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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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CharlotteBronteSaurus · 09/02/2013 17:07

14/14
< rusty schoolgirl Latin also>

IamtheZombie · 09/02/2013 17:15

12/14. May Zombie plead that she is American as her defence?

FurryDogMother · 09/02/2013 17:18

13/14 and I have a 2:1 degree in English (including linguistics) and a Latin O level. My brain has mostly been eaten by the menopause :)

NTitled · 09/02/2013 17:18
  1. We had endless grammar lessons at school in the 80s, in English, Latin, French, German and Spanish. Glad that my DC are having endless grammar lessons at school now too!
BertieBotts · 09/02/2013 17:23

13/14, but I've been revising grammar as am currently doing a CELTA. Four weeks ago I would have probably got about 4 right!

LynetteScavo · 09/02/2013 17:31

I don't ever remember having any grammar lessons at school..except one, in the equivalent of Y6, we had one lesson on nouns/adjectives/verbs. At the end of the lesson the teacher told anyone who hadn't understood to put up their hand. Nobody did. I was one of the brighter DC in the class, and I hadn't a clue, so I'm damn sure there were at least 25 other DC who also had no clue!

BertieBotts · 09/02/2013 17:32

We only ever studied nouns/verbs/adjectives/adverbs - that was it. This was in the 1990s.

BooksandaCuppa · 09/02/2013 17:34

I rushed and misread the prepositional phrase one, too (rushed clicking on the answer, I mean) so also got 13/14.

80s comp - no grammar lessons at all - but did do French and German A Level and so knew lots of grammar from that - including gerund. Also knew lots of rhetorical terms etc from English A Level. Can't believe so many don't know 'gerund' who did do languages?

I did a module on grammar, including parsing, as part of English Lit degree and the range of grammar ability we'd all come in with was astonishing.

I also agree that being able to use grammar is more important than knowing the technical terms - though, to some extent, you can't have one without the other. Listening to year 7s the other week going over the difference between subject and object (so, for example, they knew when to use 'I' instead of 'me') reminded me that both are important.

shushpenfold · 09/02/2013 17:36

12...pleased!

Chottie · 09/02/2013 17:38

8 Sad another child of the 60s...........

LillethTheCat · 09/02/2013 17:40

I got 9 which was more than I thought it would be. There was only one which I knew for definite and that was the there/their/they're one.

Ive seen posters describe the users of Mumsnet as bright and clever. They weren't talking about me obviously Grin

hurricanewyn · 09/02/2013 17:45

7/14 here. I thought I had a good grasp of grammar too Blush

Wewereherefirst · 09/02/2013 17:46

5- I was at primary school in the 90's and we didn't do any grammar. God knows how I managed my last job really!

mrz · 09/02/2013 17:50

Did no one grow up with First Aid In English in primary school?

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Feenie · 09/02/2013 17:51

I still have one, and I still use it Grin

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mrz · 09/02/2013 17:53

Me too ...just noticed it's available for Kindle

SchroSawMargeryDaw · 09/02/2013 17:53

I got 11/14.

Doilooklikeatourist · 09/02/2013 17:56

I scored 11 !
A child of the 60s here too .
Actually quite pleased with myself !

pointythings · 09/02/2013 17:56

13/14. Which I think is quite good for someone who is not English, but I am kicking myself for doubting the one I got wrong as my first instinct was right...

BertieBotts · 09/02/2013 17:57

Nope, have never heard of First Aid in English.

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Feenie · 09/02/2013 17:57

Can't find it, mrz Sad

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mrz · 09/02/2013 18:02

Sorry Feenie I got excited about nothing ...when I put First Aid in English into google it said kindle but clicking on the link takes me to a paperback Blush

Wewereherefirst · 09/02/2013 18:03

DS1(yr2) got 3/14 I'm impressed seeing as he's only 6, he's a clever boy

gwenniebee · 09/02/2013 18:03

Hurrah! 14. I'm a primary teacher; phew!

Titchyboomboom · 09/02/2013 18:15

10, which I thought was bloody marvellous considering I went on gut feeling and not knowledge

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