Sentence examples for tests of grammar from inspiring English sources

A Whitehall source said the number of children involved may have been as few as 1,000, a small fraction of the more than 1 million state school pupils in years two and six, the groups scheduled to sit new tests of grammar, spelling and punctuation and maths.

In an environment where the focus is heavily on passing tests of grammar and vocabulary, speaking often is given a backwards role, and not emphasized as important.

The Department for Education has said it is going ahead with Tuesday's test of grammar and spelling for primary school pupils, despite the publication of the answers on the internet a day early.

One commentator notes, "a good test of grammar may be valid for measuring the grammatical ability of the examinees but not for measuring other kinds of abilities" (Farhady, 1986).

His claim that his policies are helping children with special educational needs (SEN) is laughable: the money that was there to help many thousands of children struggling with SEN has vanished, and the introduction of "do or die" tests on grammar and reading across the age range, starting with five-year-olds, will inevitably mean that SEN children will be labelled failures from a very early age.

Asked to rate their skill on tests of logic, grammar and humor, subjects who scored lowest were also the most likely to "grossly overestimate" their performance, the researchers found.

Teachers should judge children's creative writing, he says, but pupils should still face official tests of spelling, grammar and punctuation as well as reading and maths.

It's ironic that a test on grammar (which emphasises the importance of categories) should contain such a category shift.

Green and Weir (2004), however, claimed that their in-house placement test was not useful for identifying test-takers' mastery of grammar.

The game features an integrated chat system which is available only after completing a basic test of English grammar and spelling.

A test of artificial grammar acquisition is to judge whether letter-strings or color-bar sequences adhere to the rules at a level above chance.