Are you grammatically correct?

[Kim]

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/depart...id=51&GT1=6065

This test basically pinpoints all the common mistakes in the english language. I was flipping over one of them because I swore I knew the answer, but totally blew over my head the instant I looked over the question.

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Not bad
But you may want to think twice about pursuing a career as a copy editor. You got 7/10 correct.


TK 4 10/10

[za gophar]

forget TK, even i got 10 out of 10. that was easy as hell.. oh and i own the subjunctive, bitches. the lay laid lied one is tricky too but i know it.

[SpiderMage]

Not bad
But you may want to think twice about pursuing a career as a copy editor. You got 7/10 correct.

[RATTY...]

Do you diagram sentences in your spare time? You got 9/10 correct

Got tricked by lay-laid. English is my third language anyways :P

[arwen_7]

question 7 is tricky --
"He acts as if he is/was/were the coolest guy in school'

all three could work in different stiuations could they not?

i got 9/10

[Volcs]

Do you diagram sentences in your spare time? You got 9/10 correct.

"The professor gave the most difficult problems to Andrea and me."?!?! GTFO!

[NaiLed]

yeah, wtf, surely "I" is acceptable as well. at least, we got taught that at school

[Ewan]

9/10

Uhh, I was always taught at school to use "Steve and I" instead of "Steve and me" or "me and Steve".

[Volcs]

9/10

Uhh, I was always taught at school to use "Steve and I" instead of "Steve and me" or "me and Steve".

We are. It's common knowledge.
For those of you that got 10/10, you're liars. Everyone has been taught to use I, so if you got that right it means you're uneducated.
The only person I believe that got 10/10 and actually knew that "I" is incorrect is TK, but he probably had a grammar book at his side (it seems like something he would have.)

question 7 is tricky --
"He acts as if he is/was/were the coolest guy in school'

all three could work in different stiuations could they not?

i got 9/10

"acts" - present tense

[Ewan]

is is present tense too.

It's were because he acts as if he were something he isn't.

[Dameon Angell]

Ask Lunar, she'd break the website with her proper english.

[Nockm]

I got 6/10

[za gophar]

We are. It's common knowledge.
For those of you that got 10/10, you're liars. Everyone has been taught to use I, so if you got that right it means you're uneducated.
The only person I believe that got 10/10 and actually knew that "I" is incorrect is TK, but he probably had a grammar book at his side (it seems like something he would have.)


"acts" - present tense

the trick is to take away the other person's name and see how it sounds.

"The professor gave the most difficult problems to Andrea and me."

"The professor gave the most difficult problems to Andrea and I."

see now? it would be wrong to say "the professor gave the most difficult problems to I."

that is how i was taught.

[za gophar]

question 7 is tricky --
"He acts as if he is/was/were the coolest guy in school'

all three could work in different stiuations could they not?

i got 9/10

no, the "as if" part automatically turns the verb into imperfect subjunctive. i learned this through taking spanish. it's like .. "El camina como si fuera el chico mas popular del colegio." for those who know a little spanish, fuera is the imperfect subjunctive of the verb ser, to be, and it results from the "como si," as if.

i wonder if it works for any tense of "to act." would it be "he will act as if he were the coolest guy in school?" i think it is but it sounds weird.

[Displaced]

Do you diagram sentences in your spare time? You got 8/10 correct.

thought id do better actually..