Grammar Quiz!

[Gary Compton]

81%

Oh dear!

**Rings editor**

 

[Ivanya]

94%. I am deeply ashamed of myself.

 

[tinkerdan]

You scored 97%: You're a Grammar Guru!

My editors should take the bow on this one although they will be disappointed because I missed one. Still I must be learning something.

 

[Kylara]

100% I should hope so too! I take great pride in being good at grammar even if I sometimes ignore bits of it...

 

[Glisterspeck]

100%, but totally guessed at the bored question. Had never heard of the rule.

 

[Victoria Silverwolf]

100% for me.

I'll be annoying and protest the example "Hopefully, it will be warm there." Not because of "there," which is correct, of course. My protest is against the use of the word "hopefully" to mean "It is to be hoped that" or "I hope." I believe that "hopefully" should be used to mean "in a hopeful manner." ("The pilgrims journeyed hopefully.") Obviously, this word would hardly ever be used in this sense.

 

[Boneman]

I got one wrong, shock horror... Apparently:

'Hopefully it'll be hot there' (which I clicked on, which was wrong)

should have been either: 'Hopefully it'll be hot their'

or 'Hopefully it'll be hot they're'

though they don't actually tell you the correct answer.

How stupid am I? Wadja expect when that eejit from Dragon's Den runs Staples...

 

[JunkMonkey]

100% but multiple choice is easy. Irritatingly, they used 'hopefully' as a sentence adverb which is one of those things that annoys me for no logical reason.

EDIT: What Victoria said. And shouldn't there be a comma after 'hopefully'?

 

[JunkMonkey]

on the site I mean.

 

[Phyrebrat]

97% here for me, too - slipped up on boredgate.

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. *

I agree: of/have and then/than send me into a Fibonacci rage ... Altho' I was happy to see under the explanation, the bored example should never be used "in formal writing." So I awarded myself an honorary 100% as I've not written a paper in a few years.

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

"You're terrible, Muriel" *


pH
*showing my age with this pop culture reference

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

97%. I hesitated over "whom" and ended up making the wrong choice. Clearly, I should have thought a little longer. (And still, maybe, have chosen the wrong one, but at least then I wouldn't be annoyed with myself.)

 

[JonH]

While I got 100%, I don't think "bored of" is wrong at all. In silly quizzes like this, you go for the older form. Prepositional use varies between English-speaking groups more than almost anything other than spelling.

As for hopefully, come on, there's a second (more common) meaning these days. Big deal.

 

[Ashleyne]

I can believe that I, actually, got 100%. I shared it on Twitter so that everyone can see what a clever girl I am

 

[Kerrybuchanan]

Tripped up by bored, but reading above, it looks as if I'm in good company! 97% is much better than my average O-level grade, so still feeling fairly pleased with that.