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For the grammar nazis - How smart are you?
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Binch Lover



Joined: 25 Jul 2005

PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 4:29 pm    Post subject: For the grammar nazis - How smart are you? Reply with quote

This is a fairly easy quiz from the BBC website.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4246472.stm

I got 19/20.
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Underwaterbob



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 4:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's more of a spelling quiz than a grammar quiz.
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Underwaterbob



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i got 18. i messed up the two first grammar questions, but i got all the spelling right.
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ReeseDog



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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. Smile
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newteacher



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 6:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

19/20

Can't believe I missed accomodation.

There, I did it again. Or did I?
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ReeseDog



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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