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Last year's JLPT tests were made available for download recently, and so to
gauge my progress and plan what to study I decided to take the N2 test. I'm
right at the threshold of passing (58% overall raw score), so this is in large
part an effort to try and figure out how to pick up some points in a section
that is killing me.

Specifically, it's the section of the test where they give you a sentence with
four blanks and a star in the third blank. Your objective is to put the
clauses in answers 1-4 in order and choose the number corresponding to the
starred spot. Unfortunately the answer key only said which one was the right
answer, so in the spots I missed I've got little way of telling where I went
wrong.

The first question, and my accompanying logic when I took the test, are as
follows. Please help me understand where my logic is off.

> 問い１： 不調だった山中【やまなか】選手がついにゴールを決めた。彼に_ **_ __** * ___ _相当あったはずだ。
>
>   1. したら
>   2. という
>   3. プレッシャーは
>   4. 「もし、またミスしたら」
>

At the time I seem to have arranged them as 4-2-1-3, however the answer key
said the correct answer was 2. In light of that, would 3-4-2-1 be correct? It
seems like 2 has to come after 4 on account of the quotative particle と, but
that's all I've got with certainty here.
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grammar jlpt
Trying to make sense of some JLPT practice questions
The correct answer should be 1-4-2-3.

You have probably seen the common structure "〜〜という + Noun" before. 「と」 is a
quotative particle so you have a good choice in #4 with quotation marks to
precede it. So, we have a 4-2 for a start.

The only choice that starts with a noun is #3, making a 4-2-3 an sure bet
already. The only thing you now need to think about is whether to put 「したら」
before or after the 4-2-3.

Since there is no such phrase 「プレッシャーはしたら」 possible, you would put 「したら」 in
front of the 4-2-3. 「Person + にしたら」 makes perfect sense, meaning "to/for
(person)", so 「彼にしたら」 sounds good.
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