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Oh deer, norty Gally - back to skool I fink

Thank you Cari !
12/14
#musttryharder

Me too jane, I wonder if we were wrong on the same two questions

11/14
#musttryevenharder

12/14 didn't know the last two answers #doIreallyneedtoknowanyway?

Thank you, Cari. Fourteen out of fourteen! Wey hey! Offensively triumphalist dance! But I can't take credit for it. I went to secondary school in the 1950s when this is what Eng Lang was about. We did paraphrases and précis and dictation as well. And spelling tests. And my DGS are required to take perfectly good, plain English prose and litter it with unnecessary adjectives and adverbs. And they know they are not learning anything through the activity.

13 out of 14. I had the wrong definition of "team".

Well, you did go to school a lot more recently than some of us, Cari

Hi I got 13/14. Got the 'tiptoes' question wrong. Was always good at English - grammer and literature at school. Spelling too!

I shocked and amazed! I got 12!!! My brain still works

11/14. What is a gerund? Never heard of it [ignorant emoticon]!

shysal it is a term used when giving directions. For example if someone says "can you direct me to the station, please?" you can reply "Yes of course. You gerund the corner and it's on your left".

I got 12.

I think the first question is rubbish though. How can polluted be an antonym for hygienic? A glass of pure water with a splash of vodka would be polluted by the vodka but it wouldn't be unhygienic. What's wrong with unhygienic anyway?

And I googled gerund.

So you got 11 really!

I might have guessed right!

And I would have thought No 10 is more about correct spelling then grammar! Why does it ask which is grammatically correct. They all sound dreadful anyway. Punctuation is bad, at the very least.

j08 8 when did that happen?

12

I don't agree that this sentence is conditional: "He thought he might be able to dig a tunnel through the rock".

I think it is passive because it describes a thought. The thought is conditional (possibly – I'd say subjunctive, actually) but the sentence describing it isn't.

Come on, grammar gurus. What do you say?