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N2 Study Past Exam Paper Questions Thread - stevesayskanpai - 2010-11-01
Hi! Me again. I thought I'd start a new thread for the overlap into past paper questions that I don't understand. Hopefully this will be useful for anyone who is preparing for the N2 test in 5 weeks.
To start the thread off, I have two questions:
ゆうべ徹夜(てつや)したので、______。
１．眠くないではいられない ２．眠いものではない ３．眠くてはいられない ４．眠くてしょうがない
Could this not be (1) as much as (4)?
こんな単純な作業を３時間も続けるのは、つらい______。
１．くらいだ ２．ものがある ３．あまりだ ４．ほかない
Don't both (2) and (3) make sense here?
N2 Study Past Exam Paper Questions Thread - captal - 2010-11-01
Where did you find the past exam paper? I think there are a few of us that would love a copy
N2 Study Past Exam Paper Questions Thread - pm215 - 2010-11-02
stevesayskanpai Wrote:ゆうべ徹夜(てつや)したので、______。Vないではいられない meaning "can't help Ving" only works with verbs. 眠い here is an adjective. You could have 眠らないではいられない from 眠る, which gets a modest number of google hits.
１．眠くないではいられない ２．眠いものではない ３．眠くてはいられない ４．眠くてしょうがない
Could this not be (1) as much as (4)?
Quote:こんな単純な作業を３時間も続けるのは、つらい______。Three reasons why あまり doesn't work here:
１．くらいだ ２．ものがある ３．あまりだ ４．ほかない
Don't both (2) and (3) make sense here?
(1) This sort of あまり takes verbs (将来を思うあまり), nouns (驚きのあまり) and na-adjectives (熱心なあまり) but not i-adjectives. You'd have to turn it into a noun, like つらさのあまり or 忙しさのあまり.
(2) The "classic" pattern for あまり is as a kind of adverbial clause, as in 驚きのあまり、声も出なかった "I was so surprised I couldn't speak", where the following phrase describes the effects of the excess of whatever-it-is. あまり at the end of a sentence is rather rarer (eg google has 8000 hits for つらさのあまり and none for つらさのあまりだ.)
(3) It means "extreme", "an excess of", so meaning-wise it's out of place here. Doing something simple and mind-numbing for three hours is kind of painful, not incredibly painful (unless you're being sarcastic, which the JLPT test setters generally are not).