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This is a test for 6 year olds. How would you score? DD (aged 6) got a D.

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Greythorne · 09/02/2014 22:42

This is the question:

  1. Rewrite the correct sentences.

    a) Mum goes to work on the train.
    b) what lovely weather!
    c) We're singing in the rain
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pixiepotter · 09/02/2014 22:46

what? it doesn't make sense!

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breatheslowly · 09/02/2014 22:46

I don't want to look stupid...

a) I think the sentence is fine
b) What lovely weather! but I don't think it is actually a sentence - where is the verb/
c) We're singing in the rain.

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Binkyridesagain · 09/02/2014 22:47

Eh?

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breatheslowly · 09/02/2014 22:47

Is there any more to the test?

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MrsRuffdiamond · 09/02/2014 22:48

I don't think I would score very highly. I don't even understand what I'm supposed to do!

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Gileswithachainsaw · 09/02/2014 22:49

Well I'm failing to. What's the actual question?

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Marcipex · 09/02/2014 22:49

Is that it?
1- seems fine to me.
2-needs a capital.
3-needs a full stop.

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PeteCampbellsRecedingHairline · 09/02/2014 22:49

What ^^ they all said!

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BoyFromTheBigBadCity · 09/02/2014 22:49

Sentence a) is fine surely? Or is the problem that it is unclear if Mum travels to work on the train or is working on the train itself?

Then What a lovely day! needs punctuation and We're singing in the rain. needs a full stop... I couldn't even read aged 6 though.

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CocktailQueen · 09/02/2014 22:50

How can you get a D in that??

Clarify, please, OP!

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LettertoHermioneGranger · 09/02/2014 22:50

This is a little silly, I think they're all fine depending on context, with the exception being the capital letter in the second sentence and the period in the third.

I suppose
Mum takes the train to work. - to avoid confusion that she might do work on the train.
The weather is lovely! Perhaps a little more 'correct' but was fine before.
We're singing in the rain.

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HadABadDay2014 · 09/02/2014 22:50

A) looks right to me.
B) I think needs a capital letter
C) Needs a full stop.

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Floggingmolly · 09/02/2014 22:50

Does b) need a capital letter? Hmm. I probably got a D too

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serant · 09/02/2014 22:50

6yr old? I don't know what to do...

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Longdistance · 09/02/2014 22:50

Mum goes on a train to work?

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TeenageAdvice15 · 09/02/2014 22:51

Rewrite the correct sentances.
They are all correct so don't need changing, just copying out again.

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BrianTheMole · 09/02/2014 22:51

There must be more to it than this Confused

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Longdistance · 09/02/2014 22:51

What lovely weather?

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usernameunknown · 09/02/2014 22:52
  1. Seems fine


The others should obviously be.

  1. What shitty British weather.
  2. We're pissed off with the rain.
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Marcipex · 09/02/2014 22:52

No, the weather is lousy?

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snowqu33n · 09/02/2014 22:52

by train

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ComposHat · 09/02/2014 22:52

Eh?

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TeenageAdvice15 · 09/02/2014 22:53

It's a trick question

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Marcipex · 09/02/2014 22:53

X post usernameunknown

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PeteCampbellsRecedingHairline · 09/02/2014 22:54
  1. Mum would go to work on the train but the line has been destroyed by flooding.
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