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One way is to talk about the politics that brought it in (the New Report on Assessment and Accountability being hijacked by Michael Gove so that he could a) pursue his pet agenda of 'grammar' and b) to create a means of measuring teachers' 'performance' (their 'input') by testing children's 'performance' (their 'output'. Famous examples: Margaret Thatcher using the word ‘frit’; Ronald Reagan using the expression, ‘You ain’t seen nothing yet’. If you really wanted to find out if children could recognise this way of talking about the past, you could phrase the sentence in a much more helpful way. Writing like this is full of class-based assumptions based on the idea that this way of writing has the same status as say, a piece of formal scientific writing. But in fact, if Standard English is being nudged into how we speak, then it’s quite easy to use non-Standard forms when we are in formal situations.

But this gives them the problem of saying that such-and-such a sentence is a 'command' and another one is not - based on meaning alone. The easiest and most fun way to explore Standard English and non-Standard verb forms is to use a piece of fiction where the narration is in Standard and the dialogue is in non-Standard.

Registers are ‘varieties’ of a language which are each tied to a range of uses, in contrast with dialects, which are tied to groups of users. Such things are embedded in the most basic of stories that the children know, fairy tales like 'Cinderella' with their stark similarities and contrasts between people or between the ‘then’ and ‘now’ of the story. I got to this one and thought I knew the answer according to the ‘grammar’ that these examiners believe in. If you’re interested in a pencil case through which you can actually see your precious stationery, this is our top pick in the transparency department.

Agreed that ‘predicate’ is not in the glossary but maybe one or two keen 10/11 year olds figured that this phrase is a 'complement'.Another way to put this question is to ask something like, ‘Three of these questions don’t really make sense. The sentence: ‘You should bring a coat’ can be - purely on the basis of meaning - be a ‘command’ in the everyday sense. We had the ‘perfect’ (which is one way we can express something in the past) and then the ‘pluperfect’ which to my ears at least made it sound ‘even more in the past’ as if it was ‘perfect-plus’.