Grammar Test

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An interesting short quiz on grammar usage.

http://www.contentrules.com/blog/test-knowledge-grammar/?gob...

Melanie Dian

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grammar

By the way I only got 88% Right.

Melanie Dian

94%

Andrea Lena's picture

...that AND $1.79 will get me a medium hot chocolate at Dunkin Donuts!

  

To be alive is to be vulnerable. Madeleine L'Engle
Love, Andrea Lena

Muddled Language

I speak a mixture of USA English, UK English, and Middle Eastern English/Arabic. I like it that way and am unlikely to improve. :)

Gwendolyn

Pretty Trivial

You just have to remember that it is American (despite being hosted on a Canadian site), with the consequent insistence on "that" rather than "which" and a fetish for "whom" ;-)

John B.

Couple of other oddities too

erin's picture

Not sure those are just American. It's a stilted version of grammar but as one of the notes points out, these are the rules for formal grammar, like in writing a college paper. But the who/whom thing is just as dead in real life on this side of the Atlantic as on the other. And the that/which dichotomy does not actually work according to the formal rules, even in America. The other things are the me/I in compound objects/subjects -- informal American use frequently reverses these -- which makes just as much sense as a grammar rule because grammar rules do not have to be logical or we wouldn't have the weird conjugation of to be that we have. :)

Hugs,
Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

88%

but I never use ie and eg its what it is A fun little quiz

Goddess Bless you

Love Desiree

100%

Nah naah na nah naah! Trivial pursuit though. I'm more interested in what's being said rather than how it's said!!

The crazy bitch!

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I got 100% too

Patricia Marie Allen's picture

So it seems the site works on both sides of the pond. Which is great, however, when writing in a colloquial dialect all formal grammar goes out the window.

Hugs
Patricia

Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Ich bin eine Mann

See, that's how you can tell

See, that's how you can tell English isn't my native tongue: Only 91%.

Still a fun little game. Thanks for the link

I'm a Grammar Guru,

I'm a Grammar Guru, apparently.
But then I attended Jezzie Jailhouse (aka Jesmond Road Junior School) in West Hartlepool. If I'd got any of those wrong I'd expect to be haunted by Miss Exelby's ghost.

Ban nothing. Question everything.

Yay.

College graduate, several courses in writing, and 82% here.

Fail.

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Hope Eternal Reigns's picture

I find it hard to believe that I did so poorly on that test. When all is said and done I only scored 97%. I shall need to study more diligently from here on.

with love,

Hope

Once in a while I bare my soul, more often my soles bear me.

Nice and easy :)

I'm a Grammar Guru: 100%.

Having said that, most of the rules are frequently ignored by many people - 'of' is often used in all four examples where it shouldn't according to the test, "me and X" is far more common than "X and I", 'whom' is increasingly deprecated, while several other rules aren't adhered to because people have forgotten them since leaving school:

It's / Its.
[It is] / [All other uses]

They're eating their dinner over there.
[They are] eating [belongs to] dinner over [location].

You're picking your nose.
[You are] picking [belongs to] nose.

e.g. / i.e.
[For example - some (but not all) cases] / [In other words - this equals that - all cases].


As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!

Boring, even.

Athena N's picture

No need to be a native speaker to get a perfect score. ;)

Strictly speaking, though, most of the quiz wasn't about grammar.

Oops

Hypatia Littlewings's picture

It took me half way thru to realize you are supposed ta clicky on the arrow that is on the opposite side of what you are choosing. :p

Perfect score

Got 100%. My grandmother used to teach English and was a big stickler for grammar when I was young. Glad to see some of it stuck.

That said, I don't take formal rules quite as seriously since I learned why we don't split infinitives. Some 19th century grammarians considered Latin the perfect language, and since they didn't split infinitives neither should we. Of course, a latin infinitive is a single word, thus not splittable. As of yet, I have never heard a sentence in which a split infinitive makes the meaning unclear.

Anyone have an example?

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Titania

Lord, what fools these mortals be!

Cool

I got them all.

Joani (Goddess bless those Nuns and their pointers.) LOL

Who and whom

littlerocksilver's picture

I know the difference; however .... Ninety-four percent. I'm expecting my check any moment.

Portia

94%

Just missed the i.e. and e.g. questions. The rest of the test was relatively trivial for me.

Me was good on it

I got 97% -- and didn't agree with the one I got wrong.

It wasn't really a grammar test, but I did think it could be a good teaching tool --
that someone could go through it once a day until getting them all correct.

Kaleigh Way