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www.guardian.co.uk/teacher-network/teacher-blog/quiz/2013/feb/04/grammar-punctuation-quiz-test

Am relieved I scored 14 out of 14, since I am a Literacy cordinator!

I only knew what a gerund was because I remembered it from the English Language unit I had to study for my Lit degree - not sure it is of much use to your average 11 year old, really.

9/14. <stands in corner with dunces hat on>

<stands with Sparkling for mistyping coordinator>

<loses points for not noticing mispelling>

11.
I've let myself down and I've let grammar down.

13 out of 14. Think I got the gerund one wrong.

11/14. I confused the abstract and collective nouns.

Full marks. One of the nouns questions was unnecessarily tricky, I think.

14/14 here too.
But I'm old and have an English degree.

14/14 - am a secondary English teacher so I should really!

I am still bottom of the class. I got an English Language A at GCSE many moons ago. I need a refresher course.

13 - phew. I nearly got 14 but doubted myself.

11. I am a child of the sixties and never had a grammar lesson in my life. I know what sounds right but not why....

14.

Filled with (abstract) pride

I got 14 correct too. I would add that I hadn't come across some of the terms before, but it was just a matter of common sense to quickly work out.
This is year six standard, though?

10/14, also a child of the '60s so was not taught grammar (I'm also a primary teacher!)

12/14
Forgot that one of the nouns could be collective as well as abstract
Failed the 'active voice'

I don't recall my 1960s Grammar School's English grammar lessons going into quite such technical detail. Certainly didn't have to know this sort of thing for the 11+.

Poor Y6s

10!

I scored 9 (I'm a TA ) using mainly common sense and what "felt" right. I don't remember being taught grammar (beyond the very basics) at school.

<hugs thorn>

14.

<punches air>

11/14 I got the three before the last question wrong.

I learned more about grammar from learning foreign languages than I did in English lessons.

This dunces hat is bloody uncomfortable.

10 another child of the 60s not taught grammar at all at school.