Grammar quiz

[Hibbyradge]

100% :smug:

http://m.staples.ca/sbdca/en_CA/cre/programs/grammarquiz/

[Phil D. Rolls]

100% :smug:

http://m.staples.ca/sbdca/en_CA/cre/programs/grammarquiz/

Weather and whether do not sound the same where I come from. Got nowhere near 100% :boo hoo:
Can never get affect and effect right. Sound's like ill jus't have to go bak to school. Should of tried harder befowa.

[Gatecrasher]

88% :blushie:

[Jay]

88% embarrassed!


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[Beefster]

88%.

[Pretty Boy]

91%.

[hibsbollah]

97%

I thought I knew 'whom' as well :boo hoo:

[Dan Sarf]

97%

I thought I knew 'whom' as well :boo hoo:

Same here.

"Whom" is used when referring to the object of a sentence. Use "who" when referring to the subject of a sentence.

Whom would have known it?

[hibsbollah]

Same here.

"Whom" is used when referring to the object of a sentence. Use "who" when referring to the subject of a sentence.

Whom would have known it?

I always thought it was only used when the subject had an interaction with the object, e.g; 'the yam whom I asked to stop stealing the poppies'.

Wrong again :greengrin

[PeeJay]

... 100% ... living in Berlin hasn't ruined my English yet, then ...- :greengrin

[Hibs Class]

100% but couldn't have explained all of the rules.

[Hibbyradge]

I found it incredible that 24% of people got the "They could have/of arrived earlier" question wrong.

[Hibs Class]

I found it incredible that 24% of people got the "They could have/of arrived earlier" question wrong.

Don't know why you're surprised - it was you who invited .netters to take the test!

[Judas Iscariot]

100%

I fought it was reall'y easy

[Lucius Apuleius]

Also 100% but all that one would expect. :greengrin

[Jonnyboy]

100% and wouldn't have accpected any less :greengrin

[stu in nottingham]

Won hundred.

[HibeeEmma]

91%

So annoyed since I thought I was quite grammar savvy

[Hibbyradge]

Don't know why you're surprised - it was you who invited .netters to take the test!

:tsk tsk:

:hilarious

[Dan Sarf]

91%

So annoyed since I thought I was quite grammar savvy

Should have asked grandad savvy to help instead.







Groan (to save you the bother, Emma).

[barcahibs]

100% - but for a lot of them, although I knew I was right, I couldn't have said why.

As far as I can remember my year at school was discouraged from learning any grammar rules - I can remember getting a row from my primary school teacher for (correctly!) using apostrophes to indicate possession when writing something on the blackboard (because my dad had explained it to me). According to her apostrophes were old fashioned and "not needed anymore".

This lasted right through my school years - I also remember a group of us being given a crash course on the proper use of a comma the day before our standard grade English exams - we had never been taught it before.

To this day I have no real idea on the proper rules of sentence structure - I haven't got a clue what a participle is and only really a vague idea of stuff like nouns and verbs. I know the famous star trek quote "to boldly go, where no man has gone before" is wrong for some reason, but I haven't got a scooby why. I couldn't use a semi colon properly if my life depended on it; which, thankfully, it hasn't so far.

I do remember being told to always try and avoid using the words "of" and "lots" in any sentence unless you have no other choice - but again I don't know why.

Sorry to moan, but it's always really frustrated me - It's very hard to break lessons you learnt when you were six! :greengrin

[Speedy]

100% - but for a lot of them, although I knew I was right, I couldn't have said why.

As far as I can remember my year at school was discouraged from learning any grammar rules - I can remember getting a row from my primary school teacher for (correctly!) using apostrophes to indicate possession when writing something on the blackboard (because my dad had explained it to me). According to her apostrophes were old fashioned and "not needed anymore".

This lasted right through my school years - I also remember a group of us being given a crash course on the proper use of a comma the day before our standard grade English exams - we had never been taught it before.

To this day I have no real idea on the proper rules of sentence structure - I haven't got a clue what a participle is and only really a vague idea of stuff like nouns and verbs. I know the famous star trek quote "to boldly go, where no man has gone before" is wrong for some reason, but I haven't got a scooby why. I couldn't use a semi colon properly if my life depended on it; which, thankfully, it hasn't so far.

I do remember being told to always try and avoid using the words "of" and "lots" in any sentence unless you have no other choice - but again I don't know why.

Sorry to moan, but it's always really frustrated me - It's very hard to break lessons you learnt when you were six! :greengrin

It's fairly clear you were involved in a social experiment :greengrin

[Sir David Gray]

91%.

I was doing really well until the e.g./i.e. one.

[Allant1981]

100%, well chuffed

[Dan Sarf]

100%, well chuffed

OK, so what's the difference between "that" and "which" then? If you're so clever... :greengrin

[s.a.m]

OK, so what's the difference between "that" and "which" then? If you're so clever... :greengrin

That's the one I got wrong. I can't remember ever being taught when to use either of those, and I was surprised when I saw the explanation.

[IndieHibby]

94%. Me and I got me, to me eternal shame...

[Lucius Apuleius]

91%

So annoyed since I thought I was quite grammar savvy

No wahala!

[The_Exile]

97%, gutted I never got the full monty, mind you this is stuff you start learning in primary 3 :greengrin

[BroxburnHibee]

97%

Whom :grr:

[Aldo]

*rattles out pram*

England wasn't my gratest subject at school

;-D

[Dan Sarf]

97%

Whom :grr:

Meem too. :boo hoo:

[heretoday]

100% but I was taught grammar in the sixties and it was dinned into us until we got it right.

[easty]

Easy. 100%.

[Hiber-nation]

91% and that's good enough :greengrin

[heretoday]

91% and that's good enough :greengrin


91%? 91%? Good enough?

Nonsense boy. Go back and do it again!

[Hibrandenburg]

91%.

I was doing really well until the e.g./i.e. one.

100% Picked up a wee bit of Latin which helped with that particular problem.

My German Mrs only got the weather/whether bit wrong and that probably had more to do with her being hard of hearing than grammatical incompetence.

All in all not too shabby for a school dropout like myself.

[--------]

100%, though I would be tempted to question whether so many questions relating to the diverse meanings of homophones properly belong in a test entitled "Grammatically Speaking".

:rules:

And the link "revisit incorrect answers" should begin with an uppercase "R". I'm surprised no one else noticed that.

[Hibbyradge]

100%, though I would be tempted to question whether so many questions relating to the diverse meanings of homophones properly belong in a test entitled "Grammatically Speaking".

:rules:

And the link "revisit incorrect answers" should begin with an uppercase "R". I'm surprised no one else noticed that.

How did you see that link if you got 100% correct?

[Hibrandenburg]

How did you see that link if you got 100% correct?

:laugh:

[--------]

How did you see that link if you got 100% correct?


It's on the page that comes up when you finish. :greengrin

(Note my correct usage of the word "that" in that reply.)

[lapsedhibee]

It's on the page that comes up when you finish. :greengrin

(Note my correct usage of the word "that" in that reply.)

I was disappointed that the option "what" was not included in the question to which you refer. It was almost as if the compilers had never seen a Morecambe and Wise show.

[Hibs Class]

100%, though I would be tempted to question whether so many questions relating to the diverse meanings of homophones properly belong in a test entitled "Grammatically Speaking".

:rules:

And the link "revisit incorrect answers" should begin with an uppercase "R". I'm surprised no one else noticed that.

Starting a sentence with "And"! Provocative but not entirely unacceptable, contrary to popular opinion. Well played!

[Hibrandenburg]

Starting a sentence with "And"! Provocative but not entirely unacceptable, contrary to popular opinion. Well played!

Add to that his rebellious use of punctuation outside the inverted commas and I'd say "He's a bit of a grammatical tearaway."

:wink:

[PercyHibs]

75% 😏