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Original poster

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

160 replies

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

OP posts:
pixiepotter · 09/02/2014 22:46

what? it doesn't make sense!

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.

Binkyridesagain · 09/02/2014 22:47

Eh?

breatheslowly · 09/02/2014 22:47

Is there any more to the test?

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!

Gileswithachainsaw · 09/02/2014 22:49

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

Marcipex · 09/02/2014 22:49

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

PeteCampbellsRecedingHairline · 09/02/2014 22:49

What ^^ they all said!

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.

CocktailQueen · 09/02/2014 22:50

How can you get a D in that??

Clarify, please, OP!

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.

HadABadDay2014 · 09/02/2014 22:50

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

Floggingmolly · 09/02/2014 22:50

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

serant · 09/02/2014 22:50

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

Longdistance · 09/02/2014 22:50

Mum goes on a train to work?

TeenageAdvice15 · 09/02/2014 22:51

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

BrianTheMole · 09/02/2014 22:51

There must be more to it than this Confused

Longdistance · 09/02/2014 22:51

What lovely weather?

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.
Marcipex · 09/02/2014 22:52

No, the weather is lousy?

snowqu33n · 09/02/2014 22:52

by train

ComposHat · 09/02/2014 22:52

Eh?

TeenageAdvice15 · 09/02/2014 22:53

It's a trick question

Marcipex · 09/02/2014 22:53

X post usernameunknown

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