N4 Grammar · Test 48

いけませんね is the correct response. When someone tells you they are sick (fever, headache), a natural sympathetic reply is 'それはいけませんね' meaning 'That's too bad / That's awful.' いけません is the negative potential form of いける (to be acceptable / to be okay), and here it expresses concern: 'that's not good.'

• 1おげんきで means 'please stay healthy' and is used as a farewell wish when someone is leaving or in letters. It is completely inappropriate when someone has just told you they are sick.
• 3かしこまりました means 'certainly / I understand' and is a polite formula used by shop staff or subordinates accepting an order or request. It does not fit a conversation about illness.
• 4しつれいします means 'excuse me' and is used when entering/leaving a room or ending a phone call. It is not a sympathetic reply to someone reporting illness.

• いけません — that's no good; that's bad (expression of concern)
• おげんきで — please take care of yourself (farewell greeting)
• かしこまりました — certainly; I understand (polite acceptance)
• しつれいします — excuse me (polite leave-taking)

前の家より会社に近くなりました is correct. Nakata says the new house now takes only 40 minutes by train, compared to 1.5 hours before. This means the new house is closer to the company. より ('compared to') + 近くなりました ('became closer') correctly expresses that the new house is closer than the old one.

• 2前の家ほど会社に近くなりました uses ほど with an affirmative sentence. ほど ('as much as / to the extent of') is normally used with negatives (〜ほど〜ない = 'not as ___ as'). With an affirmative 近くなりました, this sentence is ungrammatical and meaningless.
• 3前の家より会社から遠くなりました means 'became farther from the company than the old house.' This contradicts the context: the commute shortened from 1.5 hours to 40 minutes, so the new house is closer, not farther.
• 4前の家ほど会社から遠くなりました combines ほど with an affirmative, which is ungrammatical. Even if it were grammatical, it would contradict the context.

• 〜より — compared to; more than
• 〜ほど — as ~ as (used with negative: ほど〜ない)
• 近ちかくなる — to become close/near
• 遠とおくなる — to become far/distant

買い物にふべんでも is correct. Yamakawa is commenting on what makes a good house location and says '(イ) I think near a park would be good.' The 〜ても ('even if') structure here means 'even if it's inconvenient for shopping, I think being near a park is good.' Yamakawa is prioritizing the park over shopping convenience, so ふべんでも (even if inconvenient) fits the logic: shopping convenience isn't everything.

• 1買い物にべんりでも means 'even if it's convenient for shopping.' If shopping were convenient, that would be a positive point, but the sentence structure with 〜ても suggests a concession — something that might seem negative but is acceptable. Saying 'even if it's convenient for shopping, I think near a park is good' doesn't make logical sense as a concession.
• 3テニスコートがあっても means 'even if there's a tennis court.' This doesn't connect logically to 'I think near a park would be good.' A tennis court and a park are different things, and having a tennis court wouldn't be a concession against a park.
• 4テニスコートが近くても means 'even if a tennis court is close.' Similar to option 3, this doesn't form a logical concession leading to the recommendation of living near a park.

• 〜ても — even if; even though
• 便利べんり — convenient
• 不便ふべん — inconvenient
• テニスコート — tennis court

あそびに来てください is correct. Nakata is inviting Yamakawa to come to his (Nakata's) house. Since Nakata is the host, the direction of movement is toward Nakata, so 来る (to come) is used. 〜に来てください means 'please come (to my place) to play/hang out.' This is a natural invitation.

• 1あそんで きましょう means 'let's come play.' The 〜ましょう form suggests 'let's do X together,' but the speaker is the host inviting the listener, not suggesting they both come together. Also, あそんで来る is less natural than あそびに来る.
• 2あそんで いきましょう means 'let's go play.' 行く (to go) indicates movement away from the speaker, but Nakata is inviting Yamakawa to his own home, so the direction should be toward Nakata (来る). Also, 〜ましょう is a suggestion, not an invitation to the listener.
• 4あそびに 行ってください means 'please go play (somewhere).' 行く indicates movement away from the speaker. Since Nakata is inviting Yamakawa to his own house, the correct verb is 来る (to come toward the speaker), not 行く.

• 遊びに来る（あそびにくる） — to come to play/visit
• 〜てください — please do ~ (request)
• 来くる — to come (toward speaker)
• 行いく — to go (away from speaker)

友だちがタローをくれました is correct. The passage states 'タローは去年わたしが友だちからもらったかわいい子犬です' — 'Taro is a cute puppy that I received from a friend last year.' The speaker (わたし) received Taro from a friend. When describing this same event from the friend's perspective, the friend gave Taro to the speaker, which uses くれる: 友だちが（わたしに）タローをくれました. くれる is used when someone gives something to the speaker or the speaker's in-group.

• 2友だちがタローをもらいました means 'a friend received Taro.' This reverses the direction. The passage says the speaker received Taro from the friend, not that the friend received Taro.
• 3友だちにタローをあげました means 'I gave Taro to a friend.' This reverses the direction entirely — the speaker received Taro from the friend, not gave Taro to the friend.
• 4友だちにタローをくれました is grammatically incorrect. くれる means 'someone gives to me/the speaker,' so the giver must be marked with が, not に. The correct form would be 友だちがタローをくれました (option 1).

• もらう — to receive (from someone)
• くれる — someone gives (to me/the speaker)
• あげる — to give (to someone else)
• 子犬こいぬ — puppy

Option 3 (いく) forms 変わっていく, meaning 'continue to change (over time / into the future).' The auxiliary verb 〜ていく indicates a process that continues or progresses in a direction away from the present. The sentence means 'When autumn comes, the leaves gradually change color and keep changing.'

• 1みる forms 変わってみる, meaning 'try changing (and see what happens).' This doesn't fit the context of a natural seasonal process that unfolds on its own.
• 2おく forms 変わっておく, meaning 'change in advance / change as preparation.' This implies intentional action for future benefit, which doesn't fit a natural phenomenon.
• 4ある forms 変わってある, which is ungrammatical. 〜てある (resultant state) is only used with transitive verbs, but 変わる is intransitive.

• 変かわる — to change (intransitive)
• 〜ていく — (auxiliary) to continue doing something; to change/progress over time

The correct answer is 4 (か). The sentence means 'Please tell me where to buy a ticket.' When you embed a question (containing a question word like どこ) inside another sentence, you must use か before the verb of telling/asking (教える, 聞く, etc.). The pattern is: (question word + plain form) + か + (verb). Here, どこで買う + か + 教えてください.

• 1と is not used to embed questions. と is used for quoting direct speech (e.g., 「…」と言う) or for conditional 'when/if,' but not for indirect questions like 'where to buy.'
• 2も means 'also/too' and does not connect a question clause to 教えてください.
• 3を marks a direct object, but an embedded question clause cannot be the direct object of 教える with を. The correct linker for embedded questions is か.

• きっぷ — ticket
• 教おしえる — to teach, to tell
• 〜か (embedded question) — whether/if (links an embedded question to the main clause)

Option 1 (と) is correct. The pattern 〜と here expresses a condition/trigger: 'when you do ~, ...'. ちょっと見ると means 'when you look briefly' (it seems easy, but it's actually difficult). The と conditional is used for natural or habitual sequences — 'when X happens, Y is the case.'

• 2ば is a conditional (〜ば meaning 'if'), but it requires the 仮定形 (conditional stem) of a verb, not the dictionary form. ちょっと見るば is ungrammatical; it would need to be 見れば.
• 3が is the subject marker. ちょっと見るが would mean 'I look briefly, but...' — a contrastive conjunction, which does not fit the sentence structure here (there is no contrasting clause before かんたんそう).
• 4は is the topic marker. ちょっと見るは does not form a grammatical construction that leads into かんたんそう. The と conditional is what links the two clauses.

• ちょっと見る（ちょっとみる） — to take a quick look
• 〜と — when/if (conditional expressing a natural sequence)
• かんたんそう — seems easy (簡単 + そう)
• むずかしい — difficult

Option 4 (なら) is correct. なら is a conditional/topic particle meaning 'if you're talking about ~' or 'as for ~'. みちこならもう出かけましたけれど means 'If it's Michiko you're asking about, she has already gone out.' This is the natural response when someone asks whether a specific person is available — なら picks up the topic mentioned by the caller.

• 1が would make みちこがもう出かけました, meaning 'Michiko (as the subject) already left.' While grammatically possible, it does not convey the natural 'as for ~' topic-shifting nuance that なら provides in this conversational context. The speaker is responding to a request about Michiko, so なら (topic conditional) is the idiomatic choice.
• 2を marks the direct object of a transitive verb. 出かける is intransitive, so を cannot be used here. みちこをもう出かけました is ungrammatical.
• 3でも means 'even ~'. みちこでももう出かけました would mean 'even Michiko has already left,' implying surprise that Michiko (among others) left. This does not fit the context of simply answering whether Michiko is available.

• 〜なら — if it's ~; as for ~ (topic conditional, picks up a mentioned topic)
• いらっしゃる — to be (honorific); to be present
• 出でかける — to go out; to leave