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title: SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · English
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 52 «SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper» 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.
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# SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper

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The 15 questions of lesson 52 «SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper» of the English course of Mova's primary school with their options, 83 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/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/t1/) — Your mate says, "Grammar words are useless, you just talk, innit." Put him right. — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/t2/) — Aisling in Dublin: "Sure we was only messin', so we were." ("Messin'" means joking around.) Which form does the GPS test want? — right ✓ · ★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/t3/) — What would happen if you put "The cat chased the mouse" into the passive but changed the tense by mistake? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/t4/) — A cartoon says, "A semicolon's just a fancy comma, stick it anywhere." Fix it. — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/t5/) — Which sentence uses an adverb? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/t6/) — "Sod it, I'll just guess the lot," says Dan, with 10 minutes left. What would help more? — right ✓ · ★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/t7/) — Which sentence is in the passive? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/t8/) — "Circle the word that is NOT an adjective: tall, happy, slowly, orange." Which word? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/t9/) — Which sentence is punctuated correctly? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/t10/) — Rewrite "Mum baked a cake" in the passive. — wrong ✗ · ★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/t11/) — "Quickly, the boy, who was late, ran to school." Which word is the adverb, and where is it? — wrong ✗ · ★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/e1/) — Identify the word class of "quickly" in the sentence "The fox ran quickly." — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/e2/) — It is given that a sentence reads "The dog chased the ball." Select its correct rendering in the passive voice. — right ✓ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/e3/) — Ascertain which of the following constitutes the Standard English form required in the examination. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/e4/) — Determine the punctuation mark that may properly conjoin two closely related independent clauses. — right ✓ · exam

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