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Adults have been left baffled by a grammar question, which is designed to be answered by children. A teacher has asked other adults to give it a go to see if they can answer it.
Dr Mary Bousted, the general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, has described grammar tests currently being sat by 11-year-olds as 'daunting and counterproductive.' ...
Grammar remains a mystery to many adults. By The Newsroom. Published 11th Jul 2010, 17:14 BST. Updated 11th Jul 2010, 21:43 BST. MANY native English speakers have trouble understanding basic ...
If you're an adult determined to learn a foreign ... a recent MIT study did pinpoint 17.4 years as the cut-off for obtaining a native-like mastery of another language's grammar structure, ...
Children are again to be subject to a rigorous examination in grammar. But why does it make adults so cross when other adults break the rules? A new grammar and spelling test arrives in primary ...
The study of 2,000 adults found four in 10 really don’t know how to use basic grammar when writing bodies of text. Six in 10 adults have no idea what a pronoun is, while 38 per cent don’t know ...
Children are again to be subject to a rigorous examination in grammar. But why does it make adults so cross when other adults break the rules? A new grammar and spelling test arrives in primary ...