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Unterrichtende: Was ist ein Fehler?
The Loneliness of the Klausur-Marking English Teacher
1.
Right or wrong?
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Hotel on the
Chinese
authorities have given permission for the world's highest hotel to be built on
the Everest's Tibetan side.
The 52-beds
hotel, which is to build at the Northern Base camp in an altitude of 17.000 ft,
is the brainchild of a
Despite
assurances that it will be a "flagship of green building techniques",
many climbers have lamented this "commercialization of the Everest".
The hotel is
likely to attract as much as 20.000 visitors a year.
2. Anything fishy here?
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a. If
we will all do our best, we will succeed.
b. I
hope we see more of you in future.
c. She's
part Irish, part French.
d. At
the bottom of the stairs stands a suitcase.
e. Going
back to his room, he sat down at his desk and wrote a letter.
f.
I followed the instructions and everything went
smooth.
g. Only
a broad-based government can bring peace to
h. Research
has repeatedly showed that people who cohabit behave very different from people
who marry.
i.
Why doesn't he be a leader instead of a follower?
j.
Didn't you used to swim in the river?
k. He
dictated me a detailed shopping list for things he wanted from the supermarket.
l.
Less
cars on the road means less traffic. To continue the environmental argument, less cars also mean less pollution.
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1.
adv:
Also possibly is that they were on a ship to
2.
adv:
Another reason for the mass starvation was the totally or largely dependence of
the rural Irish population on their annual potato crops.
3.
adv:
Sir Charles Trevelyan, the director of government's Irish relief measures
reacted on the catastrophe in island inadequate.
4.
adv:
The main directly reason of the Great Famine is the blight caused of a fungus
which attacks the stalks and tubes of the potatoe plants.
5.
adv:
The verb "left" would sound more simply than the given verb.
6.
article
a(n): A "country" means also a land which is outside towns.
7.
article
the: But the luck wasn't on their side.
8.
article
the: The most of the tenants were leaving to their fate.
9.
article
the: This catastrophe was in its hardness and scope unique in the Irish
history.
10.
aux:
The so-called "penal laws" forbid a lot for Catholics like they don't
have to own land or buy a horse with a higher price than five pounds.
11.
comma
splice: A peasant owns no land he only rents the land on which he works.
12.
comma
splice: Thomas Barrett was an Irish farmer, that meants he owned the farm and
was largely or totally dependent on the potato crops.
13.
comma:
A farmer is the owner of the land not the tenant.
14.
comma:
For the ones, who arrived in a new land, started a critical examinasion
medical.
15.
comma:
I think, Mary Rush was a common Irish Catholic woman.
16.
comma:
If you consider of all the people, who starved to death it is more than
possible that Mary and her family were perished, too.
17.
comma:
In 1846 when the Great Famine was in the beginning she sent a letter to her
family in which she was begging for taking her and her family out of
18.
comma:
People, who lived near or in towns, felt better because there were still other
food sources.
19.
comma:
She and her family will die, if her parents will not help them.
20.
comma:
Sir Charles Trevelyan, the director of government's Irish relief measures
reacted on the catastrophe in island inadequate.
21.
comma:
The so-called "penal laws" forbid a lot for Catholics like they don't
have to own land or buy a horse with a higher price than five pounds.
22.
comma:
The text, written by Kerby Miller and Paul Wagner is about the individual fate
of Mary Rush and her family during the Great Famine.
23.
concord:
It is not sure whether Mary and her family was still alive after the famine or
not.
24.
concord:
The Barrett's was a family with several children and not quite rich.
25.
conj:
Thousands of people starved to death, died of typhus, cholera or other diseases.
26.
constr:
In my opinion she was very brave to stay in
27.
exp:
A lot of people died through diseases or the worse conditions.
28.
exp:
After the Irishmen had recorved of this shock the fights for independece
started, because the oppression during hunderts of years and the less helping
by the British goverment led to an anti-British attitude among many Irish
people.
29.
exp:
During the first time of the famine many diseases like Colera or Thyphus spread
out and such sickness spread out in the "coffin ships" either very
fast.
30.
exp:
His older daughter Mary stays in
31.
exp:
Other landlords gave their peasants passage to go to other English-speaking
countries.
32.
exp:
She hoped that one day the live for Catholics turned to a better side.
33.
exp:
The Barrett's was a family with several children and not quite rich.
34.
exp:
The Great Famine caused on many facts.
35.
exp:
Today is still the conflict between Catholics and Protestants which was founded
in past when
36.
genitive:
She was illiterate because her family was unable to pay for education their
daughter.
37.
genitive: the sons of them
38.
inf with
for: It was forbidden to them to get education and to teach their own children.
39.
inf
with for: Other landlords gave their peasants passage to go to other
English-speaking countries.
40.
inf:
Mary asked the parish priest or the local schoolmaster for writing a letter to
her parents.
41.
number:
A lot of peoples died on the journey.
42.
numbers:
43.
numbers:
Unable to pay their rents hundreds of thousands peasants were evicted from
their cottages.
44.
obj:
The desperated Mary dictated someone her letter.
45.
passive:
Most of the tenants were leaving to their fate.
46.
passive:
There are to mention the penal laws, which are only created to subdue the Irish
Catholics.
47.
plural:
The Rush's are desperate and they hope for money from
48.
prep:
A farmer raises large amounts of crop or vegetables in order to sell them with
profit.
49.
prep:
But an other reason of the famine was the political situation.
50.
prep: If
the people didn't starve to death, they died through diseases.
51.
prep:
Maybe Mary loved
52.
prep:
She stayed there with the hope that one day the life of Catholics would
improve.
53.
prep:
The author means with "poverty isle" the whole island.
54.
prep:
The authors are sure that the Rush's never arrived at
55.
prep:
The Great Famine is the time between 1845 till 1850.
56.
prep:
The main directly reason of the Great Famine is the blight caused of a fungus
which attacks the stalks and tubes of the potatoe plants.
57.
prep:
The verb "departed" can be replaced through the verb
"emigrated".
58.
prep:
They escaped of these bad conditions.
59.
redundancy:
A peasant lives on subsistence level with no big income.
60.
redundancy:
Another possible verb to replace "depart" could be
"emigrate".
61.
redundancy:
It is not sure whether Mary and her family was still alive after the famine or
not.
62.
reference:
63.
reference:
They possibly reached
64.
reference:
When Mary was a young woman their parents emigrated to
65.
repetition:
With the blight came the diseases like typhus, cholera and other diseases.
66.
style:
I guess the author used "departed" as an irony.
67.
tense
shift: Charles Trevelyan had the opinion that this famine was a blessing and it
settles the population explosion in
68.
tense
shift: Mary Rush belongs to a Catholic family. Her home was in Ardnaglass in
the western
69.
tense
shift: Some Protestants helped their tenants who can't paid their rent any
longer.
70.
tense:
If the British would have helped more, less Irish were starved to death.
71.
tense:
72.
tense:
The main directly reason of the Great Famine is the blight caused of a fungus
which attacks the stalks and tubes of the potatoe plants.
73.
tense:
The so-called "penal laws" forbid a lot for Catholics like they don't
have to own land or buy a horse with a higher price than five pounds.
74.
tense:
They thought Got send the disaster on the Earth to punish the people.
75.
w:
Landlords give passages that their tenants were able to go to other
English-speaking countries.
76.
w:
Marry Barrett was the elderly sister.
77.
w:
Mary asked the parish priest or the local schoolmaster to write a letter for
her to her family.
78.
w:
Mary pleased her parents to take her and her family out of the poverty island and
don't let them die with the hunger.
79.
w:
The so-called "penal laws" forbid a lot for Catholics like they don't
have to own land or buy a horse with a higher price than five pounds.
80.
w: The
underlying reason was the political, economical and denominational oppression
by the English crown.
81.
w.o.: "Go away" and "leave" are
more in a general way used.
82.
w.o.: A "country" means also a land which is
outside towns.
83.
w.o.: A blight the potato plants let die.
84.
w.o.: Also possibly is that they were on a ship to
85.
w.o.: In her letter described Mary the situation in
86.
w.o.: It can also be used the word "leave".
87.
w.o.: Mary had to help her parents with the harvests
probably and that's why she could not go to school.
88.
w.o.: Sir Charles Trevelyan, the director of
government's Irish relief measures reacted on the catastrophe in island
inadequate.
89.
w.o.: The British government had the bad situation in
the first time underestimated.
90.
w.o.: This catastrophe was in its hardness and scope
unique in the Irish history.
91.
wordiness:
A farmer raises large amounts of crop or vegetables in order to sell them with
profit.
92.
wordiness:
But, due to the cause that the Barretts' farm generates no cash income the
Barretts haven't got any money they could send to their daughter.
93.
wordiness:
Charles Trevelyan had the opinion that this famine was a blessing and it
settles the population explosion in
94.
wordiness:
Shortly after they had gone to Canada Mary joined in marriage to a workman
named Michael Rush.
95.
wordiness:
They came to death by diseases.