Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe LONDON, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- A survey finds that teachers in Britain have a shaky knowledge of grammar and punctuation. The testing was done by Kelly Services, an employment agency. Teachers ranked behind workers in the arts and about the same as those in the financial sector. Advertisement One question posed asked test takers to give the correct choice in the sentence "I implied/inferred/ensued from his art collection that he was extremely wealthy." Seven percent of teachers chose "implied" while the same percentage picked "ensued." Another 11 percent selected "none of the above" and 7 percent gave no answer. Only two-thirds gave the correct answer of "inferred." Apostrophes appear to give a lot of teachers trouble with many making the classic greengrocer's error, which gets its name from hand-made signs advertising "apple's" or "pear's" for sale. "The research bore out our suspicions about the U.K.'s poor levels of competency in grammar," said Steve Girdler, a Kelly Services director. "A logical solution would be to send people back to school, but closer inspection of the results revealed teachers were far from the grammar gurus they claimed to be."
