Because Grammar Polls Seem to Do So Well.

[tablesaw]

The following poll was inspired by some conversation on ifmud about questions on the Cambridge exam for the Certificate of Proficiency in English.

Please don't look at the answers of others before you submit your own. Also, do not use any references. if you don't know an answer, just make your best guess or write "I don't know" as appropriate.

[Poll #299625]

Comments

Sample papers

[ghira.livejournal.com]

Sample papers in the "CPE" section of
http://www.cambridge-efl.org/support/dloads/ums.cfm

[limax.livejournal.com]

Ew. It's a poll that wasn't put behind a link.

[veek.livejournal.com]

I lied, I think - I've seen seawalls. The most spectacular one, for waves to crash into, was in Salerno, Italy (tiny fishing town an hour south of Naples).

[joenotcharles.livejournal.com]

In hindsight, I should have used my "small dyke" answer for seawall.

Is it just me, or were the "my new sailing gear" questions missing an article? Shouldn't it have been "getting ready for my first long trip"?

"getting to grips" sounds correct but kind of strange. "coming to grips" is what I always use.

And "quite the money" - the only one that makes sense in non-British English would be "craved", and that doesn't work with "quite". ("longed" and "yearned" both need "for", of course.)

[tahnan.livejournal.com]

So what were the ostensibly right answers?

[tablesaw]

I'm hoping to get to that tonight.