Technically we could use 'honest' but it sounds a little strange to most native speakers and this is probably because 'honest' is a positive word and why would you apologise for being honest. But 'blunt' has the same meaning but with negative connotation and so we can apologise for being 'blunt'. Hope that helps.😊 You can make a profit and a loss - no problem😉.
I am Canadian and my only answer that was different from your answers was that I would say the company had a loss. I can see using had and made interchangeably with a profit, but think it would be very uncommon for us to say the company made something that constitutes a negative on a balance sheet.
Sorry George, I was a bit late coming back on this. I understand that 'making a loss' might sound a little strange but that is certainly what we say in British English and you can check this in a good dictionary. We also talk of 'loss-making companies' ie. unprofitable companies. I have never heard of 'loss-having companies'.🙂
@@learnenglishwithmrk6115 ". We also talk of 'loss-making companies' ie. unprofitable companies. I have never heard of 'loss-having companies'." Good try at deflection from my original point. "'loss-making companies'" sounds like a rather stilted way of saying what is actually meant by "unprofitable companies".
I got 20 out 20... so proud of myself. I was second guessing the "let the cat out of the bag" but then I thought of "Curiosity kills the cat", so I guessed right lol. On the brighter notes, I've learned something new, so thank you.
I stumbled upon this video, don’t know how as I am a fluent english speaker, and I just wanted to point out that in question 12 the answer was “I have saved” but the voice read out “I’ve saved”. This may be confusing to some people at it can make it seem like d, saved, is the correct answer if you don’t know that I’ve is the short form of I have or if you simply missed the I’ve and heard I. Overall cool video I imagine it has been helpful to people!
I made 18/20. One of my mistakes was in question 17. I don’t know the difference between seldom and often grammatically, that’s why I couldn’t decide. Because of the inverted rule, I omitted the other choices. The other mistake was in question 19. I don’t know what it means here since only native speakers understand it probably. I’m from Turkey by the way.
I got 18 out of 20 which means my current level is C1. For me who has been studying English for just 2 years, it was quite surprising. Thank you for this video
20 correct answers with ease. It’s so much fun to see that my ‘feeling’ for the language is still strong even if I’m not verbal with it anymore. I still opt to exclusively read English books since I dislike the way my first language sounds. It just doesn’t flow as nicely. Great video, thank you for the quiz :)
Im spanish and ive got 15/20, im just 13 so, i guess its quite suprising because ive learned english by my own talking to native ppl since i was a child.
I got score 13 out of 20. I am intermediate level. I will be trying push for upper intermediate level. I am stuck the same level. Thank you so much for your quiz.
I got 13/20. I'm Indonesian and English is my 3rd language. At least now I knew my level is Intermediate (B2). I have to swotted up to get to the next level. Thank you.
I got 16 out of 20, i didn't know about the CAT and the bag lol, i didn't really find any sense in any of the options but at least I've learned something new :) B2 is not bad for someone who just learned English by his own
I'm a german native speaker. A long time ago I learned to use present perfect continuous after certain indicative words like "so far". Could someone please elaborate, why the answer "I have been saving ..." is wrong?
Present perfect continuous tends to be used when things are not complete. So you can say 'I've been saving up to buy a car.' But you would have to say 'I've saved £500 so far'. That's the amount competed. That's brief but I hope it helps.
Sure. After 'so far' we usually used the present perfect, not past simple. But we cannot use present perfect continuous (b) here because we are talking about how much has been done, not the activity. Eg. I have painted the house = I have finished. I have been painting the house = this is my recent activity but it's not finished. Check out my video quiz on present perfect simple v continuous. 😀😀Hope that helps.
Relative clauses can be tricky. This is a 'non-defining' relative clause ( note the commas) so you can't use 'that'. For more info on this check out my quiz on 'Relative Clauses'.
Fair point. It's difficult to set the right time for everyone. Some people get bored if they have to wait too long. That's why I encourage people to use the pause button if it's too fast.
16/20 #13 I honestly feel that you can also use may not in this context as can't would have been better if "they don't exist" ended with an exclamation point (!)? #15 did not see a coma (,) otherwise option c) "that" would have worked. #16 I chose "had" because it's the past #18 I chose "absolutely" but would A, B and C would be OK in that sentence regardless?
I feel in some places more answers could be correct, and it's more like finding the most probable answer. Like 6:28, I don't see what's wrong with a) and can imagine some far fetched context in which c) or d) would apply.
That's true. It's very often possible to think of some obscure situation where a particular structure is possible but very unusual. Q 18 is all about collocation, which becomes much more important when trying to reach an advanced level of English.
@@learnenglishwithmrk6115 I had to look up what 'collocation' means even though I like to pretend my English level is near native. ;-) I agree that the "correct" answers were clearly more probable/conventional.
As a native english speaker that for some reason decided to take this test. Question 20 absolutely has 3 correct answers. While i agree that "blunt" is the most suitable answer, Truthful and Honest are both completely acceptable.
Although I can’t explain why exactly made a loss is right, I watch a lot of finance related videos and 100% of the time they say made a loss in regards of money. I think had a loss would be like if they lost some property or employees, while made a loss is in terms of money. If you earn some money you don’t say “I have/had money” but “I make/made money”, same goes for profit/loss - “I made a profit/loss”
12/20 I feel more as b1 I talk every day in english and I dont have very much problem at talking just think a test don't show the real level I am sorry
@@learnenglishwithmrk6115 i actually agree with the comment above that "couldn't have" is a better choice. "Can't have"may be grammatically correct but it's a poor choice.
@@dianagorospe2892 Certainly in British English both 'cant have seen a ghost' and 'couldn't have seen a ghost' are both perfectly acceptable. 'Couldn't have' tends to be used more the further back in time an event happened. But if an event happened recently 'can't have' would sound more natural. E.g. 'You can't have finished already!' Does that make sense?
everybody saying I got this score or that score, but that truth is that there is a couple of answers that are wrong for example 13 and 15 and even the number 18 you could use another answer...so this quiz is no so realistic
I think that "honest" in the last sentence is also right and you make a profit not loss.
Technically we could use 'honest' but it sounds a little strange to most native speakers and this is probably because 'honest' is a positive word and why would you apologise for being honest. But 'blunt' has the same meaning but with negative connotation and so we can apologise for being 'blunt'. Hope that helps.😊 You can make a profit and a loss - no problem😉.
I am Canadian and my only answer that was different from your answers was that I would say the company had a loss. I can see using had and made interchangeably with a profit, but think it would be very uncommon for us to say the company made something that constitutes a negative on a balance sheet.
i never had heard "the company made a lost" it sounds weird, usually the expresión is " the company had a lost".
@@al.medina2748 , I think that is what I wrote.
Sorry George, I was a bit late coming back on this. I understand that 'making a loss' might sound a little strange but that is certainly what we say in British English and you can check this in a good dictionary. We also talk of 'loss-making companies' ie. unprofitable companies. I have never heard of 'loss-having companies'.🙂
@@learnenglishwithmrk6115 ". We also talk of 'loss-making companies' ie. unprofitable companies. I have never heard of 'loss-having companies'." Good try at deflection from my original point. "'loss-making companies'" sounds like a rather stilted way of saying what is actually meant by "unprofitable companies".
I got 20 out 20... so proud of myself. I was second guessing the "let the cat out of the bag" but then I thought of "Curiosity kills the cat", so I guessed right lol. On the brighter notes, I've learned something new, so thank you.
That's great and so you should be proud! Well done!
Don't buy the cat in the bag.
Can you give your numver phone to me. I want speaking english with you.
I stumbled upon this video, don’t know how as I am a fluent english speaker, and I just wanted to point out that in question 12 the answer was “I have saved” but the voice read out “I’ve saved”. This may be confusing to some people at it can make it seem like d, saved, is the correct answer if you don’t know that I’ve is the short form of I have or if you simply missed the I’ve and heard I. Overall cool video I imagine it has been helpful to people!
Thanks Nicole and fair point. 🙂
If you have any questions, please leave them here and I'll try to get back to you with an answer. 😀
Hi everyone
Who will tell me
Yellow color-is it mean A1beginner level?
@@Aida-sk4bs That's right. Beginner to Elementary.
I made 18/20. One of my mistakes was in question 17. I don’t know the difference between seldom and often grammatically, that’s why I couldn’t decide. Because of the inverted rule, I omitted the other choices. The other mistake was in question 19. I don’t know what it means here since only native speakers understand it probably. I’m from Turkey by the way.
Great result!
I got 18 out of 20 which means my current level is C1. For me who has been studying English for just 2 years, it was quite surprising. Thank you for this video
Very well done!
I agree with George Jenkins: The company "had" a loss. In addition, #14 requires a semi-colon or new sentence before "otherwise."
20 correct answers with ease. It’s so much fun to see that my ‘feeling’ for the language is still strong even if I’m not verbal with it anymore. I still opt to exclusively read English books since I dislike the way my first language sounds. It just doesn’t flow as nicely. Great video, thank you for the quiz :)
That's great to hear. Thank you.
20/20. I am Danish and English is my fifth language (after Danish, Swedish, French and German).
Well done.😊
Hello professor
Thanks a lot for your help and advice
You're welcome!
Im spanish and ive got 15/20, im just 13 so, i guess its quite suprising because ive learned english by my own talking to native ppl since i was a child.
That's great. You've done well!
I've got 16/20. My level's upper intermediate (B2). Many thanks!❤ It's really interesting. Good luck!☺
That's great and thank you!
Mee too I've got 17/ 20 😊😉👌🏻
Thanks gfor sharing. I'm upper
I got score 13 out of 20. I am intermediate level. I will be trying push for upper intermediate level.
I am stuck the same level. Thank you so much for your quiz.
Well done! Keep going!🙂
Em would nr 13 work with couldn't ? For some reason "can't" just seems to bother me
You could use both 'can't' and 'couldn't' in this case.🙂
I got 13/20. I'm Indonesian and English is my 3rd language. At least now I knew my level is Intermediate (B2). I have to swotted up to get to the next level. Thank you.
You're very welcome
17 /20.
I have been learning English from scratch for only two years.
BTW, it is my fifth language.
Thanks.
You've done well!👍
My level is intermediate😭😭😔😪i got 13 of 20...
Nothing wrong with that. Your English may not be perfect but I am sure you are able to communicate and that's the important thing. 🙂
15/20 I am confident that I will reach C2 level very soon... Please upload more videos.. thank you
I'm sure you will! You're welcome!
I got 16 out of 20, i didn't know about the CAT and the bag lol, i didn't really find any sense in any of the options but at least I've learned something new :) B2 is not bad for someone who just learned English by his own
Well done!
I'm a german native speaker. A long time ago I learned to use present perfect continuous after certain indicative words like "so far". Could someone please elaborate, why the answer "I have been saving ..." is wrong?
Present perfect continuous tends to be used when things are not complete. So you can say 'I've been saving up to buy a car.' But you would have to say 'I've saved £500 so far'. That's the amount competed. That's brief but I hope it helps.
@@learnenglishwithmrk6115 Understood! Thank you very much for that clarification!
4:15 may someone explain me how do B and D not work?
Sure. After 'so far' we usually used the present perfect, not past simple. But we cannot use present perfect continuous (b) here because we are talking about how much has been done, not the activity. Eg. I have painted the house = I have finished. I have been painting the house = this is my recent activity but it's not finished. Check out my video quiz on present perfect simple v continuous. 😀😀Hope that helps.
@@learnenglishwithmrk6115 Thank you! I understood!
@@sgrp2706 You're welcome!
Why it's not (plays) in question ? If sentence have phrase like 'Every' 'regular' we use simple present right.
Yes, that's right. We use present simple here - I/You/We/They play and He/She/It plays. I hope that helps.
This is actually really hard. I'm a native English speaker (from the uk) and I got at least 3 or 4of them wrong 😭
So I guess your grammatic is awful
as a turkish who is trying to learn english i got 14/20. im kinda dissapointed and kinda proud of myself.
That's a good score. You should be proud!
Can you explain in question 15 why "which" is supposedly the only right answer?? "that" is grammatically correct as well.
Relative clauses can be tricky. This is a 'non-defining' relative clause ( note the commas) so you can't use 'that'. For more info on this check out my quiz on 'Relative Clauses'.
Allocated time must be a little bit more to give a chance to think.
Fair point. It's difficult to set the right time for everyone. Some people get bored if they have to wait too long. That's why I encourage people to use the pause button if it's too fast.
@@learnenglishwithmrk6115 🙏
16/20
#13 I honestly feel that you can also use may not in this context as can't would have been better if "they don't exist" ended with an exclamation point (!)?
#15 did not see a coma (,) otherwise option c) "that" would have worked.
#16 I chose "had" because it's the past
#18 I chose "absolutely" but would A, B and C would be OK in that sentence regardless?
I was stuck on #18 too but chose the right answer. I was like 60% bitterly, 40% totally, absolutely seems like over the top disappointed
i did 13/20😢 (I am Turkish)
That seems pretty good to me!
My first language is Spanish but I have a question. Why does answer 19 only have to be d) cat
Why can't it any of the others?
It's an idiomatic expression meaning to let a secret out. Substituting other animals would not really make sense to a native speaker. 🙂
@@learnenglishwithmrk6115 ohh thanks for responding I learned something new.
I feel in some places more answers could be correct, and it's more like finding the most probable answer. Like 6:28, I don't see what's wrong with a) and can imagine some far fetched context in which c) or d) would apply.
That's true. It's very often possible to think of some obscure situation where a particular structure is possible but very unusual. Q 18 is all about collocation, which becomes much more important when trying to reach an advanced level of English.
@@learnenglishwithmrk6115 I had to look up what 'collocation' means even though I like to pretend my English level is near native. ;-) I agree that the "correct" answers were clearly more probable/conventional.
Wow, I scored 19 out of 20!!...failed "made a loss"
Excellent!
same
Exactly the same.
Agree. One does not make a loss ... but one can have a loss. Bad question.
Thank you sir..
You're welcome! 😀
American native speaker, this popped up in my recommendations so I tried it.. Got questions 13 and 18 wrong lol.
I'm a Brit so I expect I'd get a few wrong if I tried an American version. 😀
I got 15 thank you so much
You are very welcome. Good result!
my level is intermediate B1
As a native english speaker that for some reason decided to take this test. Question 20 absolutely has 3 correct answers. While i agree that "blunt" is the most suitable answer, Truthful and Honest are both completely acceptable.
I agree. Acceptable but not perfect. And to get 20/20 in this test your English would need to be perfect. It's all about collocation.
i got only 12/20 but it's good too
16/20. (B2)
Good result!
Question 13. Perhaps more than 1 answrr?????
Well, c and d are grammatically possible but they don't go with the rather emphatic statement - 'They don't exist.'
My score is 15 /20 thanks good quiz 👍
Thank you 😊
I got 17 out of 20
😍
Well done!
@@learnenglishwithmrk6115 thank you☺
I score is 16 out of 20 rly surprised about on my scores thz so much 🥰🎉
I got a 19/20!😁 C1+, wish me best at my test💗
Brilliant!
Shouldn’t it say “I’ve been living in London for 5 years now”? Since it is a continuous state?
Fair point. Present perfect continuous would certinly be very appropriate although present perfect simple is also good. Basically both are correct.
@@learnenglishwithmrk6115 Thanks.
i got 11,B1.
17 correct, i'd have 18 but i wasn't sure between 2 answers...so...still good i think😁
Very good!
@@learnenglishwithmrk6115 thank you...i'm reading english books only, trying to watch movies in english with english subs so i believe it helps😊
Got 17 😁.. and I'm pretty sure watching hollywood movies helps a lot
I'm sure you're right!
17 correct .
I dispute #16 ... the company "had" a loss ... is perfectly legit and preferable to "made" a loss. Otherwise I aced it.
Although I can’t explain why exactly made a loss is right, I watch a lot of finance related videos and 100% of the time they say made a loss in regards of money. I think had a loss would be like if they lost some property or employees, while made a loss is in terms of money. If you earn some money you don’t say “I have/had money” but “I make/made money”, same goes for profit/loss - “I made a profit/loss”
@@prikulis10 I like your explanation.
My level is intermediate😀
I'm from Pakistan but I got 18 /20 correct
Well done!
12/20 I feel more as b1 I talk every day in english and I dont have very much problem at talking just think a test don't show the real level I am sorry
Fair point. This video is really to test roughly how accurate you are in grammar and vocabulary - not speaking, listening, reading and writing.
I got 17 out of 20 but it could've been 18.thanks
Well done!
I got 15 out of 20🙂
got 19/20 btw it's "Couldn't have "! then i would have gotten 20/20
Well done!
That's a confusing statement. I've never heard someone used "can't have seen", it sounds so unnatural.
@@dianagorospe2892 Modal verbs in the past can be tricky. Check out my other video quizzes on modal verbs.
@@learnenglishwithmrk6115 i actually agree with the comment above that "couldn't have" is a better choice. "Can't have"may be grammatically correct but it's a poor choice.
@@dianagorospe2892 Certainly in British English both 'cant have seen a ghost' and 'couldn't have seen a ghost' are both perfectly acceptable. 'Couldn't have' tends to be used more the further back in time an event happened. But if an event happened recently 'can't have' would sound more natural. E.g. 'You can't have finished already!' Does that make sense?
the teacher himself need a grammar course
🤣
I think it was a stupid test .cause you can't test someone's speaking skills just by 20 questions that even native speakers may answer them wrong
Yes, if you read the introduction it explains that the test focuses on grammar and vocab - not speaking, listening, reading or writing. 😉
19/20 lmao, although with the one I got wrong it was obvious once you said it, I just hate having a timer.
Im b2 15/20
19 out of 20
Great result!
B2
Advanced ))
I got 16 out of 20
Score 17/20 B2 😢
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The cat one is some utter bullshit. Never heard that phrasing before.
18/20 🤗
everybody saying I got this score or that score, but that truth is that there is a couple of answers that are wrong for example 13 and 15 and even the number 18 you could use another answer...so this quiz is no so realistic
Interesting. Love to hear your explanations as to why 13, 15 and 18 might be wrong. 🙂
I'm upper intermediate, is this good? I got 16/20😊
Looks good to me. 😃
@@learnenglishwithmrk6115 thank you so much i'm still learning and i'm doing my best ! Wish me luck^^
I got 15
Does thus one work if I studied Americian English?
This test is based on British English. It would be interesting to see how well an American native speaker coped with it.
19/20
Almost perfect!
I got 17 right... I got b2
19 out 20
17 out of 20
Great result!
C...totally
17😞
I got 17 out of 20😌....
I got 18/20
16/20
B...quiz
10😭 I'm so stupid😭
Just 11☹️
No worries. That's still pretty good! 😃
I've got 13 out of 20😞😞😞
B1😋
Chose expensivest👀
14
Excellent!
The answer for question 15 could be either B or C
Sorry, not C. Notice the commas. 😉
Dodgy question to put in though as when spoken both B or C would suffice
@@cole_b Yeah, while speaking both would be correct, it’s just the commas that makes C incorrect
Seldom...d
unfortunately, i am still 13 correct the answer
That's good! 😃
got 17 out of 20 ... I've learned sth... thanks
Good score!
I'm 13 years old.I've got 14.
Well done!😀
Made....a
6/20 😭
That's OK. I wish I could get to pre-intermediate level in another laguage! 😀
....
B2
I got 14/20
19/20
Well done!