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Binch Lover
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Underwaterbob

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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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This was posted here a couple months ago. I got a 20/20. I am a grammar nazi. |
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ReeseDog

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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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That quiz sucks. It's written as though it were to be administered to fourth graders. It's reads as if written by a fourth grader.
The quiz twice presents two sentences and asks you to choose the correct one. How does one answer when neither is correct?
How does one answer when there is more than one correct choice offered?
Codswallop. |
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greedy_bones

Joined: 01 Jul 2007 Location: not quite sure anymore
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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That's more of a spelling quiz than a grammar quiz. |
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Underwaterbob

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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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ReeseDog wrote: |
That quiz sucks. It's written as though it were to be administered to fourth graders. It's reads as if written by a fourth grader.
The quiz twice presents two sentences and asks you to choose the correct one. How does one answer when neither is correct?
How does one answer when there is more than one correct choice offered?
Codswallop. |
So what did you get? |
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ReeseDog

Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Location: Classified
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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Underwaterbob wrote: |
ReeseDog wrote: |
That quiz sucks. It's written as though it were to be administered to fourth graders. It's reads as if written by a fourth grader.
The quiz twice presents two sentences and asks you to choose the correct one. How does one answer when neither is correct?
How does one answer when there is more than one correct choice offered?
Codswallop. |
So what did you get? |
I scored a nineteen, but I'm not too sure about the one I missed. There was more than one correct choice.
Still, nineteen ain't bad, right? |
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Underwaterbob

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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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ReeseDog wrote: |
I scored a nineteen, but I'm not too sure about the one I missed. There was more than one correct choice.
Still, nineteen ain't bad, right? |
Pretty damn good. Which question did you think had two correct answers? I think the most difficult one was the one asking what was missing from the sentence and the answer was a hyphen. All the others seemed pretty cut and dry. If annoying. I wasn't 100% sure of the spelling of questionnaire but got it right. |
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ciccone_youth

Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Location: Japan
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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i got 18. i messed up the two first grammar questions, but i got all the spelling right. |
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ReeseDog

Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Location: Classified
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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Underwaterbob wrote: |
ReeseDog wrote: |
I scored a nineteen, but I'm not too sure about the one I missed. There was more than one correct choice.
Still, nineteen ain't bad, right? |
Pretty damn good. Which question did you think had two correct answers? I think the most difficult one was the one asking what was missing from the sentence and the answer was a hyphen. All the others seemed pretty cut and dry. If annoying. I wasn't 100% sure of the spelling of questionnaire but got it right. |
I missed the one that gave the correct answer for "He gave me food for thought" as metaphor. It satisfies the definition for alliteration, too, however weak. A poor metaphor, in my estimation, if it even qualifies. Again, I thought it a pretty poor test.
Several questions had no ending punctuation at all on either sentence choice. Therefore neither was correct. We knew what they meant, though.  |
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newteacher

Joined: 31 May 2007
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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17/20
I got the hyphen one wrong and two of the spelling questions. My spelling has always been awful. |
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Underwaterbob

Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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Speaking of spelling. I'll never forgive my fourth grade teacher Mr. Hatfield for telling me my "a" looked like a "u" in the word strange. It was my only spelling (non)mistake that year and that little b*tch Karen got the spelling award. Of course I know strange is spelled with an a! One of my earliest memories. |
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Pink Freud
Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Location: Daegu
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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19/20
Can't believe I missed accomodation.
There, I did it again. Or did I? |
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ReeseDog

Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Location: Classified
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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Pink Freud wrote: |
19/20
Can't believe I missed accomodation.
There, I did it again. Or did I? |
You did it again. |
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Bramble

Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Location: National treasures need homes
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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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20/20
Too bad "harassment" wasn't on the quiz. (I have Dave's to thank for finally teaching me how to spell that word.) |
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Underwaterbob

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Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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It's weird how I can easily remember how to spell pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis and antidisestablishmentarianism, but words like accommodate and questionnaire are a major pain in the a$$. |
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