I Just Took This Online Grammar Quiz

[+ Gar1eth]

I find two errors in it. Let's not reveal what they are openly. If you take it and find them, send me a Conversation. I'll reveal the answers on Thursday.

 

http://contently.com/strategist/2015/05/18/quiz-are-you-a-true-grammar-expert/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=paidsocial&utm_campaign=grammar-quizM

 

Gman

[+ sync]

That was fun...humbling, but fun.

[bigvalboy]

I find two errors in it. Let's not reveal what they are openly. If you take it and find them, send me a Conversation. I'll reveal the answers on Thursday.

 

http://contently.com/strategist/2015/05/18/quiz-are-you-a-true-grammar-expert/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=paidsocial&utm_campaign=grammar-quizM

 

Gman

 

I had about the same success rate as I did for the test for citizenship...

[+ Gar1eth]

I had about the same success rate as I did for the test for citizenship...

 

I only missed two on the Citizenship Test.

 

Gman

[maninsoma]

I got a C. I only noticed one incorrect answer, and I wouldn't so much say that the test's answer was incorrect as that there were actually two correct answers for that question.

[BabyBoomer]

I only missed two on the Citizenship Test.

 

Gman

 

Show off! I only got 90% on the Citizenship test. I don't know if I want to take the grammar test & possibly see my GPA drop below 3.

 

~ Boomer ~

[+ purplekow]

I would agree that one question has two correct answers, depending on how many people were met. I also believe there is another wrong answer.

[+ Gar1eth]

Show off! I only got 90% on the Citizenship test. I don't know if I want to take the grammar test & possibly see my GPA drop below 3.

 

~ Boomer ~

 

Life ain't going great. I have to take my wins where I gets them.

 

Gman

[whipped guy]

I would agree that one question has two correct answers, depending on how many people were met. I also believe there is another wrong answer.

I think we are in agreement about the first one (of course I chose the wrong correct answer) and I thought that one other was wrong as well. Consequently I ain't gonna loose any sleep regarding my score

[Lookin]

I only noticed one incorrect answer, and I wouldn't so much say that the test's answer was incorrect as that there were actually two correct answers for that question.

 

Yes, that's the only one I missed. I'm pretty sure either version is acceptable. MsGuy has always been my go-to comma man, but he's probably busy on Flirt4Free brushin' up on his Russian. http://www.boytoy.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif

 

I should have got that strange word definition wrong too, but even a blind hog gets an acorn once in a while. Or should that be once in awhile? http://r13.imgfast.net/users/1311/16/41/09/smiles/1814739676.gif

[gp0560]

Bad test, bad, bad, bad. One of the questions is about the origin of a word, another is about spelling, and a third is about a "word" definition. These are not grammar points, people.

[rvwnsd]

So I scored 86% (2 "incorrect.") One of the "incorrect" answers was to the Denzel Washington question. There are actually two correct answers.

 

Bad test, bad, bad, bad. One of the questions is about the origin of a word, another is about spelling, and a third is about a "word" definition. These are not grammar points, people.

 

Agreed. My other "incorrect" answer was to the question about the term coined by David Foster Wallace. That was not a grammar question.

[+ Gar1eth]

I agree about the symbols question and the definition of SNOOT as items that shouldn't have been on the test.

 

The 1st error I saw is in question #1 Chris' cars is perfectly correct.

 

The next error is in question #3. But it's not the answer. Taking what we know of Denzil Washington-the only answer that makes sense is the one they give. However the error is in the question itself. The sentence should have used 'whom' instead of 'who'.

[+ poolboy48220]

100%, but the "click anywhere to proceed" is incorrect. it would only proceed for me if I clicked on the answer I'd given.

[whipped guy]

100%, but the "click anywhere to proceed" is incorrect. it would only proceed for me if I clicked on the answer I'd given.

Well when I clicked anywhere to proceed I clicked so violently when nothing would happen that things did in fact proceed and I inadvertently clicked on a wrong answer.

 

 

So as noted above: bad, badder, baddest test ever!

[thickornotatall]

12 of 15....my husband always reminds me of my all time grammar flub....when I was talking way too fast..."these are the way mistakes are made"...

[tanman4u]

73% but only because I'm pretty good at picking correct answers on tests that I really have no idea about......or since this is a grammar topic.....about which I have no idea.

[liubit]

Two wrong answers: the symbols and the snoot.....I agree, those are not questions pertaining to grammar. Anyway, English is NOT my mother tongue.

[AdamSmith]

After ze Yale literature degree and 30+ years editing as part of the biz: grammar & usage & punctuation are what I say they are.

[gp0560]

After ze Yale literature degree and 30+ years editing as part of the biz: grammar & usage & punctuation are what I say they are.

 

No milord, I beg to differ. Grammar, usage, and punctuation are what I say they are. Furthermore, uncountable legions of gurus (guri?) each have (has?) the exact same (redundant?) opinion of their (his/her?) own judgement judgment.

 

Now let's fight about the serial comma. That'll truly throw this thread off the spool.

 

(<<Does "ze" indicate a degree in French?>> demande-t-il avec espoir.)

[AdamSmith]

Now let's fight about the serial comma. That'll truly throw this thread off the spool.

 

(<<Does "ze" indicate a degree in French?>> demande-t-il avec espoir.)

 

Will you marry me?

 

[AdamSmith]

PS My French is barely adequate to order raw beef off the menu.

[AdamSmith]

Now let's fight about the serial comma. That'll truly throw this thread off the spool.

 

...has thrown the flay rod apparently off the treadle. -- Monty Python

 

(Spoken as a child of the NC textile industry to whom that actually makes sense.)

[Guest Starbuck]

After ze Yale literature degree and 30+ years editing as part of the biz: grammar & usage & punctuation are what I say they are.

 

I thot in anuther, thred yew! sed yew went to Jale ... oh; no, weight a minut: that was that Kim Davis. Never mind.

[gp0560]

Will you marry me?

 

 

Before I answer, you deserve to know, milord, that I am no longer, how you say, ze virgin.