

Options: 소설이., 그걸 읽어야만 참여할 수 있대, 그 소설을., 소설이라고.

Question 9

Build a sentence with only the object right-dislocated after the completed clause: _____

Options: 자료가., 자료라고., 인수인계 담당자가 전달했어, 그 자료를.

Question 10

Embed the restored base-order statement inside a formal reporting frame: _____

Options: “담당자인 김 소장이 원본 자료를 전달했다.”라고 기록했다., 자료가,, 전달했어.

Practice Building left- and right-dislocation sentences with this interactive sentence-building exercise of 10 questions. Tap the words into the correct order to build each sentence, then submit to check your answers and get detailed feedback on every sentence.

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