How good is your grammar?

I don't know what the quiz is but I've just heard a very intelligent young woman this morning say the dreaded 'a' word - arks!! Arks are for carrying animals not what you mean when asking a question!!

The quiz is under Latest on GN ie the advertisements down the side on the right.

I expected to get full marks, but the first time it said 15/16. I think it must have been that I picked the wrong answer when I should have picked the right one. I did it again, more carefully, and got the 16/16 I expected. I know my grammar.

I did exactly the same with the insure ensure question so I counted it as correct because I misread the heading and I do know the difference !

11 - not bad. Got all the spelling ones right though.

14 but I did know all the correct answers. My problem was not paying attention to the questions. Must learn the difference between right and wrong!!

Me too Greenfinch I got 13 so did better than I expected to.

12/16. Not proud of that it would have helped if I had read the questions much more carefully.

But I still don't think I could have got them all correct.

I am not the only one not reading the question properly then.
The most important thing is to get your message across to the recipient so that your meaning is clear and unambigous.

A few hiccups with greengrocer's apostrophes might piss off the pedants but do not change the actual message.
Ignore any of mine. There are some of these I have always struggled with .

I got 16, but have to say it isn't nearly as hard as the current grammar test in schools for eleven-year-olds. Not a fronted adverbial or subjunctive in sight. ?

It's not difficult but can someone tell me what is wrong about "The cat's whiskers were askew"?

16 for me. I always hope I will be forgiven for errors.

Not even going to try, ?

It's not difficult but can someone tell me what is wrong about "The cat's whiskers were askew"?

Nothing wrong with that. The question asked for the wrong one, and the three choices were:

The cats' whiskers....
The cats whiskers....
The cat's whiskers...

So the wrong one was the middle one; the other two are perfectly correct.

Sorry Lucy X post

12 for me, but a couple of ‘kick myself’ mistakes and a couple of ‘haven’t got the foggiest’ answers.

I got 13 too. A couple I realised after I'd already pressed the wrong one, 1 or 2 were guesswork

15 - but I should learn to read the question then I would have got 16!!

I'd be very ashamed if I'd got anything wrong. However, I thought that one question (3, I think) was poorly set and the grammar in the correct solution was questionable.

I thought that too annodomini
Should it have have read
'You should have told me you were going to be there' ?

But perhaps I am wrong.

Did you notice my deliberate mistake?
An extra point if you did

Yes, that bothered me, too, Jalima.

"You should have told me you are going to be there" sounds wrong, however it is spelt.