Good grammar test: can you pass?

[longknife]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/ed ... -pass.html

[Won't tell you how I did]

[Quill]

"Which of these names is in fact the nominative feminine singular of the gerundive mood imported direct from Latin?"

I didn't find it a grammar test so much as a grammar terminology test, and I gave up on it.

[longknife]

I looked up "gerund" and the explanation was probably the most confusing piece of garbage I've ever read!

[bcomet]

Ughhhhhhhh. And then, there is always how do characters "sound" when speaking, that must be considered (as many people do not use fully correct speech).

As for the dialect of gerund, there seems to be a fierce political standoff between the anti-gerund at all costs and gerunds are my birthright/Gertrude Stein/this is happening N.O.W. and I am free to express the now as I please factions.

We will always have Paris.

"A drone of earnest gerunds filled the room and only sometimes seemed..."

[rabika]

They depicts the draft horses as a "draught horse"..As it's only a personal opinion of the writer..His counter views may vary meanwhile.

[longknife]

They depicts the draft horses as a "draught horse"..As it's only a personal opinion of the writer..His counter views may vary meanwhile.

I'm having a similar problem with my editors. My novels are set in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. I used plough and they immediately changed it to plow. I had to explain the era of the novel.

Draught is another obsolete word with a German history that has been Anglicized.