Korrekturübungen für Unterrichtende – Schlüssel / Key
1. Right or wrong?
Hotel on_Mount Everest
Chinese
authorities have given permission for the world's highest hotel to be built on _ Everest's Tibetan side.
The 52-bed_ hotel, which is to be built
at the Northern Base camp at 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 _ Everest".
The hotel is
likely to attract as many as 20,000 visitors a year.
2.
Anything fishy here?
a. If we will all do our best, we will succeed. (Korrekt. Will im if-Satz drückt hier Wollen, Bereitwilligkeit, nicht die "neutrale Zukunft" aus.)
b. I hope we see more of you in future. (Korrekt. Nach I hope kann sowohl das Futur als auch das present tense stehen.)
c. She's
part Irish, part French. (Korrekt.)
d. At the bottom of the stairs stands a suitcase. (Korrekt. Vgl. Große Lerngrammatik Englisch, S. 398.)
e. Going
back to his room, he sat down at his desk and wrote a letter. (Korrekt. Vgl. Große
Lerngrammatik Englisch, S. 317.)
f. I followed the instructions and everything went smooth. (Smoothly ist hier etwa 3½ mal so häufig wie smooth; smooth ist umgangssprachlicher, aber nicht falsch.)
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. (Showed ist als past participle wesentlich seltener als shown, im AE aber häufig genug, um nicht als falsch zu gelten. Differently wird hier als das "normale Adverb" wesentlich häufiger benutzt als different, aber auch different kommt in entsprechenden Kollokationen vor, sodass man besser keinen Fehler anstreicht, wohl aber – besonders unter Berücksichtigung der Stilebene – differently als "more prestigious form" empfiehlt.
i.
Why doesn't he be a leader instead of a follower?
(Korrekt. The meaning is here "act as a leader.")
j. Didn't you used to swim in the river? (Korrekt. Vgl. Große Lerngrammatik Englisch, S. 367 f.)
k. He dictated me a detailed shopping list for things he wanted from the supermarket. (Nicht vollkommen falsch. An dictate wird das Personenobjekt gelegentlich ohne to angeschlossen.)
l. Less cars on the road means less traffic. To continue the environmental argument, less cars also mean less pollution. (Korrekt. Vgl. Große Lerngrammatik Englisch, S. 116 und 148.)
3. Authentische Schülerfehler für Korrekturübungen
1.
adv: It
is also possible that they were on a ship to
2.
adv:
Another reason for the mass starvation was the extreme or total dependence of
the rural Irish population on their annual potato crops.
3.
adv:
Sir Charles Trevelyan, the director of the government's Irish relief measures,
reacted inadequately to the catastrophe in
4.
adv:
The immediate cause of the Great Famine was a blight caused by a fungus which
attacks the stalks and tubes of the potato plants.
5.
adv: "Left"
would sound more simple / less formal than "departed".
6.
article
a(n): "Country" also means land which is outside towns.
7.
article
the: But luck was not on their side.
8.
article
the: Most of the tenants were left to their fate.
9.
article
the: In its severity and scope, this catastrophe was unique in Irish history.
10.
aux:
The so-called penal laws imposed numerous restrictions on Catholics. For
example, they were not allowed to own land or buy a horse worth more than £5.
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, which means that he owned the farm
and was largely or totally dependent on the potato crops. /
Thomas Barrett was an Irish farmer. That meant 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 a tenant.
14.
comma:
Those who arrived in a new country faced a critical medical examination.
15.
comma:
I think Mary Rush was a common Irish Catholic woman.
16.
comma:
If you consider all the people who starved to death, it is quite likely / not
at all improbable that Mary and her family perished, too.
17.
comma:
In 1846, at the beginning of the Great Famine, she sent a letter to her parents
begging them to take her and her family out of
18.
comma:
People who lived near or in towns fared better because there were still other
food sources.
19.
comma:
She and her family will die if her parents do not help them.
20.
comma:
Sir Charles Trevelyan, the director of the government's Irish relief measures,
reacted inadequately to the catastrophe in
21.
comma:
The so-called penal laws imposed numerous restrictions on Catholics. For
example, they were not allowed to own land or buy a horse worth more than £5.
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 uncertain / Nobody knows whether Mary and her family were still alive
after the famine.
24.
concord:
The Barretts were a poor family with several children. / The Barretts had
several children and were poor.
25.
conj: Thousands
of people starved to death(,) or 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 from/of diseases caused by the horrific/appalling
conditions on board ship.
28.
exp:
After the Irish had recovered from this shock, the struggle for independence
started, because hundreds of years of oppression and the British government's
failure to help led to an anti-British attitude among many Irish people.
29.
exp:
At the beginning of the famine diseases such as cholera or typhus spread out
and these diseases spread out in the "coffin ships" very fast too.
30.
exp:
His older daughter, Mary, stays in
31. exp: Other landlords paid for their peasants to go/emigrate to other English-speaking countries.
32. exp: She hoped that one day life might improve for Catholics.
33. exp: The Barretts were a poor family with several children. / The Barretts had several children and were poor.
34. exp: The Great Famine had many causes.
35.
exp:
The present conflict between Catholics and Protestants started / originated
centuries ago when
36. genitive: She was illiterate because her family was unable to pay for their daughter's education.
37. genitive: their sons
38. inf with for: It was forbidden for them to get an education and teach their own children.
39. inf with for: Other landlords paid for their peasants to go/emigrate to other English-speaking countries.
40. inf: Mary asked the parish priest or the local schoolmaster to write a letter for her to her parents.
41. number: A lot of people died on the journey.
42.
numbers:
43. numbers: Unable to pay their rents, hundreds of thousands of peasants were evicted from their cottages.
44. obj: The desperate Mary dictated her letter to someone.
45. passive: Most of the tenants were left to their fate.
46. passive: Also to be mentioned are / We must also mention the penal laws, which were only created to subdue the Irish Catholics.
47.
plural:
The Rushes are desperate and they hope for money from
48. prep: A farmer raises large crops in order to sell them at a profit.
49. prep: But another cause of / reason for the famine was the political situation.
50. prep: If people didn't starve to death, they died from/of diseases.
51.
prep:
Maybe Mary loved
52. prep: She stayed there in the hope that one day the life of Catholics would improve.
53. prep: By "poverty isle" the letter writer means the whole island.
54.
prep:
The authors are sure that the Rushes never arrived in
55. prep: The Great Famine is the time from 1845 till / (better:) to 1850 / between 1845 and 1850.
56. prep: The immediate cause of the Great Famine was a blight caused by a fungus which attacks the stalks and tubes of the potato plants.
57. prep: The verb "departed" can be replaced by/with the verb "emigrated".
58. prep: They escaped / (better: fled from) these bad conditions.
59. redundancy: A peasant lives at subsistence level. / A peasant has hardly any income.
60. redundancy: Another verb to replace "depart" could be "emigrate".
61. redundancy: It is uncertain / Nobody knows whether Mary and her family were still alive after the famine.
62. reference: Since these people depended entirely on their potato monoculture, they now had nothing to eat.
63.
reference:
They possibly reached
64.
reference:
When Mary was a young woman, her parents emigrated to
65. repetition: With the blight came diseases like typhus and cholera.
66. style: I suppose/think/believe the author used "departed" ironically.
67.
tense
shift: Charles Trevelyan believed that the famine was a blessing since it
stopped the population explosion in
68.
tense
shift: Mary Rush belonged to a Catholic family. Her home was in Ardnaglass in
the western
69. tense shift: Some Protestants helped their tenants who could not pay their rent any longer.
70. tense: If the British had helped more, fewer Irish people would have starved to death.
71.
tense:
72. tense: The immediate cause of the Great Famine was a blight caused by a fungus which attacks the stalks and tubes of the potato plants.
73. tense: The so-called penal laws imposed numerous restrictions on Catholics. For example, they were not allowed to own land or buy a horse worth more than £5.
74. tense: They thought God had sent the disaster to the earth to punish the people.
75. w: Landlords paid for passages so that their tenants were able to emigrate to other English-speaking countries.
76. w: Mary Barrett was the older/elder sister.
77. w: Mary asked the parish priest or the local schoolmaster to write a letter for her to her parents. ("Family" means "[husband and] child[ren]. start a family = have children)
78. w: Mary begged/implored her parents to take her and her family out of the poverty island and not to let them die of/from hunger.
79. w: The so-called penal laws imposed numerous restrictions on Catholics. For example, they were not allowed to own land or buy a horse worth more than £5.
80. w: The underlying reason was the political, economic and denominational oppression by the English Crown.
81. w.o.: "Go away" and "leave" are used in a more general way .
82. w.o.: "Country" also means land which is outside towns.
83. w.o.: A blight caused the potato plants to die.
84.
w.o.: It is also possible that they were on a ship to
85.
w.o.: In her letter Mary described the situation in
86. w.o.: The word "leave" can also be used. / "Departed" can also be replaced by "left".
87. w.o.: Mary probably had to help her parents with the harvests and that is why she could not go to school.
88.
w.o.: Sir Charles Trevelyan, the director of the
government's Irish relief measures, reacted inadequately to the catastrophe in
89. w.o.: The British government had at first underestimated the seriousness of the situation.
90. w.o.: In its severity and scope, this catastrophe was unique in Irish history.
91. wordiness: A farmer raises large crops in order to sell them at a profit.
92. wordiness: But since their farm generates no cash income, the Barretts haven't got any money to send (to) their daughter.
93.
wordiness:
Charles Trevelyan believed that the famine was a blessing since it stopped the
population explosion in
94.
wordiness:
Shortly after they had gone to
95. wordiness: They died from/of diseases.