how good is your english

[keithd]

16/20 for me. awful start, 3 of first 4 wrong...got myself together at the end...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4246472.stm

[SoulKiss]

18/20 - got the 1st question wrong, then an apostrophe one.

[JamesMio]

Oh dear.... 11/20

That's poor innit?

[SoulKiss]

That's poor innit?

You answer your own question in the affirmative I am afraid.........

[JamesMio]

You answer your own question in the affirmative I am afraid.........

;)

[rigor]

19/20


I iz good english I iz ;)

[Tara]

16/20 which is worrying

[G]

I'm terrible and I know it, so I wont even bother trying to complete it lol.

My younger years at school, I spent most of my time canoeing and training not working hard at school. That with the fact my english teacher was a psycho alcholic who got sacked it made life difficult.

So yes I'm terrible at it lol

[Samnooshka]

19/20 got the onomata... something or other wrong lol.... 2nd question anyway!

[dizzyblonde]

oh dear 16/20.....bad for an A'level English Language student:-(

[Luckypants]

19/20 :cool: Da iawn, dw i'n meddwl.

[Gordon B]

Oh dear, 12 out of 20!

I'll get my 8 year old to do it when he comes home from school and see how he gets on!

[gettin2dizzy]

19. Shameful!

[plowsie]

12 :D lol

[Pedrosa]

I am be score 12/20. I am being think I have too many very much time in a Spain?

[plowsie]

Dont put that voice on again to cover it up ;)

[gettin2dizzy]

We should have that test as the entry requirements for this forum ;)

[Girth]

20/20...................would be good but i got 13/20 :(

[G]

We should have that test as the entry requirements for this forum ;)


you racist ;) lol,












or is it discriminative.

[keithd]

16/20 which is worrying

i was quite pleased with 16!!

the one's i got wrong i dont consider to be that important, alliteration, similies and the like. grammar and spelling i got all right bar accommodattiion i think...:D

[gettin2dizzy]

you racist ;) lol,



or is it discriminative?
Fixed.
Mods! One has slipped through the net!

[21QUEST]

Jesu Christy!!!! 15.5 :rolleyes:


Ben

[21QUEST]

Fixed.
Mods! One has slipped through the net!

Lol


Ben

[dizzyblonde]

I am be score 12/20. I am being think I have too many very much time in a Spain?

aha, we knew the weee pedrosa was still present, but you have been practising well with your 'teach yourself English' CDs

[gettin2dizzy]

i was quite pleased with 16!!

the one's i got wrong i dont consider to be that important, alliteration, similies and the like. grammar and spelling i got all right bar accommodattiion i think...:D
I'm surprised! ;)

[Pedrosa]

aha, we knew the weee pedrosa was still present, but you have been practising well with your 'teach yourself English' CDs

You are too kind my dear.

Funny that a couple of days ago down at the beach in my high cut Speedo's, :cool:I spoke to a Spanish lady and offered to help her out of the sea on to some rocks. She was impressed at my gentleman like behaviour. She then went on to ask me if I was Italian.:p

English geezer speaks Spanish like an Italian,figure that one out!:rolleyes:

[keithd]

I'm surprised! ;)

ah when i want to do it i can like init. good english is very much like making love to a beautiful woman....

[dizzyblonde]

Spelling is a piece of pish, even
Floccinaucinihilipilification

no idea what it means but I'd be good on countdown. Its just remembering what onomateopoeia and such is used for

[21QUEST]

.....
English geezer speaks Spanish like an Italian,figure that one out!:rolleyes:

Sounds like the description of a well rounded geezer :confused: :p ;)


Ben

[Beaniebike]

16/20, but would have been 17/20 if I had clicked the one I meant to do in one of them. Was looking right at hyphen, but clicked apostrophe for some unknown reason!!! The definition ones were the ones I found hard!

[ooger]

I am liking your englishings

[krhall]

17/20 - Hmmmmm!

[BernardBikerchick]

erm 12/20 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:smt120 :smt120:smt120:smt120:smt120

[Baph]

Q3 is two things really, and I chose the wrong one out of the two possibles.
Q19 could of had two answers as well, I chose the most obvious, and got it wrong.

So I got 18/20, but I'd ask for a re-count on at least Q3!!

[Flamin_Squirrel]

15/20 :oops:

I think I'll just have to ignore that, and wait for the maths test next week...

[ThEGr33k]

10/20. Really showing my Dyslexia there. :(

[Ceri JC]

An altruistic way of improving your English (well, your vocabulary at least):

http://freerice.com/

[ThEGr33k]

ah when i want to do it i can like init. good english is very much like making love to a beautiful woman....

Are you bad at that too? :laughat:

[rigor]

Q3 is two things really, and I chose the wrong one out of the two possibles.
Q19 could of had two answers as well, I chose the most obvious, and got it wrong.

So I got 18/20, but I'd ask for a re-count on at least Q3!!

No! ;)

The Colombia Encyclopedia, 6th edition, explains the difference as: a simile states that A is like B, a metaphor states that A is B or substitutes B for A.

[Ceri JC]

18/20. One of those I'd argue was down to their writing style (there were actually two mistakes in it and I spotted the 'wrong' one, which was merely stylistic, first). The other was mis-spelling 'Accommodation'.

[timwilky]

18/20. Damm if I know where the missing hyphen belongs.

[Baph]

18/20. Damm if I know where the missing hyphen belongs.
long-lost :confused:

[timwilky]

long-lost :confused:


Doh. Cannot see for looking

[Ceri JC]

long-lost :confused:

Correct. I got that one wrong for saying it should have an exclamation mark in it. Arguably, it should; if anything deserves one, finding a long-lost brother does! I also don't like people ending quoted sections of speech with a comma, unless the verb for the way they said it is markedly different from, 'said'.

E.g. I don't mind "Get away from my bike you ****," spat the biker.
But I prefer: Before to long, the bus driver said, "Here we are, this is your stop."

To: "Here we are, this is your stop," said the bus driver, before too long.

The latter just looks clunky.

[rigor]

Correct. I got that one wrong for saying it should have an exclamation mark in it. Arguably, it should; if anything deserves one, finding a long-lost brother does! I also don't like people ending quoted sections of speech with a comma, unless the verb for the way they said it is markedly different from, 'said'.

E.g. I don't mind "Get away from my bike you ****," spat the biker.
But I prefer: Before to long, the bus driver said, "Here we are, this is your stop."

To: "Here we are, this is your stop," said the bus driver, before too long.

The latter just looks clunky.
Surely in your last example you have to many commas anyway. Shouldn't it be:

Before too long the bus driver said, "Here we are, this is your stop."

Or

"Here we are, this is your stop," said the bus driver before too long.

Which is still horrible :D

[Stu]

16. Such a good start as well, I was really getting excited :( blew it on some spelling & apostrophes.

[21QUEST]

Surely, that can never be right ?

As you both say, it just doesn't sound correct. Can anyone give a definitive 'why' ?

The above shows why Maths is an easier Subject than English lol


Ben

[wyrdness]

18/20. One of those I'd argue was down to their writing style (there were actually two mistakes in it and I spotted the 'wrong' one, which was merely stylistic, first). The other was mis-spelling 'Accommodation'.

'Accommodation' got me too. Funny, because I can type it correctly. I also got one of the apostrophe questions wrong too, so 18/20. Must Try Harder.

[melody]

19/20

English is not my first language.;)

[Ed]

20/20:smt045:smt077 Big 'Ed

[thedonal]

18/20.

Ostentateous- now I know what it means!
Missed on the hyphen as well- was looking in the wrong place for that sentence!

[Biker Biggles]

17 for me.Spelling:(

Must try harder.:D

[grh1904]

17/20 - and I'm not English !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[joshmac]

No! ;)


:lol: Ruthless

[dissuade]

good english is very much like making love to a beautiful woman....

You get laughed at when you do it wrong?

[dissuade]

Oh, and

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g304/dissuicide/Picture1.png?t=1215024154

20! Bring it! Not bad for a foreigner. English folk - be ashamed.

xx

[Gene genie]

i mus sey inglish woz allrays mi strogist subgekt at skoool. top ov de clazs eferi dey.

[Gene genie]

Oh, and

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g304/dissuicide/Picture1.png?t=1215024154

20! Bring it! Not bad for a foreigner. English folk - be ashamed.

xxyour not a foreigner, are you? t'other side o'pennines aint foreign.:)

[seedy100]

75% - bring on the maffs.

[dissuade]

your not a foreigner, are you? t'other side o'pennines aint foreign.:)


But Germany is.

[grh1904]

But Germany is.

I take it Spain is off your list of holiday destinations this year ?????????:smt077

[Mrs Blue Pete]

20/20. You'd hope for that, though, me being a member of the teaching profession!

[northwind]

I got 19, but only because questtionnnaiiirre is bloody french not english.

[carty]

19/20. I'll take that. Q19 got me. :smt075

[Flamin_Squirrel]

20! Bring it! Not bad for a foreigner. English folk - be ashamed.

xx

To be fair, considering how rubbish the English curriculum is, you probably get taught English better in Germany than you do here.

[Ceri JC]

'Accommodation' got me too. Funny, because I can type it correctly. I also got one of the apostrophe questions wrong too, so 18/20. Must Try Harder.

Yeah me too. I loaded up word intending to spell check it, typed it in and got it right first time.

[keithd]

ok then...

i was always taught that if you use "an" in a sentence the following word must always begin with a vowel. i.e he was an excellent rider...

why, therefore is "horrific" preceeded with "an" ie it was an horrific attack. a horrific sounds better to.

or have i got it wrong?

is this the exception which proves the rule?

[Scoobs]

a horrific sounds better to.


No it doesn't, but what do I know. I got 14 from 20.

[keithd]

"better too" i should have said.

it was a horrific...

it was an horrific...

meh. i dunno

[Stu]

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[Stu]

http://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?uri=%2F&scope=all&go=toolbar&q=horrific+accident
2 each. I much prefer a horrific accident to the other kind

[454697819]

oooh thats funny 10/20

I blame the fact that im ****e at spelling...