Test your grammar - Guardian test

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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.

Phew 14. But product of a linguistics degree. Would've been an entirely wasted 3 years if not!

14/14, but I don't see what antonyms have to do with grammar, and the polar bear sentence was absolutely tortuous.

We didn't get taught much formal grammar at school beyond verb=doing word, vowel=naming word, adverb describes the verb, adjective describes the noun. I did a grammar English Language paper at uni though, and learnt about parsing sentences via Laura Ingalls Wilder

9 out of 14

13/14 - got the prepositional phrase wrong through not reading the question carefully enough [dim]

Doing Latin did help with e.g. the gerund question, as it was never touched upon in any other language I did at school (4: English, French, German and Russian).

13 mainly as a product of Latin lessons, although learnt about the passive voice in science lessons as methods had to be written in the passive voice and Word always used to put green grammar lines underneath it.

I'm still winning!

11, pleased with that may have been lucky guesses, child of the early 70's (small town school) never taught any grammer (or spelling).

13/14. I did get A for English though.

11/14

First and the last two, just never heard the terms.

14 here but I'm a former EFL teacher so I should know my stuff when it comes to grammar!

thon...you can pass the hat to me now !!!!!!

Yes, that polar bear sentence was reet daft.

13/14, some were educated guesses, and no idea about a gerund. Again, child of the sixties, never taught grammar beyond basics, we were supposed to absorb it naturally by reading. I do have A level English Lit, but it didn't help. I liked 'pride' as an abstract and collective noun, though.

12/14.

I got 8. 70s child here and I don't remember being taught any grammar. Not collective, abstract or passive at all. I guessed gerund - and got it right.

8 the shame. I have an English Degree, although in Literature, and we were never really taught grammar at my Grammar School in the 70s.

I still win the thicko prize!

11 out of 14...and I went to a very sought after garmmat school in the 80's....most of the test meant little to me and was educated guesswork. Poor year 6's.....

14/14

12. I did latin. Still don't know what a gerund is though.

14/14

10. Never did any English grammar, so guessed a fair bit from doinga French A level (a head-hanging E 30 years ago.....)

Phew, 14/14. Oh, the relief!

13/14

I don't remember learning any of the grammar terms like gerund or antonym but must've picked up most of it at some point.

I did Latin O level too but remember very little of It (24years have passed since then!)

14. Not a teacher, but I did get As in English Language and Literature many moons ago...