LeightonJames Posted May 14, 2013 Posted May 14, 2013 How many Teacher's could pass this Grammar Test?? Courtesy of the Beeb BBC News - 10 questions on grammar I took the test and got 2 out of 10!!
sdc Posted May 14, 2013 Posted May 14, 2013 NB: should be "How many teachers" (no apostrophe). But I'm assuming you knew that and it was irony!
LeightonJames Posted May 14, 2013 Author Posted May 14, 2013 I was going to write a sentence full of grammatical error's, but I just thought that leaving the one in there would be enough!!
CESIL Posted May 14, 2013 Posted May 14, 2013 6/10 and classed as a "Promising Pedant", but then I already knew that * *I guessed at least 3 correctly so my real score is 3/10...but as a child of the 60's and 70's teaching revolution I blame the system!
Roberto Posted May 14, 2013 Posted May 14, 2013 7/10, but it was a bit tough for me The same. There were a few tricky questions in there, I thought.
JonThompson Posted May 14, 2013 Posted May 14, 2013 (edited) 5 out of 10 - A 'Promising pedant' - (A pedant is a person who is excessively concerned with formalism and precision, or who makes an ostentatious and arrogant show of his/her learning.) From wikipedia)" Not me then.... Edited May 14, 2013 by JonThompson
tmcd35 Posted May 14, 2013 Posted May 14, 2013 6/10 and classed as a "Promising Pedant", but then I already knew that * *I guessed at least 3 correctly so my real score is 3/10...but as a child of the 60's and 70's teaching revolution I blame the system! That's what I got, but guessed at 4 so my score is probably closer to 2/10
sonofsanta Posted May 14, 2013 Posted May 14, 2013 7/10, but the first question was ambiguous - if you had more than one person living next door, neighbours would be plural and neighbours' would have been correct, not neighbour's. So I maintain I should be 8/10. Which is still not good enough. Bah.
CESIL Posted May 14, 2013 Posted May 14, 2013 7/10, but the first question was ambiguous - if you had more than one person living next door, neighbours would be plural and neighbours' would have been correct, not neighbour's. So I maintain I should be 8/10. Which is still not good enough. Bah. The first question was very clear...it referred to "the man next door", i.e. singular... [WARNING] Pendantry detected... [/WARNING]
sonofsanta Posted May 14, 2013 Posted May 14, 2013 The first question was very clear...it referred to "the man next door", i.e. singular... [WARNING] Pendantry detected... [/WARNING] Alas! So it did. My own damned fault for being a smart alec and skipping straight to the answers, thinking I don't need context cos I'm dead clever and stuff.
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