[GRAMMAR] Grammatically Speaking (test)

97%, didn't know the difference between apostrophe usage for one year versus two years.

 

97%, urgh. Got mixed up with "lay" vs "lie."

 

91%.

Good enough. I spent 5+ years in East Texas, so I think my curved score should be 95%.

 

Me am not taking this test. Everybody noes that grammar are overrated. Anybody whom thinks that their some sort of genius by scoring high is fooling hisself.

 

97%. Only missed on "whose" vs "who's".

 

100%.

Very impressive considering I am an American AND an engineer/scientist.

 

I took this test based on what I'd actually write, instead of what I know of grammar. And got an 81. I think there's definitely a difference between what we know to be correct on a grammar test here or on some standardized test. And how we actually write in life. For example, I use i.e. in cases where I'm suppose to use e.g. I almost never use "whom" or "could of".

 

Lie Lady Lie...doesn't have the same ring to it.

 

100 percent. I done good.

 

neither did i but i got lucky and guessed correctly

 

I think I got the thing with "bored of" and "bored with" wrong, but didn't really understand the explanation given. Thought both were ok.

 

81%

Me can speak english good.

 

I agree. The variations might have a slight nuance of difference in meaning, but both seem correct to me.

Which speaks to the larger problem of having a grammar quiz in the first place. Grammar is series of conventions, which evolve over time. It's not the Torah. There isn't a right answer, only a generally accepted one. I think learning the convention is important -- you have to learn the rules before it is meaningful to break them -- but quizzes like this fetishize conformity and squash the dynamism of the language.