Ten and 11-year-old children around the UK will be doing Key Stage 2 SATs tests this week, being examined on their knowledge of such things as determiners, relative clauses, modal verbs and subordinating conjunctions. \u00a0Just so they don\u2019t miss out, here\u2019s a special test for David Cameron, Education Secretary, Nicky Morgan, and her predecessor Michael Gove.<\/p>\n
Complete the sentence below so that it uses the subjunctive form <\/em><\/p>\n If I ____ to have an ounce of sense, I would understand that good writing does not require the writer to know what a subjunctive is.<\/p>\n Circle the determiners in the sentence below<\/em><\/p>\n I can drive my car without knowing the difference between a camshaft and a crankshaft. In the same way I can write an email, a report or a best-selling novel without ever having to know the difference between a preposition and a subordinating conjunction.<\/p>\n Which sentence uses the hyphen correctly? \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n If I understood the true meaning of education, I would not set tests that make six year olds cry. Also, if I thought for a moment about the qualities tomorrow\u2019s workforce will actually need, I would not make 11-year-olds feel like failures for not knowing what a passive voice is.<\/p>\n Complete the following sentence using a preposition phrase<\/em><\/p>\n I ought to take my preposition phrases, relative clauses, modal verbs, past progressives, determiners and subordinating conjunctions and shove them __________<\/p>\n Learn the following quotations off by heart<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWhen I was at school there was a huge focus on copying and testing and it put me off words and stories for years.\u201d Michael Morpurgo, Author of War Horse, Private Peaceful and other novels<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cI learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.\u201d Richard Feynman, Nobel prize winning physicist <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ten and 11-year-old children around the UK will be doing Key Stage 2 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidvigar.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidvigar.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidvigar.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidvigar.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidvigar.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidvigar.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidvigar.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidvigar.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidvigar.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}