Help with a compound word question?
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Help with a compound word question?
There was a really odd compound question on one of the Bright Sparks papers.
My daughter marked 'log' and 'in' to make login but the answer was 'leg' and 'end' to make legend.
Surely they are both correct? Although I know 'login' can be a bit ambiguous, it is a word.
Just hoping the actual test does not have questions like this and wonder if anyone can shed any light on this?
My daughter marked 'log' and 'in' to make login but the answer was 'leg' and 'end' to make legend.
Surely they are both correct? Although I know 'login' can be a bit ambiguous, it is a word.
Just hoping the actual test does not have questions like this and wonder if anyone can shed any light on this?
Re: Help with a compound word question?
Login isn't one word, it's two, which is why legend is correct and login isn't.
Re: Help with a compound word question?
Maybe when some older papers were written login wasn't a word - but I'd argue that it is now - e.g. from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/login?s=tSnowdrops wrote:Login isn't one word, it's two, which is why legend is correct and login isn't.
login [n. lawg-in, log-; v. lawg-in, log-]
1. the act of logging in to a database, device, or computer, especially a multiuser computer or a remote or networked computer system.
2. a person's username and password that allows them to log in to a computer system, network, device, or user account.
Re: Help with a compound word question?
The problem with login is that I suspect it's a colloquialism and I don't think the 11+ uses them.
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Oxford Dictionaries recognise it too: http://oxforddictionaries.com/definitio ... in?q=login
Is there a date on that paper to give an indication how long ago it might have been written?
Is there a date on that paper to give an indication how long ago it might have been written?
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Re: Help with a compound word question?
SD's Bright Sparks papers certainly date back as far as 2005, but I think I recall them being available even before that.
I agree that "login" has become a compound word since then, so this is just a case of the language evolving while the papers don't keep up. It wouldn't occur on the real papers though.
I agree that "login" has become a compound word since then, so this is just a case of the language evolving while the papers don't keep up. It wouldn't occur on the real papers though.
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The paper is from 2006?
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But if it is, it's one with a near-fifty year history: http://goo.gl/QA81t" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Snowdrops wrote:The problem with login is that I suspect it's a colloquialism and I don't think the 11+ uses them.
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Re: Help with a compound word question?
Hahaa!! Good one Daveg !!