School of Education, Culture and Communication Teaching Grammar in efl classrooms in Swedish Upper-Secondary School

3.2.1 The use of the “of-phrase”
In the teaching sessions, the term used for describing the form in examples such as the roof of the house was the “of-phrase”, which Swan (2005, p. 415) refers to as “a structure with a preposition (usually of)”. Because the word of was so central to the whole concept of the “of-phrase”, there were a few answers which were deemed not to be correct. The test question was as follows

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The fourth _______________ is about plants and herbs.

book – chapter

(cf. appendix 3)

In this question, the aim was for the informant to answer The fourth chapter of the book is about plants and herbs. However, there were three tests which contained the answer “The fourth chapter in the book is about plants and herbs”, which was marked as incorrect in relation to the task at hand, even though it means practically the same thing as the expected solution.