How good is your grammar?

15/16, but then I had done exactly what I used to impress on my kids NOT to do in exams and tests - failed to read a question properly! *
In impatient haste as usual, when asked to pick the Right one, I picked the Wrong one. Or the other way around. An easy one, too. Probably because of so much foreign lingo study I did know what a gerund was.

*Talking of doing what you'd always been on at kids NOT to do, I used to urge mine NOT to leave homework, essays, etc. till the last minute.
So there was much hilarity from dds when I was doing an OU course and had failed to read the deadline info properly. Hence realising in a panic, at about 5 pm, that I only had until midnight to get an essay - for which I had done NOTHING - not just written, but also delivered to N London - and we were in SW London.
Cue dd in the car with me in her pyjamas at 11 something pm, still chortling at mum messing up, while directing me courtesy of the A to Z.
Nowadays it's all submitted online, but dds still laugh about that.

I too go 100% but must admit I looked up what a gerund was, so I really should have only got 99%.

Having said that my maths is rubbish so perhaps 99% is wrong . Over to you.

Actually, you and annodomini are right. The conditional "should have" in the firstclause should be followed by the past tense "were" in the second clause. To be fussy, as both are main clauses there should be a comma between the clauses or the word "that"

We were supposed to pick the right answer there. I fell into the trap too.

Rapped over the knuckles with a ruler by GNHQ JackyB!

Wrapped over the knuckles with a ruler
Rapped over the knuckles with a ruler
Rapt over the knuckles with a ruler

It looks as though I did confuse things with the cat's whiskers. I hadn't realised that green meant "this is the right answer" and red meant "this was your answer but it is wrong" - so double misunderstanding, first the question, then the correction. I shall now put on the dunce's cap and sit in the corner for the rest of the thread.

Yes, that bothered me, too, Jalima.

"You should have told me you are going to be there" sounds wrong, however it is spelt.

Did you notice my deliberate mistake?
An extra point if you did

I thought that too annodomini
Should it have have read
'You should have told me you were going to be there' ?

But perhaps I am wrong.

I'd be very ashamed if I'd got anything wrong. However, I thought that one question (3, I think) was poorly set and the grammar in the correct solution was questionable.

15 - but I should learn to read the question then I would have got 16!!

I got 13 too. A couple I realised after I'd already pressed the wrong one, 1 or 2 were guesswork

12 for me, but a couple of ‘kick myself’ mistakes and a couple of ‘haven’t got the foggiest’ answers.

Sorry Lucy X post

It's not difficult but can someone tell me what is wrong about "The cat's whiskers were askew"?

Nothing wrong with that. The question asked for the wrong one, and the three choices were:

The cats' whiskers....
The cats whiskers....
The cat's whiskers...

So the wrong one was the middle one; the other two are perfectly correct.

Not even going to try, ?

16 for me. I always hope I will be forgiven for errors.

It's not difficult but can someone tell me what is wrong about "The cat's whiskers were askew"?

I got 16, but have to say it isn't nearly as hard as the current grammar test in schools for eleven-year-olds. Not a fronted adverbial or subjunctive in sight. ?

I am not the only one not reading the question properly then.
The most important thing is to get your message across to the recipient so that your meaning is clear and unambigous.

A few hiccups with greengrocer's apostrophes might piss off the pedants but do not change the actual message.
Ignore any of mine. There are some of these I have always struggled with .

12/16. Not proud of that it would have helped if I had read the questions much more carefully.

But I still don't think I could have got them all correct.

Me too Greenfinch I got 13 so did better than I expected to.

14 but I did know all the correct answers. My problem was not paying attention to the questions. Must learn the difference between right and wrong!!