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Are you grammatically correct?
2003-12-11, 2:22 AM #1
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/Features/Quiz/QuizResults.aspx?QuizID=51

I got 9/10. Irregardless of that, I still have decent grammar [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]

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2003-12-11, 2:31 AM #2
6/10

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2003-12-11, 2:44 AM #3
7/10. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/frown.gif]

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2003-12-11, 2:47 AM #4
10/10. Wonder me, a'int not.
2003-12-11, 2:53 AM #5
10/10

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2003-12-11, 3:07 AM #6
7/10. Not bad, I guess...

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2003-12-11, 3:11 AM #7
10/10 and it's not even my first language [http://forums.massassi.net/html/tongue.gif]

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2003-12-11, 3:27 AM #8
9/10 ...I can't believe I missed the one I did. Why in the world did I put badly? I knew it was incorrect!

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2003-12-11, 3:28 AM #9
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Ten out of ten! Ten out of ten!

The one about going to sleep was tricky, though.
2003-12-11, 3:39 AM #10
10/10 wooooooo

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2003-12-11, 3:52 AM #11
10/10, palooka!
2003-12-11, 4:26 AM #12
8/10

What I figured I'd get too.

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2003-12-11, 4:51 AM #13
I would've got 10/10, but I assumed that i'd been getting everything wrong all my life... [http://forums.massassi.net/html/tongue.gif]
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2003-12-11, 4:59 AM #14
i got 9/10
that stupid lay/laid thing always confuses me [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]

but what annoys me the most is when people say "I could of" that's SO wrong it's "I could HAVE" (=

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2003-12-11, 5:19 AM #15
I'm sorry, but anyone that says "He acts as if he is the coolest guy in school" is incorrect is stupid.

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2003-12-11, 5:31 AM #16
10/10. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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2003-12-11, 5:49 AM #17
9/10

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2003-12-11, 6:24 AM #18
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I'm sorry, but anyone that says "He acts as if he is the coolest guy in school" is incorrect is stupid.
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I'm sorry, but you're just a tool of the indicativarchy, and by denying it exists you're merely furthering the oppression of subjunctives. Subjunctives deserve equal rights to any indicative, and just because they may be "misunderstood" does not give you the right to discriminate against them.
2003-12-11, 6:52 AM #19
The funny thing is, my sentence, which is supposedly incorrect, makes about 102,352X more sense than yours. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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2003-12-11, 7:00 AM #20
9/10

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2003-12-11, 7:00 AM #21
5

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2003-12-11, 9:30 AM #22
8/10

Incorrect ones:

4
The correct answer: C lay
Your answer: B lied

7
The correct answer: C were
Your answer: A is

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2003-12-11, 9:40 AM #23
8/10
Bad vs badly
As if he were vs as if he was

Meh, this is what i get for learning other languages, i get their rules mixed up sometimes.

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2003-12-11, 9:42 AM #24
9/10

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2003-12-11, 9:49 AM #25
4/10. I thought WAY too much into them, my instinct was correct in almost every case. The only one I believe I would have missed was the one about subjunctive mood. I hated that english class, and never really learned that [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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2003-12-11, 9:55 AM #26
7/10

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2003-12-11, 10:54 AM #27
7/10

Never knew the past tense of lie is lay.

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2003-12-11, 11:19 AM #28
9/10 Missed the is/were question

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2003-12-11, 11:25 AM #29
7/10 I should've had the bad/badly one correct and the regardless one. Wasnt thinking.

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2003-12-11, 11:40 AM #30
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9/10 Missed the is/were question

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That subjunctive is tricky.

10/10 of course.

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2003-12-11, 11:59 AM #31
7/10

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2003-12-11, 12:33 PM #32
7/10

Has anyone ever wondered why things like double negatives, ebonics, etc. are still considered to be "wrong" even though they have become commonplace? We still understand the meaning of so-called bad grammar, so why is it considered wrong? If you used proper english today, you would sound like a snob.

Furthermore, who decides what is correct and incorrect, and why the hell should we care what they say?

The language should be updated based on how people speak in day to day life. The world is evolving, and our language should also evolve to reflect the times.


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2003-12-11, 12:51 PM #33
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Pagewizard_YKS:
7/10

Has anyone ever wondered why things like double negatives, ebonics, etc. are still considered to be "wrong" even though they have become commonplace? We still understand the meaning of so-called bad grammar, so why is it considered wrong? If you used proper english today, you would sound like a snob.

Furthermore, who decides what is correct and incorrect, and why the hell should we care what they say?

The language should be updated based on how people speak in day to day life. The world is evolving, and our language should also evolve to reflect the times.

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I use proper grammer and it doesn't make me sound like a snob it makes me sound intelligent.

Anmd Krokodile: Unless English isnt your first language or you took this test very late at night what the heck were you thinking ? Lied ??? jeez....
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2003-12-11, 12:54 PM #34
You got 4/10 correct.

EVIL quiz... Even though I usually have good grammar, their blasted questions dont have relevence to the way actual people speak/write.

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2003-12-11, 1:02 PM #35
People don't generally speak correctly these days. The old grammar rules are still the old grammar rules. They don't evolve as quickly as the language

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2003-12-11, 2:05 PM #36
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Cool Matty:
4/10. I thought WAY too much into them, my instinct was correct in almost every case. The only one I believe I would have missed was the one about subjunctive mood. I hated that english class, and never really learned that [http://forums.massassi.net/html/biggrin.gif]

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Same here, I thought the 'bad' one was a trick. (6/10)
2003-12-11, 2:46 PM #37
10/10

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2003-12-11, 2:48 PM #38
I think normal speach would sound much better in the United States if people would remove the word "myself" from their vocabularies. I'm always hearing it used incorrectly, as in, "Joe called myself and we discussed our weekend plans." If they are trying to sound more intelligent by using "myself" instead of "me," it isn't working. If they can't use it correctly then they shouldn't use it at all. [/RANT]

Yeah, yeah, I probably have lots of picky little things wrong with that paragraph , but it sounds good to me. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/wink.gif]

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2003-12-11, 2:51 PM #39
10/10, of course. [http://forums.massassi.net/html/smile.gif]

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2003-12-11, 2:51 PM #40
4/10 -_-

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