Schools tests: arrogance, subservience and some courage

Presented recently with a grammar question for 11-year-olds, schools  minister Nick Gibb failed to distinguish between a word used as a preposition and as a subordinating conjunction. The sentence concerned was, ‘I went to the cinema after I’d eaten my dinner’. Mr. Gibb was asked whether the word ‘after’ was functioning as a subordinating conjunction or …

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