AES EL Prelims 2021 Sec 4E5N Paper 1 Answer Scheme

ASSUMPTION ENGLISH SCHOOL PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION 2021 ENGLISH LANGUAGE (1128/01) SECONDARY 4 EXPRESS AND 5 NORMAL (ACADEMIC) ANSWER SCHEME 1128/4E5NA/PRELIMS/2021 Section A [10 marks] Carefully read the text below, consisting of 12 lines , about the food delivery. The first and last line s are correct. For eight of the lines, there is one grammatical error in each line. There are two more lines with no errors. If there is NO error in a line, put a tick (✓) in the space provided. If the line is incorrect, circle the incorrect word and write the correct word in the space provided. The correct word you provide must not change the original meaning of the sentence. Examples: I arrived to my destination at 2 pm. ………at…..... My mother always wears sensible clothes. …………........ In the past, many families in Singapore did not have the habit of ordering in. Fast forward from the early 2000s when pizza and fast 1 to (preposition) food could be ordered through a tele-operator. You just need to 2 needed (tense) have the flyers handy. The state of the food delivery landscape 3 ✓ remained as such until the 2010s where the gig economy started to 4 when (r. pronoun) took off and brought us operators such as foodpanda, Deliveroo and 5 take (to-infinitive) GrabFood. However, using these apps in their early years were not as 6 was (SVA) smoothed an experience as it is today. You needed reservoirs of 7 smooth (word form) patience to put on with technical glitches and less than stellar customer 8 up (preposition) service. The recent pandemic has made this food deliver culture more 9 delivery (word form) of a normality than novelty. Food vendors too are increasingly joining 10 ✓ these platforms to gain access to the largely digitalised customer base. Adapted from https://www.channelnewsasia.com ---------- End of Answer Scheme ---------- ✓