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    Quote Originally Posted by araucaria:
    Not clearly written?? Plain wrong in my book!!! Since when has 'might', an expression of modality, morphed into a conditional? As for 'in order to stay alive', there isn't even a subject, not to mention a finite verb - so how's that a clause? Correct answers arrived at by elimination only. And this is termed 'technical English'?

    Far more worrying are the mangled idioms produced by one who (I'd guess, sadly) is a native English teacher posting on this site.
    Name and shame then

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    Quote Originally Posted by araucaria:
    As for 'in order to stay alive', there isn't even a subject, not to mention a finite verb - so how's that a clause?
    Clauses without a verb are called a "verbless clause" or a "small clause".

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    10/14 obviously, I can't be a teacher.


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    12.
    Had to guess some of the questions though using logic as many of those grammatical terms were new to me!

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    Thankfully my pride as the resident pedant is intact. 14/14.

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    12/14.....Catholic School kid


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    http://www.dailywritingtips.com/50-t...to-write-good/

    While this site can't explain a "dangling particple" there are some good tips in this list.

    The contents of this post are an alphabetical arrangement of two lists that have been circulating among writers and editors for many years. In case you have missed out all this time, I’m sharing here the wit and wisdom of the late New York Times language maven William Safire and advertising executive and copywriter Frank LaPosta Visco.

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    13 here......annoyingly the 'show answers' link isn't working so I can't see where I went wrong!!


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    12/14 - and I had to guess a few! I did O- and A-level Latin at school and I didn't come across some of those!


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    Quote Originally Posted by closedcasket:
    12/14.....Catholic School kid
    ? You were being buggered during English? What?