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Here is the exam you must pass to be a member of the Grammar Police
05-17-2016, 01:48 PM
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Here is the exam you must pass to be a member of the Grammar Police
See if you have what it takes to join the force!
The Grammar Test
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05-17-2016, 01:54 PM
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A+
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05-17-2016, 01:56 PM
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A+ 
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05-17-2016, 01:57 PM
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15 out of 15. Too easy. Couldn't believe it.
You've got more?
By the way, I am not a native English speaker.
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05-17-2016, 01:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Big_Hitter
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Me, too. Bring 'em on. 
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05-17-2016, 02:00 PM
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Test is rigged, gave me an A+ too. I stink at grammar.
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05-17-2016, 02:01 PM
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A+, though I had to stop and think on a few of them...
They left out one of my favorites - a 'mute point.'
That said, recently someone here corrected me on the difference between i.e. and e.g. - I had been using the former where I meant the latter for years. 
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05-17-2016, 02:01 PM
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Hey, where's the question to test the distinction between it's and its?
Many posters here would fail that one. Been driving me nuts to see that mistake.
Hint: watch out where you use the one in red.
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"Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man" -- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
"Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities" - Voltaire (1694-1778)
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05-17-2016, 02:02 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by NW-Bound
Hey, where's the question to test the distinction between it's and its?
Many posters here would fail that one. Been driving me nuts to see that mistake.
Hint: watch out where you use the one in red.
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Couldn't you at least wait until the swearing in ceremony to start walking the beat?
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05-17-2016, 02:07 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by NW-Bound
Hey, where's the question to test the distinction between it's and its?
Many posters here would fail that one. Been driving me nuts to see that mistake.
Hint: watch out where you use the one in red.
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Its not in it's proper place, is it?
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05-17-2016, 02:08 PM
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Wait? I have made at least two posts on the use of it's where one should write its. Did not do any good! 
I know. From now on, in my posting, I shall always highlight the word its using the green color. Perhaps dyslexic people are not also color blind.
Call me the its police.
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"Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities" - Voltaire (1694-1778)
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05-17-2016, 02:08 PM
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Stooped teast, I ain't know genius.
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05-17-2016, 02:13 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by NW-Bound
Hey, where's the question to test the distinction between it's and its?
Many posters here would fail that one. Been driving me nuts to see that mistake..
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" Loosing weight" does it for me.
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05-17-2016, 02:18 PM
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I can't believe that only 1% can ace this test. I'm far from Grammer police material and easily aced it.
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05-17-2016, 02:20 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by devans0
I'm far from Grammer police material...
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Good one...
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05-17-2016, 02:23 PM
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A+ here, too. So apparently a perfect score puts you in the top 1%, which is a bit surprising considering how easy the questions were. The only one I wasn't completely sure about was emigrant vs. immigrant.
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05-17-2016, 02:23 PM
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I also got them alright. I could of done more but their were no more questions. Irregardless, it was fun. I rarely loose contests like this won. I can not resist participating in these tests.
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05-17-2016, 02:26 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nemo2
"Loosing weight" does it for me.
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I drove a mentor of mine nutty with misuse of the loose word. It was a comment in assembly code, ment to be helpful to anyone who came into the program. The guy cornered me to ask if I knew the right word, sure I did. I made some remark about in a helpful comment spelling doesn't count. You had to spell all the instructions and variables consistantly for the machine, people can adapt.
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05-17-2016, 02:28 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mystang52
I also got them alright. I could of done more but their were no more questions. Irregardless, it was fun. I rarely loose contests like this won. I can not resist participating in these tests.
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What he sayed!
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05-17-2016, 02:30 PM
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I'm a genius two. Don't make no cents neither. I'm an engineer and everyone no's we all suck at British.
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