Grammar Quiz

Lower case g for grammar, surely. 😀

8 ok on use, poor on terminology!

I failed miserably.

4/10

7 – in true stw fashion, I also disagreed with the siblings one AND the gerunt one (assuming we all got the same questions)

8 here. Hadn’t a clue what a “gerund” was 😳 and, yes, I also didn’t get the siblings one. That seems very subtle to be asking in an 11+ (if that’s the kind of question that gets asked).

EDIT: or should that be “…no, I didn’t get the the “siblings” one either.” 😕

4-7: Promising pedant (I got 6)

“gerund”

Oh, OK, so I didn’t read it properly either 😆 (I’m so stw)
DD – I’ve resigned myself to the siblings one (though I still think it only really counts if they add “,who does” to the end)

8/10 – maths is far more interesting than words.

Everyone gets the siblings one wrong, even the grammar pedants, except for a few who make a lucky guess. Seen that 3 times so far, and the exact same discussion has arisen.

Oh and I only got the modifier one by elimination. Truthfully, I didn’t really know what the other two were. 🙂

I thought that I would do reasonably well.

4/10 🙁

6/10 by guessing 🙁

7/10 one was a lucky guess, and 2 or 3 I knew which options sounded right, but couldn’t have told the reason why. I am really very bad at grammar.

“I was sat in the chair”.

That really winds me up. Radio4 and BBC reporters do that all the time. 👿

Some ambiguous stuff on there. The neighbours one – how are we to know if there’s more than one neighbour at that house? And the win against australia – it’s not clear what the sentence means at all.

Oh dear (4/10)

WRONG! It’s misplaced modifier. This is a clause placed so awkwardly as to create ambiguity or misunderstanding. A dangling participle is a type of misplaced modifier involving a participle. Fallen subjunctive does not exist.

I have never heard these terms before. Pretty sure I wasn’t taught them.

The neighbours one – how are we to know if there’s more than one neighbour at that house?

The question refers to “the man” next door.

That comma brother one is iffy – I demand a recount! Yes, I got 9/10 🙂

10/10, though the misplaced modifier was based on elimination…

I did an English Language A-Level and don’t remember the word ‘gerund’, got that one and the siblings one wrong!

I have never heard these terms before. Pretty sure I wasn’t taught them.

Nor me. Pointless question though, I don’t need to know what a grammatical feature is called in order to use it properly.

I got top mark’s.

I have never heard these terms before. Pretty sure I wasn’t taught them.

Ditto. I thought I had a reasonable grasp of grammar but I really didn’t do well on that at all.

I did an English Language A-Level and don’t remember the word ‘gerund’,

I only remembered ‘gerund’ from Latin, along with ‘gerundive’ which was quite obscure.

The neighbours one – how are we to know if there’s more than one neighbour at that house?

The question refers to “the man” next door.
There is nothing to indicate he is the only neighbour or only person who has that garden.

6/10… should of read the replies’ here first before i done the test. i would of scored much more point’s.

The question refers to “the man” next door.

Only one man lives in each of the houses either side of me. However none of them live on their own 🙂

7/10 and agree the test is carp.

I, did rubbish. I dont’ care though; I hate punc’tuation,

8/10

Knew more than expected, gerund…? And guessed the queen and king one ( last question) and still no clearer after reading the answer.

Back to school Mr thickie…

9/10 here, that qualifies me to be a grammar pedant.

thepurist – Member

I only remembered ‘gerund’ from Latin, along with ‘gerundive’ which was quite obscure.

Tell that to Amanda.

6/10 … hmmm … 😯

7/10 but I was struggling all the way…Bit like Wiggo on the final climb today.

9/10, sibling fail 😕
But at least I understood the meaning of all the words !!

Knowing what words mean is vocabulary, not grammar, ain’t it? 7/10 including some guesses on the vocab questions

I’m not putting my score on as I am genuinely ashamed, however I did manage the brother / sister one without problems. In my defence. Take me down.

(Also the gerund one as Mrs O picked me up on a dodgy gerund-use a couple of weeks ago, so fresh in my mind).

8/10: may have to rethink my career as an editor. Or is it ‘might’?

Tell that to Amanda.

Excellent work sir. That belongs here

Two of us managed to score 9/10 and one scored 4/10 in our bit of the office. Fortunately, the 4/10 is the project manager not a writer!