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Post by cowgirl on Feb 22, 2015 23:58:52 GMT
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Post by moo on Feb 23, 2015 6:38:18 GMT
Oops awful..... 4!! Mind you in my defence I should have spent more time reading the answers.... I thought the " were in the same place on 2!!... & got distracted taking the dog out on the last 2... feel very ashamed!! 
Good one Cowgirl....
Xx moo xx
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Post by corkwing on Feb 23, 2015 8:17:42 GMT
I got 7. I'm glad I'm not a grammar Nazi, although there was one question where there is FIERCE debate over which answer is correct.
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Post by flutterby on Feb 23, 2015 8:22:31 GMT
As Henry Higgins put it "Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?"  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2015 8:46:43 GMT
7 for me. Harder than I thought. The one I see used wrongly all the time is advice and advise, people always seem to use the wrong one and it really bugs me.  |
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Post by poohbear on Feb 23, 2015 11:06:33 GMT
I only got 5!
This, in addition to having to ask Goggle what an adverb was this morning, makes me ever so slightly ashamed!
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Post by corkwing on Feb 23, 2015 11:45:55 GMT
I admit to getting wound up by people writing "comprised of". It was interesting to read, recently, of someone who dedicates loads of time to trying to eradicate it from Wikipedia. And I hate apostrophe's in plural's. Often seen on market stall's, where they sell lot's of potato's.
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Post by cowgirl on Feb 23, 2015 12:18:26 GMT
I hate "very rare" surely it is rare or it is not. No idea if it's correct but I don't like it.
One of my many pet hates is using the wrong tense. "He brung it over" shudder. In Adrian Mole his step sister uses bad English to irrate her father as bad behaviour didn't work. Made me chuckle
Pooh bear - I have to check my sons homework when he isn't there so I can use a calculator, check the Internet & dictionary;)
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Post by cowgirl on Feb 23, 2015 12:21:32 GMT
Did I use the right there ....  |
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Post by gilreth on Feb 23, 2015 15:11:41 GMT
Hmmm ok managed 9 here - but I do spend a lot of time correcting grammar & English in PhD theses and research papers.... Lack of articles is what gets my boat - but that is probably because that is what I end up correcting a lot as a lot of our students native languages do not have equivalents to 'a' or 'the'. Oh and complex sentences that take up a lot of lines. Grammar checkers hate technical writing as cannot write in first person so end up writing some convoluted material
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Post by giggles on Feb 23, 2015 19:27:00 GMT
9 for me too.
Incorrect use of the apostrophe is what annoys me
As in its and it's - there and they're etc.
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Post by lemonade on Feb 23, 2015 23:20:39 GMT
Just a 6  interesting though |
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Post by mudlark on Feb 24, 2015 11:20:36 GMT
oh dear 6. But I was taught to read in the decades too long ago to mention a weird form of literacy called ITC I blame that!
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Post by mooster on Feb 24, 2015 12:04:45 GMT
Ah - 6 for me too - but I did try it on my phone so couldn't see all the apostrophes!! Did better on the laptop!
Has anyone dared to try the "How posh are you?" in the related articles below this quiz?
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Post by corkwing on Feb 24, 2015 14:41:02 GMT
Mooster - I'm "common as muck" apparently.
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Post by cowgirl on Feb 24, 2015 16:28:20 GMT
I am middle class. !
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Post by sooz on Feb 24, 2015 22:08:00 GMT
7 here....
Mudlark...do you mean ITA? I was taught that too, many moons ago in sunny Barrow! Check out ITA on Wikipedia lol
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Post by sooz on Feb 24, 2015 22:14:03 GMT
......oh and common as muck!
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Post by mudlark on Feb 24, 2015 22:42:25 GMT
yes sooz it was ITA....what a mad idea that was..!
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Post by stardog on Feb 25, 2015 2:56:22 GMT
8 for me. yay. and says I am middle class!!! LOL
I really must go to bed and stop all this me time. I will have to get up in 3 hours.
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Post by lemonade on Feb 26, 2015 17:10:56 GMT
Middle class for me! Weird test though lol
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Post by chotimonkey on Feb 26, 2015 21:11:19 GMT
8 for me... Always was v poor at grammar and spelling considering my profession (English teacher)
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interesting though 
