Question: Turkish (), also referred to as Istanbul Turkish, is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 1015 million native speakers in Southeast Europe (mostly in East and Western Thrace) and 6065 million native speakers in Western Asia (mostly in Anatolia). Outside of Turkey, significant smaller groups of speakers exist in Germany, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Greece, the Caucasus, and other parts of Europe and Central Asia. Cyprus has requested that the European Union add Turkish as an official EU language, even though Turkey is not a member state.

To the west, the influence of Ottoman Turkishthe variety of the Turkish language that was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empirespread as the Ottoman Empire expanded. In 1928, as one of Ataturk's Reforms in the early years of the Republic of Turkey, the Ottoman Turkish alphabet was replaced with a Latin alphabet.

The distinctive characteristics of the Turkish language are vowel harmony and extensive agglutination. The basic word order of Turkish is subjectobjectverb. Turkish has no noun classes or grammatical gender. The language has a strong TV distinction and usage of honorifics. Turkish uses second-person pronouns that distinguish varying levels of politeness, social distance, age, courtesy or familiarity toward the addressee. The plural second-person pronoun and verb forms are used referring to a single person out of respect. 1. what language is the article about?
2. is it called something else?
3. what?
4. what countries do most people who speak it in South Eastern Europe live?
5. how many of them are there?
6. is it used in places other than Europe?
7. what makes it distinct?
8. in what order are words used?
9. what happened in 1928?
10. who did that? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Turkish
2. yes
3. Istanbul Turkish
4. East and Western Thrace
5. 1015 million
6. yes
7. vowel harmony and extensive agglutination
8. subjectobjectverb.
9. Ottoman Turkish alphabet was replaced with a Latin alphabet.
10. Ottoman Empire

Question: Alice needs some money for a Mother's Day present. She tells her father about her problem. "I'll pay you to do some housework. You can clean up the yard ," her father says. "You can also wash my car and Mum's. Both of them need to be washed because they're really dirty." Alice works on the yard and washes her father's car. "Too bad! You didn't have time to wash Mum's car," Dad says when he pays her. The next morning Alice wakes up early. First she washes her mother's car. Then she goes to the flower shop. She also buys her mother's favourite bread on her way home. After breakfast Alice asks her mother to go to the garage . She opens the gate. "Wow!" Alice's mother says. "My car is _ ." "Open the door," Alice says. Alice's mother opens the door. There on the seat she sees a bunch of flowers. "Happy Mother's Day!" Alice says. 1. Who opened the door?
2. What did she see?
3. How many?
4. Who needed money?
5. Why?
6. For whom?
7. Who did she tell?
8. Did he offer to help?
9. When did she ask her mom to go to the garage?
10. What did mom open?
11. What did she exclaim?
12. What was opened next?
13. Where was the bouquet?
14. How many cars were there?
15. What was very filthy?
16. Did she get paid?
17. What did she do in the lawn?
18. When did Mom's auto get cleaned?
19. When did she awaken?
20. What else did she buy? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Alice's mother
2. flowers
3. bunch
4. Alice
5. present
6. Mother
7. father
8. yes
9. After breakfast
10. gate
11. Wow
12. door
13. seat
14. Two
15. car
16. yes
17. clean
18. next morning
19. early
20. bread

Question: Emily and her brother Matthew went outside to play. They brought their dog Bo with them, too. Bo was holding a bone in her mouth. Matthew threw a ball and Bo chased after it. Emily laughed as Bo ran away. Bo brought the ball back to Matthew. Then Bo barked. This time Emily threw the ball. She was younger than Matthew, so the ball did not go as far. Bo chased after the ball anyway, and Emily laughed again. Matthew smiled at his little sister. Bo ran back to Emily and dropped the ball at her feet. Then Bo wagged her tail and licked Emily's face. Emily giggled and scratched Bo's ears. Then Matthew and Emily's mother came outside holding a bar of soap. She told them that it was time for dinner and they had to come inside and wash their hands. Just then, Matthew and Emily's dad came home from work. Matthew and Emily ran to their dad. They all walked inside together and Bo followed them in. They would have to play ball tomorrow. 1. what is the canine's name?
2. what did she have?
3. where?
4. who returned from a job?
5. were they happy to see him?
6. who tossed a round object?
7. did he toss it to someone?
8. who?
9. was he vocal?
10. who is the younger sibling? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers: 1. Bo
2. a bone
3. in her mouth
4. their dad
5. Yes
6. Matthew
7. Yes
8. Bo
9. yes
10. Emily

Question: It is Mother's Day. John is busy with his work during the day. When he passes by a flower shop in the evening, he thinks, 'I'll send Mum some roses .' While John is looking at the flowers, a young man comes inside. 'How many roses can I buy for only five dollars , madam?' he asks. The shopkeeper tells him that a dozen of roses is forty dollars. Maybe he can buy some carnations . They are much cheaper. 'No, I only want to have red roses,' he says. 'My mum was badly ill and I didn't spend much time with her. Now I want to give her something special, it must be roses because rose is her favorite.' After hearing it, John says he can help him pay for the rest of the money. The shopkeeper is moved and says, 'Well, lovely young men, thirty dollars a dozen, only for you.' Taking the roses, the young man almost jumps into the air and runs out of the shop. Then John pays for his dozen of roses and tells the shopkeeper to send them to his mother. As he walks out, he feels nice. Suddenly he sees the young man crossing the street and going into a park. But soon John knows it is not a park but a cemetery . Crying, the young man carefully puts down the roses, 'Mum, oh, Mum, why didn't I tell you how much I loved you? God, please help me find my mum and tell her I love her.' Seeing this, John turns and quickly walks to the shop. He will take the flowers home himself. 1. How much is a dozen of roses?
2. Does the man have forty dollars?
3. Where does the man go?
4. What day is it?
5. Who stops by the florist in the evening?
6. For what?
7. Why didn't he go earlier in the day?
8. Where did he think the other man was going?
9. What did the florist suggest the man buy instead of roses?
10. Why?
11. Why did the man decline?
12. Why did he want to give them to her?
13. For what?
14. Who helped him pay for the flowers?
15. What did John ask the florist to do with the roses he bought?
16. Did he overhear the man in the cemetery?
17. What did he hear the man doing?
18. Did the man say anything?
19. What did he say?
20. Who else did he talk to? Provide a numbered list of answers.
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A numbered of answers:
1. forty dollars
2. He pays thirty for them
3. a cemetery
4. Mother's Day
5. John
6. send his Mum some roses
7. He was working during the day
8. a park
9. carnations
10. They are much cheaper
11. rose is his mom's favorite
12. She was badly ill and he felt bad
13. He didn't spend much time with her
14. John
15. send them to his mother
16. Yes.
17. Crying
18. YEs.
19. Mum, oh, Mum, why didn't I tell you how much I loved you?
20. God