>>373 違うだろ。も舞いのリンクしたさいとの↓を参照ね。 To see if you need to make a possessive, turn the phrase around and make it an "of the..." phrase. For example: three days' journey = journey of three days とおなじで after some five minutes' walk = after some walk of five minutesということ。
(A) "The station was reached after some five minute's walk." (note: This is an extremely strange sentence. Better would be: "I (He, She, We, etc.) reached the station on foot in five mintues." Use of the passive tense in a sentence like this should be avoided altogether.
(B) "vacuum-cleaner" should be "vacuum cleaner" or simply "vacuum." The phrase "...The used vacuum-cleaner..." is a strange and unnatural locution. The entire phrase would best be rendered: "After using the vacuum cleaner, put it back where it was." OR "You (one) should put the vacuum cleaner back where it was after use." OR some other such active voice locution. Again, the passive voice is best avoided here.
Sorry, I was tricked by "five minutes' walk." I corrected it to "five minute's walk." In fact, no apostrophy is needed at all, therefore "five minutes walk" is correct.
I apologise if my tone sounds teacherly or condescending, but I am a native speaker of English, and the sentences from this test sound rather like carefully contrived DIRECT translations from Japanese sentences. Direct translations may carry the overall meaning of the sentence or phrase, but they make for very strange English. I have observed over the years many such strange sentences in the Eiken test and University English Examinations. It is abundantly clear that these tests are NEVER screened by native speakers, or, indeed, any Japanese people who are truly fluent in English. I have heard in the past that suggestions for corrections to such tests have been ignored. This is very unfair to apanese students of English.
As I just mentioned, I am a native speaker. I am flattered to hear you say that you are impressed by my explanation. Thank you. I wish you very good luck in your studies, but I am confident that your English is very good, and it will get better.
if you don't put the vacuume back to where it was, i will take it away from you and stick it up your ass and pull the fucking trigger till it goes 'click.' "jesus..." "you said it, man. nobody fucks with the jesus."