Grammar Quiz!

[Brian G Turner]

Go on, test your scores!
Grammatically Speaking

I got a poor 91%, after allowing myself to be tricked by the way the answers stopped being either/or a few questions in.

 

[Mouse]

You scored 100%: You’re a Grammar Guru!

The average score for all users is 91%.


I actually knew all the answers, but to be fair I read about the 'bored of' thing very recently. (Think it was an Oatmeal comic, I learn a lot of grammar from the Oatmeal!)

 

[ratsy]

I got 97% but to be honest I guessed on one of them and was right.

 

[Verse]

97%, I always get Who and Whom wrong.

 

[Ursa major]

"You scored 100%: You’re a Grammar Guru!"



I'm not convinced that saying "bored of", rather than "bored with" or "bored by", is as heinous a crime as saying "should of", "could of" or "would of".

* Expects immanent... er... imminent explulsion from the Pedant's Club. *

 

[Jo Zebedee]

88%. But I wouldn't say I'm the strongest grammatician in the world.

 

[alchemist]

94% -- I feel dirty. Bloody who and whom

Edit: I agree with Ursa too, but I'm merely a 94%er so nobody listen to me

 

[Abernovo]

100%, which surprised me. I'd agree with Ursa on the bored by/of issue.

 

[TheDustyZebra]

You scored 100%: You’re a Grammar Guru!

I also agree that "bored of" is not at all the same thing as "would of", etc. -- I don't use it, but I don't think it particularly bothers me.

 

[Pyan]

You scored 100%: You’re a Grammar Guru!

I was'nt sure with "who" and "whom" either, but seemed two get it wright!

 

[farntfar]

100%
Although I probably wouldn't have put an apostrophe in either one or two years time if they hadn't insisted.

 

[Ursa major]

I hesitated a bit at that.

Does time belong to months? Isn't a month merely a unit by which one might use to help describe the length of a period of time? If we were to measure time by the amount of sand that flows through the constriction in an hour glass, one might say, "I'll have finished this ice cream in six grams' time." It would be just as logical as to say, "I'll have finished this ice cream in three minutes' time."

There's an awful lot of time-owning going on here. It's owned by months and grams? Does the sand own it as well?


No wonder time flies: it's trying to flee from all these owners.

 

[nixie]

A surprising 94%, seeing as my grammar leaves a lot to be desired. I got me and I mixed up.

 

[farntfar]

It's a bit too apostrophe-wostrophe.

 

[Nerds_feather]

100%...grammar guru! But I'd be disappointed if I hadn't gotten that, as I've worked as a copyeditor on and off for a decade.

 

[jastius]

97% ... brain-freezed on 'its' and 'eg.' - (doh!)

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Heh. So no one ask me to crit again....

To be fair, I tend to comment mainly on characters and dialogue and leave the grammar to those better at it. Seems a good decision.

 

[AnyaKimlin]

94% I fell foul of effect and affect!

 

[chrispenycate]

"Well, yes, grammar guru, 100%, but we didn't really expect anything else," he exposes, not particularly modestly, "did we?"

 

[crow.]

You scored 100%: You’re a Grammar Guru!