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#192955 - 11/12/2003 10:03 How's your grammar
wfaulk
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Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
How's your grammar?

I got 9/10. Points to whom can figure which one I missed.
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#192956 - 11/12/2003 10:16 Re: How's your grammar [Re: wfaulk]
peter
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Registered: 13/07/2000
Posts: 4180
Loc: Cambridge, England
10/10. Q9 was the one of which I was least certain.

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#192957 - 11/12/2003 10:17 Re: How's your grammar [Re: wfaulk]
jmwking
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Registered: 27/02/2003
Posts: 777
Loc: Washington, DC metro
I beat Bitt!

Do you diagram sentences in your spare time? You got 10/10 correct.
And, no, I have no idea which one gotcha.

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#192958 - 11/12/2003 10:24 Re: How's your grammar [Re: jmwking]
JBjorgen
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Registered: 19/01/2002
Posts: 3584
Loc: Columbus, OH
10/10 Woo Hoo!

There were several that would be pretty difficult for the average person...which you clearly are not. I have no clue which one you missed.
Since no one else has guessed it, 6?
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#192959 - 11/12/2003 11:00 Re: How's your grammar [Re: wfaulk]
trs24
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Registered: 20/03/2002
Posts: 729
Loc: Palo Alto, CA
9/10. And just to make myself feel better, I'm going to guess that you missed the same one I did: #7? Damn that subjunctive mood!

The Watch Your Language quiz is pretty cool, too. 7/8 on that one.

- trs


Edited by trs24 (11/12/2003 11:12)
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#192960 - 11/12/2003 14:15 Re: How's your grammar [Re: wfaulk]
lectric
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Registered: 20/01/2002
Posts: 2085
Loc: New Orleans, LA
I'm guessing number 7. It got me.

9/10

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#192961 - 11/12/2003 14:18 Re: How's your grammar [Re: wfaulk]
Daria
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Registered: 24/01/2002
Posts: 3937
Loc: Providence, RI
9/10. I looked at 3, thought about it, and then boffed it anyway.

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#192962 - 11/12/2003 14:20 Re: How's your grammar [Re: wfaulk]
Dignan
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Registered: 08/03/2000
Posts: 12338
Loc: Sterling, VA
9/10. My editor mother would be proud.

Damn affected v. effected...
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#192963 - 11/12/2003 14:31 Re: How's your grammar [Re: Daria]
wfaulk
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Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
No one's got it yet.
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#192964 - 11/12/2003 15:24 Re: How's your grammar [Re: wfaulk]
David
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Registered: 05/05/2000
Posts: 623
Loc: Cambridge
9/10 as well. I got tripped up by number 4. I'm sure I got through a couple of the others by a lucky guess though

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#192965 - 11/12/2003 15:27 Re: How's your grammar [Re: David]
wfaulk
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Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
That's the one that got me. I got so busy considering the differences between lay and lie that I totally failed to notice that it was used in the past tense.
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#192966 - 11/12/2003 15:28 Re: How's your grammar [Re: wfaulk]
JBjorgen
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Registered: 19/01/2002
Posts: 3584
Loc: Columbus, OH
Points to whom can figure which one I missed


"Whom" is the subject of "can figure", and as such, should be subjective. Please substitute whoever.
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#192967 - 11/12/2003 15:33 Re: How's your grammar [Re: JBjorgen]
Skunk
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Registered: 26/08/2003
Posts: 525
Loc: California
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#192968 - 11/12/2003 16:20 Re: How's your grammar [Re: JBjorgen]
wfaulk
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Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
Dammit. I knew that sounded wrong, but I got obsessed about the `to'. Turns out the whole phrase is the object of that preposition.
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#192969 - 11/12/2003 16:31 Re: How's your grammar [Re: wfaulk]
genixia
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Registered: 08/02/2002
Posts: 3411
Woohoo, I scored 9. English grammar wasn't ever my strong point.
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#192970 - 11/12/2003 16:36 Re: How's your grammar [Re: wfaulk]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31597
Loc: Seattle, WA
7/10. Still got number 4 wrong despite being warned about it.
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#192971 - 14/12/2003 08:31 Re: How's your grammar [Re: wfaulk]
bonzi
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Registered: 13/09/1999
Posts: 2401
Loc: Croatia
9/10. Not bad for a foreigner . I goofed #4.

Some problems (like #7, subjunctive) might actually be easier for a non-native speaker. My high-school English teacher paid special attention to grammar. And I even didn't have A (we call it '5').

P.S. I am mostly in lurking mode recently because my [censored] home machine refuses to post on this BBS (I am at a friend's machine now). It is so frustrating that I am considering reinstalling this poor excuse for an operating system. I have to keep WinXP because I have do some work there, but dual boot is definitevely an appealing option...
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