Your written English is far better than mine. You write well Jsmth321 IMVHO.

When I used to take the Greyhound in and out of Vancouver I'd sometimes have the breakfast wraps in Union Station McDonalds, back when those were a new thing. Then, as now, McDonalds is only my choice if there is nothing else. n.........
At this point I knocked over a beer glass containing a Lemon Hart and Diet Coke and about 6 ice cubes sending some into the keyboard and the rest across the table in front of me, some running between the leaves of the table onto the floor. Rather than swear (what use, really? no one but the cat to hear) I shouted "Tragedy! Tragedy! Oh what foul circumstance! Oh what pernicious fate!" Sometimes I crack myself up.
Esduiat keyubnoasrtsd kbnasckertesd, ghoatatas rtep[lasce. (Edit: keyboard knackered, gotta replace)
That was easy. Microsoft ergonomic out, and Fellowes ergonomic in. This one is nice; a little smaller but that isn't a bad thing.

It's the proper rules of the language that I am not good at. I will do my best, but English has always been my weak subject when it comes to proper rules and such.

https://www.lpitest.ca/test-format/

......past participial, adjective, adverbs, determiners, relative clauses, transitive verbs.....
I haven't a clue about these things...in fact while googling to remind myself of some of the stuff that's meaningless to me, three of those I never even heard of.

So if I take a test and I'm asked to highlight one of these things and others, or I have to give my own example of one of these things I'll be completely lost.

But I can write properly though. I know, for example, you're not supposed to begin a sentence with an 'and' or a 'because' (even though these rules are somewhat relaxed these days) but while I know one isn't supposed to do it, I have no clue what it's called when it's done.

At school I was taught the dos and don'ts without knowing the terms. And I see there's disagreement on that expression.

We had to learn all those strange rules of the language to get our school leaving exams in the UK. Consequently, I once knew them all, and did well.

But .................................

I promptly forgot what they all meant after I left school.

Like Bristol, I remember vaguely some of them, but I'm darned if I know what they are called, so, like him, I would fail any exam that asked that kind of question!!

So we would all be in the same boat!

Most of the rules we learned we never knowingly use. There are some words etc that get on my nerves. "I seen" 'youse' and the plural of 'text' when it is spoken sounds like 'text is'. Doug Ford says it that way so it is maybe how the 'folks' talk.

Yup.

I do remember in Primary school, learning that a verb was a 'doing' word. I can imagine an exam asking something technical about a 'doing' word.

We must have gone to the same primary school A verb was a 'doing' word, an adjective a 'describing' word, and a noun was a 'thing'.

The only mistakes I see that stand out in your posts are misuse of commas and apostrophes and occasionally using then when than is called for. You can correct that.
I think I found a mistake in the test! In Reading Comprehension, Part B, Selection 3, they say "However, less readers think" when the word lest is indicated. A slightly drunken caretaker probably shouldn't have to proof-read these tests.

Kelston Road, Keynsham...as in


and the football pools man Horace Batchelor.

I think yours was a different school though.

There is a Novocastrian in this picture as well (I suspect the rabbit).

And I haven't a clue why this sort of test is even relevant to the training, as long as someone can read and understand English should not matter if they know all the rules of the language, not trying to be an English major here. lol

I am studying the best I can for the test, if I don't pass it with a 24, will just have to figure out what to then job wise lol

Yes caretaker, then and than confuse me along with other words at times, in high school I barely made it out of English classes, only subject they make you take for 4 years every semester. Take out the 8 semesters of English in high school and I have like a B- to C+ average, English classes brought my overall GPA lower as I really struggled through it.

I remember being told in class that English is a stupidly complicated language, with many illogical twists of grammar and meaning not present in other languages. Think of how hard it is for those learning it as a second language!

I imagine its difficult and considering the trouble I have had trying to learn other languages I can only imagine how pain in the rear English is. The rules and grammar of English are in my view too difficult for most to master unless they spent a large part of their life learning, studying it all.