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Test your grammar - Guardian test

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Feenie · 09/02/2013 11:39

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.

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Sparklingbrook · 09/02/2013 11:41

9/14.

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Feenie · 09/02/2013 11:44
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Sparklingbrook · 09/02/2013 11:45
Hassled · 09/02/2013 11:46

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

AlwaysReadyForABlether · 09/02/2013 11:46

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

Pascha · 09/02/2013 11:47

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

Wallison · 09/02/2013 11:51

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

TheNebulousBoojum · 09/02/2013 11:54

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

BrianButterfield · 09/02/2013 11:56

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

Sparklingbrook · 09/02/2013 11:57

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

shrinkingnora · 09/02/2013 11:58

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

mermaidbutmytailfelloff · 09/02/2013 11:58
  1. I am a child of the sixties and never had a grammar lesson in my life. I know what sounds right but not why....
Northey · 09/02/2013 12:01

Filled with (abstract) pride :)

EmpressMaud · 09/02/2013 12:05

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?

Ilovewaleswhenitrains · 09/02/2013 12:06

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

maizieD · 09/02/2013 12:15

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

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 Y6sSad

Dillydollydaydream · 09/02/2013 12:15

10!

thornrose · 09/02/2013 12:16

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

Sparklingbrook · 09/02/2013 12:19
MardyBraWouldDoEddieRedmayne · 09/02/2013 12:20
HugAndRoll · 09/02/2013 12:22

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

MardyBraWouldDoEddieRedmayne · 09/02/2013 12:22

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

thornrose · 09/02/2013 12:22

This dunces hat is bloody uncomfortable.

bruffin · 09/02/2013 12:23

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

StuntNun · 09/02/2013 12:23

10/14
I didn't learn any of that stuff in school, I didn't even know English had gerunds. My education was pitiful in that respect.

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