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title: Grammar puzzles, part one — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Language
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 11 «Grammar puzzles, part one» of the language 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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# Grammar puzzles, part one

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The 15 questions of lesson 11 «Grammar puzzles, part one» of the language course of Mova's primary school with their options, 88 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/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/t1/) — Your mate goes "easy, there's four nouns in 'the dog chased the cat into the garden', 'cos 'chased' is a thing." What's wrong? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/t2/) — A Gen Alpha kid says "'The old man the boat' is giving broken English, it's mid." ("Mid" means not good.) Is it broken? — right ✓ · ★★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/t3/) — A teacher asks "Turn 'The dog has eaten' into a question." Which is right? — right ✓ · ★★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/t4/) — Your cousin says "the verb always agrees with the nearest noun, innit, so 'each of the boys have'." What's right? — right ✓ · ★★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/t5/) — What would happen if we wrote lists with no commas at all? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/t6/) — A wee lad from Edinburgh says "Ken how mony verbs in 'I can swim'? Jist the wan, aye?" ("Ken" means do you know, "wan" means one.) Is he right? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/t7/) — In a cartoon, a detective says "I saw the thief with binoculars" and arrests the man holding binoculars. Why could he be wrong? — right ✓ · ★★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/t8/) — A boomer gran says "Neither the twins nor Tom is coming, dear." Is that right? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/t9/) — Puzzle: how many of these are verbs? "jump, happy, think, quickly, is" — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/t10/) — Puzzle: in a made-up language, "nuk" means fish (one), "nukki" means fish (many), "dar" means bird (one). What does "darri" mean? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/t11/) — Your mate says "'The complex houses married and single soldiers' is nonsense." (Here a complex is a group of buildings.) What is the verb? — right ✓ · ★★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/e1/) — Ascertain the number of nouns contained within the sentence "The dog chased the cat into the garden". — right ✓ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/e2/) — Identify the word functioning as the verb in the sentence "The old man the boat". — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/e3/) — Select the formulation consistent with the rules of agreement in standard English. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/e4/) — In respect of the sentence "Neither the cat nor the dogs \_\_\_ hungry", determine the verb form required by the rule of proximity. — wrong ✗ · exam

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