--- title: Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · English description: The 16 test and exam questions of lesson 5 «Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up» of the English course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/) / Handwriting: holding the pencil and jo… # Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up The 16 questions of lesson 5 «Handwriting: holding the pencil and joining up» of the English course of Mova's primary school with their options, 90 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/t1/) — «lefties write wrong, my nan says they made 'em use their right hand back in the day». What is true? — wrong ✗ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/t2/) — «ugh my hand's dead after one line, I hold it like a sword». What would you tell him? — right ✓ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/t3/) — «b and d again!! is something wrong with him?» Ben's mum is worried. What is the calm answer? — wrong ✗ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/t4/) — What would happen if Nate kept leaving no spaces between words? — right ✓ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/t5/) — «write faster, bruv, the marker'll work out what you meant». Is that right? — right ✓ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/t6/) — A cartoon pencil shows «a» starting at the bottom and going up. What should it show? — wrong ✗ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/t7/) — «lush that, cariad, but why've you got capitals in the middle?» What should the child fix? — wrong ✗ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/t8/) — «no-one writes by hand any more, it's all phones». Why might joining up still help? — right ✓ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/t9/) — «her writing's ugly so her story's rubbish». What is the fair answer? — wrong ✗ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/t10/) — ★★★ Which word has BOTH an ascender and a descender? — right ✓ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/t11/) — ★★★ How many letters in «happy» hang below the line? — right ✓ - [t12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/t12/) — ★★★ In the middle of a sentence, Jo writes «mydoG». How many fixes does it need? — wrong ✗ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/e1/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the tripod grip? — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/e2/) — Identify the principal reason for which illegible handwriting is disadvantageous in a written examination. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/e3/) — It is given that a pupil of six years frequently reverses the letters b and d. Select the response consistent with the established facts. — right ✓ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/5-handwriting-holding-the-pencil-and-joining-up/e4/) — Ascertain the relation which subsists between handwriting and composition in the assessment of pupils' writing. — right ✓ · exam - ← previous: [4. Vowel teams, split digraphs and choosing the spe…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/4-vowel-teams-split-digraphs-and-choosing-the-spelling/) - next →: [6. Spelling plurals: -s, -es, -ies, -ves and odd ones](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/6-spelling-plurals/) - ↑ back to [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/)