N5 Grammar · Test 11

The subject marker が with 人 ('people') requires an intransitive verb. ならんでいます (並んでいます) is the intransitive ています form meaning 'are lined up / are standing in line.' So 'たくさん人がならんでいますね' = 'A lot of people are lined up, aren't they.'

• 1ならんであります – 並んである is not a standard/natural form; ある generally pairs with transitive て-form (〜てある), not with the intransitive 並ぶ.
• 2ならべています – 並べる is transitive ('to arrange/line up something'). With 人が it would mean 'people are arranging (something),' which does not fit the context of people being lined up.
• 4ならべてあります – 並べてある means 'has been arranged (by someone),' a transitive pattern. It does not describe people standing in line by themselves.

• 並ならぶ — to line up, to stand in a row (intransitive)
• 並ならべる — to line up, to arrange (transitive)
• 〜てあります — state resulting from someone's intentional action (transitive verb)
• 〜ています — ongoing state/result (often with intransitive verbs)

どこで means 'where (do you)…'. 'どこでえいがを見ますか' = 'Where do you watch movies?' どこ (where)＋で (location particle) is the natural question word for a place of action.

• 2どんなで – どんな ('what kind of') cannot be followed by で to ask a place; どんな would modify a noun (どんなえいが).
• 3どうで – どう ('how')＋で is not natural here; to ask 'how' you would use どう（やって）, not どうで.
• 4どのか – not a grammatical question word; the correct place question word is どこ.

• どこ — where
• どんな — what kind of
• どう — how

何も＋negative = 'not…anything / nothing.' 'わたしは何も買いませんでした' = 'I didn't buy anything.' This is the standard pattern for total negation with a negative verb.

• 1どれを – 'which (object)'＋を would ask 'which one did I not buy,' but with わたしは it does not form a natural statement; it would be a question, not a declarative sentence.
• 2いくら – 'how much' does not fit grammatically or semantically before 買いませんでした in a plain statement.
• 3何か – 何か＋negative is contradictory/unnatural; 何か ('something') is used with affirmative verbs. With a negative you use 何も.

• 何なにも — (not) anything, nothing (with negative verb)
• 何なにか — something (with affirmative verb)
• 買かう — to buy

ごろ is used with clock time/clock expressions to mean 'around/about (time).' '9時ごろかえります' = 'I'll return around 9 o'clock.' ごろ is the correct suffix for approximate time points.

• 1じゅう – 'ten' does not fit after 9時; it is not a time approximation particle.
• 2まで – 9時まで means 'until 9 o'clock.' While grammatically possible, the natural reading 'I'll return around 9' calls for ごろ; まで would mean staying until 9 then returning, a different nuance.
• 4ぐらい – ぐらい expresses approximate quantity/amount, not approximate time-of-day. For approximate clock time, ごろ is used (9時ごろ).

• 〜ごろ — around (a time), about (o'clock)
• 〜まで — until
• 〜ぐらい — about, approximately (quantity/amount)

きませんか is the negative question form used as an invitation: 'Won't you come…?' 'あしたわたしのへやへあそびにきませんか' = 'Won't you come to my room to hang out tomorrow?' This is the standard invitation pattern.

• 1きてください – 'please come.' きてください cannot be followed by か; 'きてくださいか' is ungrammatical.
• 2きました – past tense 'came.' Does not fit 'tomorrow' (あした), which refers to the future.
• 4きましょうか – 'shall we come?' This would include the speaker as a co-actor, but the situation is the listener coming to the speaker's room, so an invitation to the other person (きませんか) is appropriate.

• 来くる — to come
• 〜ませんか — won't you…? (invitation)
• 遊びに来る（あそびにくる） — to come to play/hang out

The sentence means 'I drank all the milk, so there is no more.' もう ありません means 'there is no longer any / there is none left.' Since the speaker drank everything, もう (already/no more) fits perfectly.

• 1とても means 'very' and cannot precede ありません in this context to mean 'none left.'
• 2もっと means 'more'; もっとありません is not a natural expression and does not fit the meaning.
• 3まだ means 'still'; まだありません means 'not yet,' which contradicts the fact that all the milk was already drunk.

• ぎゅうにゅう — milk
• ぜんぶ — all, entirely
• もう — already; no more (with negative)
• まだ — still; not yet (with negative)