These eight original questions mix the four skills, so read each sentence before choosing a rule. Write your correction and a reason, then open the answer.
The lessons are collected in explaining a Malay-language correction. Use the timed original practice session builder to attempt the set against a clock.
Questions 1 to 4: one rule at a time
Question 1. Correct the error: Kertas itu di serahkan kepada guru di pejabat.
Answer
“Di serahkan” becomes diserahkan, because “di” is the passive prefix on the verb “serah”. “Di pejabat” stays apart, because “ke pejabat” makes sense, so it is a preposition.
Question 2. Correct the error: Nama pengetua kami adalah Encik Hamzah.
Answer
A name follows, so the word should be ialah: Nama pengetua kami ialah Encik Hamzah.
Question 3. Correct the error: Tujuan lawatan ini ialah untuk mengenali sejarah tempatan.
Answer
A purpose phrase with “untuk” follows, so the word should be adalah: Tujuan lawatan ini adalah untuk mengenali sejarah tempatan.
Question 4. Rebuild this sentence without changing its meaning: Saya mempunyai satu temu janji dengan doktor gigi.
Answer
The claim is that the speaker has an appointment with a dentist. A natural version is Saya ada temu janji dengan doktor gigi.
“Mempunyai satu” copies the English “have an”, and Malay does not need the number.
Questions 5 to 8: explain and check
Question 5. Rebuild without changing the claim: Ia adalah mustahil untuk siap dalam sejam.
Answer
The claim is that finishing within an hour is impossible. The sentence copies “It is impossible to”. A natural version is Mustahil untuk siap dalam sejam.
Do not write “Kita tidak boleh siap dalam sejam”. That changes “impossible” into “cannot”, which is a different claim.
Question 6. A student changed Laporan itu saya tulis semalam. to Laporan itu ditulis oleh saya semalam. Was this a correction?
Answer
No. The original was correct. With a first-person doer, the passive puts the pronoun before the bare verb. The edit used a third-person pattern, “ditulis oleh”, and introduced a new error.
Question 7. Correct the four errors: Pelajar itu di minta duduk dibangku. Beberapa buku-buku terletak diatas meja.
Answer
- “di minta” becomes diminta (passive prefix).
- “dibangku” becomes di bangku (preposition before a place).
- “beberapa buku-buku” becomes beberapa buku (the doubled plural).
- “diatas” becomes di atas (preposition).
Question 8. Explain in one sentence why Ahli jawatankuasa kami ialah Liyana. needs no change.
Answer
A name follows the word, so “ialah” is correct. It links the subject to a noun, and there is no error to correct.
If you got these wrong
- Questions 1 and 7 test di as a prefix or a preposition.
- Questions 2, 3 and 8 test choosing ialah or adalah.
- Questions 4 and 5 test fixing a borrowed English construction.
- Question 6 tests edits that add a new error.
In online one-to-one Bahasa Melayu tuition, a teacher can ask for the rule behind each of your answers.