Preview（腕試し）

Yukie: Please wait for me on home 5. I'll be there at 6:00.

Scott: Do you mean on your house or on the subway platform?

Yukie means:

A. on her house

B. on the train platform

C. in her house

D. on home plate (She's a baseball player.)

Examples（例文）

In English, you can only call a platform a platform. If you say home, it sounds as if you are talking about someone's house! (In Japanese, hoomu can mean either house or platform.)

The train for Nagoya is leaving from platform number 13.

　

Exercises （練習）

1. Please choose the best answer.

Please meet me on ____________ number 5 at six o'clock and I'll take you to a good restaurant near the station. After that, we can go to my ____________ and watch a video.

A. platform / form

B. platform / home

C. home / platform

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2. (Grammar!) Choose the word that makes the sentence unnatural.

　

platform the train Tokyo from?