Omletina Kyckling Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 I thought you might want to have a go at this little English test on the BBC website - it's in response to people complaining about dropping standards - next week they are doing a maths one. There are only 20 questions. I got 20 so I'm a happy bunny http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4246472.stm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Couperwife Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 ill get my coat!!! I got 13 (dont tell anyone that im a teacher will you ) cathy x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 I onlt got 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurmurf Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 19/20 never could spell defina... define...definitive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 I got 19.....questionnaire/questionaire/questionairre always has me stumped. Not looking forward to the maths! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 20, but I come from an age when one did much manipulation of the english language at school; it's become second nature. People putting ONLY in the wrong place in a sentence is my particular bugbear! I read somewhere that a council or some such was considering barring the apostrophe from all its publications because it was fed up getting berated for wrong usage. I know there are more important things in the world but it's still annoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurmurf Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 I write policies for a local government employer; nothing, BUT NOTHING, incenses me more than when my beautifully grammatical writing is stripped of necesary apostrophes and commas and decorated with superfluous ones! I'm campaigning internally for the Plain English campaign too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 18.... not bad for a foreigner Though as I studied english at uni, I really should have had 20... ah well, that was a long, long time ago, and I am now more used to toddler talk... 'Mummy, look at choo-choo'... 'Mummy, my crying because...'... it's amazing how one can learn to talk like one's children, instead of the other round... I've always found mistakes endearing in casual circumstances... the way my kids talk and write, the way my foreign friends talk, and so on, shows partly who they are, how they interpret things, I find it immensely sweet... but I do like proper English in written publications... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..lay a little egg for me Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 20...but I am a writer by trade so would have been if I hadn't! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlo Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 I got 19.....questionnaire/questionaire/questionairre always has me stumped. Ditto! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ana's flock Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 20, but I'm a foreigner... and it's a written test. It would have been a different result entirely if I'd had to 'speak' it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 18 Have sent it to my girls to try too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 I got 17, Got questionnaire wrong (probably still is ), was never very good at the difference between similes and metaphors (got cold as ice wrong) and couldn't do the punctuation one that needed a hyphen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickvic Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 I got 20 I like reading and writing though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamebird Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 20 Not sure whether I should be feeling smug or a bit sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poachedegg Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 I got 18 - avarice & taciturn baffled me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mutrix Farmers Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 15 for me. I though "buzzed" was a verb but that wasn't one of the options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UkButton Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 I got 23... I might fail the maths one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamebird Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 I got 23... I might fail the maths one! Very funny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emily95 Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 I got 20! Not looking forward to the maths test... Emily xxx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 I got 19 right. I can't even remember what I got wrong. I had a small girl wriggling on my lap distracting me. I hope there is not a memory one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 I gave up - it took so long for the questions to load and it appeared to stick on question 8. I had got 6 right by then though so not too bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluekarin Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 shh 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassett Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 I got 20! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Posted February 3, 2009 Share Posted February 3, 2009 I got 18 - avarice & taciturn baffled me! That's when it helps to be a foreigner... those are french words... as a french speaking foreigner, I had an unfair advantage there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
