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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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JenaiMorris · 09/02/2013 19:48

Is an antonym an opposite? I guessed that it was. Polluted is not the opposite of hygienic imo!

holmessweetholmes · 09/02/2013 20:02

14/14, but I am a languages teacher. If pupils in this country were taught the grammar of their own language properly, we wouldn't be so rubbish at learning foreign languages. Drives me mad!

elah11 · 09/02/2013 20:02

I got 12 and I never learned anything but the most basic grammar in school (Irish 70's/80's education system!)

AgentZigzag · 09/02/2013 20:07

I wish I'd not seen this thread, I was chuffed to bits to get 10, and DH was when he matched my score, but I was a bit crestfallen when 12 YO DD also got 10 Hmm

Although I'm very pleased for/proud of her Grin

JenaiMorris · 09/02/2013 20:11

I'm not getting ds to do it Agent Grin

CorrieDale · 09/02/2013 20:19

14/14. Forgive the boast - today has not been been riddled with triumph so I have to find it where I can!

SauvignonBlanche · 09/02/2013 20:21

12 for me - could do better. Grin

AgentZigzag · 09/02/2013 20:25

Could do better...'with a little application to the subject' Sauv? Grin

I had my fair share of those at school.

Well done Corrie, it's all up from now on

AgentZigzag · 09/02/2013 20:26

That should be , unless it's a particularly handsome ball?

JenaiMorris · 09/02/2013 20:36

Buff balls

iklboo · 09/02/2013 20:36
  1. Had to dig 'gerund' out of the memory banks though. I left school 28 years ago!!
soimpressed · 09/02/2013 20:49

12 for me. I only knew the answers because I have studied foreign languages. English language wasn't even taught at my secondary school so we certainly didn't learn any grammar.

Will the fact that I can't always spot a collective noun make any difference to my level of literacy though? Hmm

thegreylady · 09/02/2013 20:49

14 retires English teacher/GCSE examiner

thegreylady · 09/02/2013 20:49

retired

CocktailQueen · 09/02/2013 20:54

14 out of 14 - but then I'm an editor so I should have got a good mark!! Tricky though.

tiggytape · 09/02/2013 21:03

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Iggity · 09/02/2013 21:27

Only 11; some of it came from studying another language, some were guesses. I also had a rubbish English teacher at school until aged 14 but by then, it was probably nearly impossible for the decent teacher to help as she was more focused on getting us through the curriculum. I did get A in GCSE English but then headed down the science road.

jalapeno · 09/02/2013 21:34

11 for me, I had to guess most of them Blush

What is a gerund?

jalapeno · 09/02/2013 21:39

Oh...I googled it...We only got as far as verb in middle school. I don't even know what an adverb is Blush

ninja · 09/02/2013 21:42

14 which I'm surprised by as I wasn't completely sure on all of them. I was never particularly good at English and was tought some grammar, but used more common sense!

usualsuspect · 09/02/2013 21:44

9 I went to a secondary modern school in the 70s.We weren't considered bright enough to learn grammar.

plainjayne123 · 09/02/2013 22:00

I was pleased to get 9 as I wasn't taught any grammar but answers could be intelligently guessed

MrsShrek3 · 09/02/2013 22:04

14/14 Grin Grin
thanks to mandatory Latin o'level

nagynolonger · 09/02/2013 22:29

13 out of 14. Not too bad really English was always my worst subject. I think I was working out want wasn't the answer to some........I couldn't have done it if it wasn't multiple choice.

Hulababy · 09/02/2013 22:36

12 out of 14.

Got gerund wrong, and antonym