Re: 11-plus grammar

Frances Kemmish wrote:

Leslie Danks wrote:

If you try the test, Question 4 will tell you whether you belong to the
sheep or the rest:

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7478000/7478154.stm>


I got 7 out of 8, but I still don't agree with their sequence. The question was poorly thought out.

I see that something got lost in translation there: I don't agree with the sequence of words in question 3 - I thought galloped should have been last rather than raced, but that the question was poorly thought out.
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