English mother****er, do you speak it?

[MadameChaos]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22512744

[NorthernFusion]

Apparently not.

[th555]

Why is it 3 and not 4 on the first one? Could be multiple neighbours' garden, huh? Or does it not work like that in english?

[Guest Adam]

5/10 would not speak

[mcbpete]

Jeez, I always considered myself to be pretty well versed in English grammar but I only got 4 out of 10 ...

[keltoi]

Why is it 3 and not 4 on the first one? Could be multiple neighbours' garden, huh? Or does it not work like that in english?

 

it says the man next door.

[lumpenprol]

7/10

[th555]

 

Why is it 3 and not 4 on the first one? Could be multiple neighbours' garden, huh? Or does it not work like that in english?

it says the man next door.

 

Oh, I missed that. Still it seems more logical to me to use the plural form.

I got 4/10 or so.

[Friendly Foil]

5/10

 

Did not ENJOY =(

[dr lopez]

Wait seriously? I missed one and I think I'm one of the worst writers on here lol

[Guest Frankie5fingers]

5/10. doesnt really surprise me. my grammar not good.

 

but this is a pretty good test.

[Ethel]

7/10

horrendous speller though

[cichlisuite]

1/10 damn

[gaarg]

I got 6 and didn't understand a few words in there and couldn't be bothered to look them up, so I guess I did well

[eugene]

6/10 but one answer was a total guess

[mcbpete]

I got 6 and didn't understand a few words in there and couldn't be bothered to look them up, so I guess I did well

Was any of them 'Gerund', 'Misplaced modifier' or 'Dangling participle' because don't worry I've never heard of those either !

[jhonny]

8/10

[rixxx]

 

I got 6 and didn't understand a few words in there and couldn't be bothered to look them up, so I guess I did well

Was any of them 'Gerund', 'Misplaced modifier' or 'Dangling participle' because don't worry I've never heard of those either !

 

 

 

yeah what the fuck? never heard of those terms

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I got 6 and didn't understand a few words in there and couldn't be bothered to look them up, so I guess I did well

Was any of them 'Gerund', 'Misplaced modifier' or 'Dangling participle' because don't worry I've never heard of those either !

 

 

 

yeah what the fuck? never heard of those terms

 

 

Don't worry about him, he's a secret genius.

[gaarg]

I imagined what modifier would mean. Gerund was a complete mystery, as for dangling participle I guessed it right somehow. Guessworkz

[Guest Blue Peter Cheat]

8, but I had to guess one and got lucky.

 

I got the siblings one wrong. Annoying.

[blackdust]

0-3: Colon confusenik

Me fail English, thats unpossible

[ambermonk]

6/10

I don't recall learning about dangling participles in school, but they sound dirty.

[LimpyLoo]

8/10

 

And I was expecting to get them all right as grammar is one of the few things I'm good at.

[ghOsty]

7/10 ... that last question was dumb, I've never heard any of those terms before. I knew the sentence was incorrect but had no idea there was a term for why. and wtf is a gerund?