---
title: SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper — how Mova does on the tests · English
description: Lesson 52 of the english course of Mova's primary school: 2 of 11 tests right, exam 2 of 4, every question with the options, the student's choice, the right answer and why it chose.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/) / [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/) / 52

# SATs: grammar, punctuation and spelling paper

<!-- .vintro -->
**Tests:** 2 of 11 right · **Exam:** 2 of 4 right · **Kind:** ★ · **Understood:** 3 of 15 · **Run:** 2026-10-18, commit `f3c23ea72`

<!-- .vabout -->
Lesson 52 of the english course of Mova's primary school, as Mova's small model took its tests: it had read this lesson and the ones before it and learned from their exercises. Each test shows the options in the order the student saw them, its choice, the right answer, the score of every option and why it chose. The lesson itself, sentence by sentence with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/).

<!-- .vabout -->
Every question of this lesson and each of its options parsed by Mova, with trees and pragmatics: [the lesson's questions in the corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/).

<!-- div qa no -->

### Test 1 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t1}

<!-- .q -->
Your mate says, "Grammar words are useless, you just talk, innit." Put him right.

- **1.** Grammar words just make you sound posher — **← Mova's choice** · score 2
- **2.** Nobody ever uses grammar words for anything — score 1
- **3.** They let you talk about how sentences work — **✓ the right answer** · score 2
- **4.** Grammar words are only for teachers to use — score 2

<!-- .why -->
**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 1 with score 2, tied with another option at 2 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 26, line 1: «A sentence is a group of words that makes complete sense on its own. It starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, a question mark or an exclamati…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same action «make» (+1); the same doer «words» (+1). The right option, 3, scored 2. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/t1/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa ok -->

### Test 2 · ★ · right ✓ {#t2}

<!-- .q -->
Aisling in Dublin: "Sure we was only messin', so we were." ("Messin'" means joking around.) Which form does the GPS test want?

- **1.** we were — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** we was — no support
- **3.** we be — no support
- **4.** we is — no support

<!-- .why -->
**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/t2/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa no -->

### Test 3 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t3}

<!-- .q -->
What would happen if you put "The cat chased the mouse" into the passive but changed the tense by mistake?

- **1.** Nothing, as the tense never matters at all — no support
- **2.** You might write "is chased" and lose the mark — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** It would turn into a question, not a sentence — **← Mova's choice** · score 4
- **4.** It would turn into a fronted adverbial — score 4

<!-- .why -->
**Why:** It took the question to ask what happens next. It chose option 3 with score 4, tied with another option at 4 (the first shown, or the one claiming less beyond what it knows, wins). Its support: lesson 52, line 12: «In the passive, the thing the action happens to comes first: "The cat chased the mouse" becomes "The mouse was chased by the cat."», reached through what followed the sentence the question matched. What matched: the same action «become» (+4). The right option, 2, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/t3/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa no -->

### Test 4 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t4}

<!-- .q -->
A cartoon says, "A semicolon's just a fancy comma, stick it anywhere." Fix it.

- **1.** The cartoon is right; anywhere works — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** It joins two linked full sentences — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** It replaces every single full stop — no support
- **4.** It goes after every third word — no support

<!-- .why -->
**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/t4/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa no -->

### Test 5 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t5}

<!-- .q -->
Which sentence uses an adverb?

- **1.** The boy was very loud. — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The loud boy laughed. — no support
- **3.** The boy's laugh was loud. — no support
- **4.** The boy laughed loudly. — **✓ the right answer** · no support

<!-- .why -->
**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/t5/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa ok -->

### Test 6 · ★ · right ✓ {#t6}

<!-- .q -->
"Sod it, I'll just guess the lot," says Dan, with 10 minutes left. What would help more?

- **1.** Reading each question fully and checking — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** Starting again from the very beginning — no support
- **3.** Guessing everything and leaving early — no support
- **4.** Rubbing out all of his answers — no support

<!-- .why -->
**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/t6/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa no -->

### Test 7 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t7}

<!-- .q -->
Which sentence is in the passive?

- **1.** Sam will break the window tomorrow. — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** The window was broken by Sam. — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Sam is breaking the window. — no support
- **4.** Sam broke the window. — no support

<!-- .why -->
**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/t7/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa no -->

### Test 8 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t8}

<!-- .q -->
"Circle the word that is NOT an adjective: tall, happy, slowly, orange." Which word?

- **1.** happy — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** slowly — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** orange — no support
- **4.** tall — no support

<!-- .why -->
**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/t8/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa no -->

### Test 9 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t9}

<!-- .q -->
Which sentence is punctuated correctly?

- **1.** Later, that day it snowed — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Later that day, it snowed. — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **3.** Later that day; it snowed. — no support
- **4.** Later that day it, snowed. — no support

<!-- .why -->
**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/t9/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa no -->

### Test 10 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t10}

<!-- .q -->
Rewrite "Mum baked a cake" in the passive.

- **1.** A cake is baked by Mum. — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Mum was baking a cake. — no support
- **3.** Mum had baked a cake today. — no support
- **4.** A cake was baked by Mum. — **✓ the right answer** · no support

<!-- .why -->
**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/t10/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa no -->

### Test 11 · ★ · wrong ✗ {#t11}

<!-- .q -->
"Quickly, the boy, who was late, ran to school." Which word is the adverb, and where is it?

- **1.** "school", at the end — no support
- **2.** "late", in the middle — no support
- **3.** "boy", fronted at the start — **← Mova's choice** · score 1
- **4.** "Quickly", fronted at the start — **✓ the right answer** · no support

<!-- .why -->
**Why:** It took the question to ask which statement is true. It chose option 3 with score 1, the only option with support. Its support: lesson 30, line 2: «Jack writes «The boy which lives next door.» Which is for things, so it should be «The boy who lives next door.» Gran in Yorkshire says, «That's the lass what…», reached through the option's own match among the sentences about the question's things. What matched: the same doer «door» (+1). The right option, 4, found no support in what it remembers. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/t11/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa no -->

### Exam question 1 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e1}

<!-- .q -->
Identify the word class of "quickly" in the sentence "The fox ran quickly."

- **1.** Noun — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** Preposition — no support
- **3.** Adjective — no support
- **4.** Adverb — **✓ the right answer** · no support

<!-- .why -->
**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/e1/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa ok -->

### Exam question 2 · formal language · right ✓ {#e2}

<!-- .q -->
It is given that a sentence reads "The dog chased the ball." Select its correct rendering in the passive voice.

- **1.** The ball was chased by the dog. — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The dog has chased the ball. — no support
- **3.** The dog was chasing the ball. — no support
- **4.** The ball is chased by the dog. — no support

<!-- .why -->
**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/e2/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa no -->

### Exam question 3 · formal language · wrong ✗ {#e3}

<!-- .q -->
Ascertain which of the following constitutes the Standard English form required in the examination.

- **1.** We be late. — **← Mova's choice** · no support
- **2.** We is late. — no support
- **3.** We were late. — **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **4.** We was late again. — no support

<!-- .why -->
**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/e3/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- div qa ok -->

### Exam question 4 · formal language · right ✓ {#e4}

<!-- .q -->
Determine the punctuation mark that may properly conjoin two closely related independent clauses.

- **1.** The semicolon — **← Mova's choice** · **✓ the right answer** · no support
- **2.** The apostrophe — no support
- **3.** The hyphen — no support
- **4.** The question mark — no support

<!-- .why -->
**Why:** No option found support in what it remembers, so it guessed: it took the first option shown. · [the question and its options parsed, with trees and pragmatics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/52-sats-grammar-punctuation-and-spelling-paper/e4/)

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [51. SATs: the reading paper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/51-sats-the-reading-paper/)
- next →: [53. Writing assessment and the "Year 6 panic"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/53-writing-assessment-and-the-year-6-panic/)
- ↑ back to [English](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/)