Repair Agreement without Replacing the Noun
A revision should change the incorrect article/adjective feature while keeping the intended noun and referent.
About 25 minutes, plus any extended practice
Supplied materials
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- Repair only the adjective in this flawed supplied group while retaining article and noun: “las mesas pequeño”. Which candidate does that? Candidate answers: (A) el libro nuevo (B) la mesa pequeña (C) las mesas pequeñas (D) las mesas pequeño.
- Repair only the adjective in this flawed supplied group while retaining article and noun: “el mapa roja”. Which candidate does that? Candidate answers: (A) el libro nuevo (B) el mapa roja (C) el mapa rojo (D) la mesa pequeña.
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Revision checks more than fluent appearance. A corrected message should preserve its assigned speaker, referent and intended relationship while fixing a precise agreement, accent or register problem. Use only the fictional texts supplied here. A revision should change the incorrect article/adjective feature while keeping the intended noun and referent. Read the noun group’s actual gender/number evidence rather than rewrite the whole sentence with an unrelated easier phrase.
Locate the given article and noun first. Determine their gender and number, then adjust the descriptive o/a adjective to agree. Compare the corrected group with the original to ensure the noun has not been replaced.
An unrelated grammatical phrase is not a faithful repair. Exceptions such as masculine el mapa remain masculine despite the noun’s final a. The task uses the supplied regular adjective model and does not claim every adjective changes for gender.
- Copy the supplied example and underline its speaker, noun, time cue or evidence words.
- Apply the shown language rule; keep any required ending, accent or paired punctuation.
- Solve the changed independent check, then explain why one offered alternative fails.
- Complete all three new practice cases and use the model to correct the precise word or meaning.
See the method in action
Supplied case: Repair only the adjective in this flawed supplied group while retaining article and noun: “las mesas pequeño”. Which candidate does that? Candidate answers: (A) el libro nuevo (B) la mesa pequeña (C) las mesas pequeñas (D) las mesas pequeño. Solution: The original article/noun fixes the referent and its gender/number. Adjust the adjective to produce las mesas pequeñas. The unchanged phrase retains the error; an unrelated correctly formed group fails to preserve the supplied noun. Final result: las mesas pequeñas. An unrelated grammatical phrase is not a faithful repair. Exceptions such as masculine el mapa remain masculine despite the noun’s final a. The task uses the supplied regular adjective model and does not claim every adjective changes for gender.
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Helpful tips
- Locate the given article and noun first.
- An unrelated grammatical phrase is not a faithful repair.
See the answer and explanation
el mapa rojo
The original article/noun fixes the referent and its gender/number. Adjust the adjective to produce el mapa rojo. The unchanged phrase retains the error; an unrelated correctly formed group fails to preserve the supplied noun.
Take it further
Repair only the adjective in this flawed supplied group while retaining article and noun: “la casa pequeño”. Which candidate does that? Candidate answers: (A) el libro nuevo (B) la casa pequeña (C) la casa pequeño (D) la mesa pequeña. Expected result: la casa pequeña. The original article/noun fixes the referent and its gender/number. Adjust the adjective to produce la casa pequeña. The unchanged phrase retains the error; an unrelated correctly formed group fails to preserve the supplied noun.
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