How good is your grammar

[Tezcatlipoca]

You are a MASTER of the English language!

While your English is not exactly perfect, you are still more grammatically correct than just about every American. Still, there is always room for improvement...

[kronas]

Originally Posted by Nikko

Colloquially, it was referring to your perceived comprehension and reaction to the evidently Colonial viewpoint iterated within the remit of the scource website.

Clearly this commences from a tanget viewpoint with regard to correct English. Consequently, in your circumstance, I would remain unconcerned.

yep, your correct...........

i dont take these sites seriously, because they build up random sporadic means to 'bring you down'...........

[Nikko]

Originally Posted by kronas

yep, your correct...........

My correct what? Or did you mean "you're" ?

Originally Posted by kronas

i dont take these sites seriously, because they build up random sporadic means to 'bring you down'...........

By virtue of random - does that mean selected on a purely chance basis from a known base? Is sporadic a further complication of the odds, or is that a one off on this occasion?

[kronas]

Originally Posted by Nikko

My correct what? Or did you mean "you're" ?

you knew what me meant

Originally Posted by Nikko

By virtue of random - does that mean selected on a purely chance basis from a known base?

it's done by this i think...........its slightly random to make it look difficult, certain words/sentences/comma's etc are already predetermened to look difficult, and confuse the subject.

[Nikko]

Originally Posted by kronas

you knew what me meant

Yeah

Originally Posted by kronas

it's done by this i think...........its slightly random to make it look difficult, certain words/sentences/comma's etc are already predetermened to look difficult, and confuse the subject.

Umm - its slightly intended to offer alternatives to the correct choice by virtue of some extraneous options that may be selected by the lazy, unknowing, stupid, misguided or ignorant.

Its a bit like 'O' levels became in the 80's - if you don't know, have a guess - you still get some sort of grade - hey carry on and get a degree.

What on earth is the point of this test when it doesn't *tell* you the *right* answers??

I even tried it in IE to see if it was something to do with Netscape but it didn't make any difference except that I got a message asking me if I wanted to run "Clock Sync" on my computer!

Does "Grammar God" mean you got 100%? Or is it e.g. 80% to 100%? What level of wrong answers gives you Ba$$$$d?

And some of the questions are questionable in themselves.

For example the difference between "go boldly" and "boldly go" is only of interest to those who think that English should be like Classical Latin where you don't split infinitives, but English is *not* Classical Latin, despite the attempts of some people to force it into that mould, so it's pointless.

[Jerrek]

You are a GRAMMAR GOD!

If your mission in life is not already to preserve the English tongue, it should be. Congratulations and thank you!



Splitting infinitives used to be a bad thing, but these days it is acceptable English to me. (And the Associated Press and Canadian Press)

I picked "boldly go." What can I say? I like Star Trek.

[Bex]

Originally Posted by Graham

For example the difference between "go boldly" and "boldly go" is only of interest to those who think that English should be like Classical Latin where you don't split infinitives, but English is *not* Classical Latin, despite the attempts of some people to force it into that mould, so it's pointless.

*groan* my philosophy a-level teacher used to have a thing about split infinitives... it became a joke between us.....he would correct my split infinitives in every essay......and when he had an essay he had given to us to mark (to see it's philosophical merit) i used to correct his...it became a bit of a joke between us.

but i agree with graham some of the questions were dubious...

a while ago i was helping my cousin (who was 10 at the time) with her english home work and she was doing similar to the questions in the quiz, but had the missing words at the top of the page; i was discusted to see that one of the sentences actually made no sense. The teacher was, supposed, to be teaching the kids good grammar and sentence building when she herself had made a sentence which made no sense :pp

[Dave Stones]

Originally Posted by Nikko

Surely that should read "I'm"

And you should have had a question mark at the end of your sentence, shouldn't you? .

Don't even bother starting on the rights and wrongs of starting a sentence with the word "and" either.

:pp

[Alanmelon]

Originally Posted by Dave Stones

And you should have had a question mark at the end of your sentence, shouldn't you? .

Don't even bother starting on the rights and wrongs of starting a sentence with the word "and" either.

:pp

It wasn't a question though, well, not strictly, could be a statement.

EDIT - Grammar GOD here too, despite some dubious answers

[Alan Waddington]

You are a GRAMMAR GOD!

If your mission in life is not already to preserve the English tongue, it should be. Congratulations and thank you!

That's a relief. There were one or two questions that gave me pause for thought

[Nikko]

Originally Posted by Dave Stones

And you should have had a question mark at the end of your sentence, shouldn't you? .

Don't even bother starting on the rights and wrongs of starting a sentence with the word "and" either.

:pp

Why? I was not asking anything!

OK

Originally Posted by Alanmelon

It wasn't a question though, well, not strictly, could be a statement.

Absolutely!

[Lew]

You are a GRAMMAR GOD!

If your mission in life is not already to preserve the English tongue, it should be. Congratulations and thank you!

[Halcyon]

Grammar God !!!

Yey !

[Theodoric]

It would seem that I am a 'Grammar God'.