IELTS A Lesson 7 Mini Test post activity 1

Is the email about language mistakes circulated on the Internet and available on the paper's website?

• True
• False

Did the publisher of Random House ask the author to write a book only on what constituted correct English?

• True
• False

Did the author's interest in language start when studying Spanish, Italian, and German?

• True
• False

Did the author's university studies focus primarily on the history of the English language?

• True
• False

Did the author find grammar fascinating and noticed the logic common to all languages known to him/her?

• True
• False

Did the author start sending round-robin emails to colleagues about grammar mistakes because they were common at the newspaper?

• True
• False

Did the author initially intend to make a living by writing about language?

• True
• False

Did the author study French, Latin, and German early on, and later studied English at university?

• True
• False

Did the author's interest in language begin at university, where they studied the history of the English language?

• True
• False

Did the author specialize in the history of the English language for the second part of their university degree?

• True
• False