Anyone game for a grammar test?

[lynnmosher]

The daily email newsletter, Daily Writing Tips, listed a fun grammar test today. Take it and see how you do. Here's the link...

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/grammar-test-1/

[Tamera]

I'm bummed. I thought I was really good at grammer, but I got a 75%.

[righter1]

I got 75%. Not bad... Could definitely do better.

[Timber Wolf]

same here.

[Tarin]

Guess I didn't do as bad as I thought. I got 90%. :)

[Laina]

I only got 65%. :(

Guess I better brush up on my grammar skills.

I guess we need to vote Tarin in as the offical CW editor. :D

[Xenia]

I'm in big trouble!

[righter1]

I guess we need to vote Tarin in as the offical CW editor. :D

She's always done a terriffic job on my workshop postings! :cool: !thumbsup! :D

[Zanzibar]

I hate grammer and pretty much just write so the words flow smoothly - but I got a 90 on the test too. My mother is always telling me I'm not supposed to start sentences with 'But' or 'And'. But :) I do it anyway. And all the time. :D

[michaelsnyder]

I'm not going there...could wreck my self-esteem. Only recently did I learn to spell grammar!

(For the record, I have nothing against grammar...I just know what I don't know, if you know what I mean.)

Mike

[Tarin]

I guess we need to vote Tarin in as the offical CW editor. :D

LOL You'd better wait until someone scores 100 before you start passing out "official" badges. :p

[lynnmosher]

I only got 75% also. I vote for Tarin, too!!!

[tlm]

I missed all the names--clauses and such. It has been a long, long time since I studied all that!

[Lookin^Up]

I got 85%. Some of that I never heard of before, such as two types of adjectives. Why is that necessary to know? (Back, back, you rebel!)

[Katharine]

Hey, I done got a 60 per cent! I reckon I knows how to talk, but I sure cain't recall them fancy terminologies fer all that stuff. I'm downright disappointed in this here score, seeing as how I've brung two kids all the way through their public-school years, and the third one's pert near done, too.

On t'other hand, my gramparents on both sides was cousins. Ya know, that one fact gets me through a lotta things. Jest ask my husband!

It's too bad I didn't refrain from attempting that darned test like our wise friend Mike Snyder. Lookin^Up, I'd have to agree with you about the necessity of all this.

I need chocolate.

[srussell]

I only got 70% on the grammar test :mad:. However, I got 100% on the vocabulary test! :)

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/vocabulary-test-1/

Sam

[kshsj777]

I got:

70% on the grammar test

95% on the vocabulary test

and

90% on the spelling test.

[srussell]

Just for kicks, I took the spelling test and got 90%. I messed up persistant and calender, I mean, persistent and calendar.

[Zanzibar]

Ha! Now the spelling test is one I will stay away from! Most days my Word program heats up and kicks into overdrive due to all the red squiggley lines that show up on the screen.

I love my auto-correct features.

[Tarin]

Some of that I never heard of before, such as two types of adjectives.

Yeah, I think that's the one I missed too. :confused:

[lynnmosher]

I'd never heard of that either. I missed it as well.

[cgee]

80% didn't remember the correct terms, but used the correct words. Guess I'll keep on writin'!

[Mouse5]

I knew I was bad at grammar, but I didn't realize I was that bad. Ugh!! I need to pull out the school books again. 50%

Though I did much better on the vocabulary I'm still very thankful for a good dictionary/thesaurus. :) 70%

Spelling.... 80%

Sigh... I'm going to have to seriously work on this. These scores aren't that great. No wonder my editing isn't that good. :(

[Timber Wolf]

95% on the vocabulary test

[Merry]

85% here...hmmm...I'll have to go try the spelling test.

Spelling 90%

Vocab 100%

Thank goodness they didn't have a comma test!

[paulchernoch]

Ouch! 70% on the grammar test. And I got a 710 on the verbal SAT when I was a kid! Where have all my brain cells gone?

100% on vocabulary. I'm a good guesser.

90% on spelling, which is "all right".

- Paul

[Lookin^Up]

I've mentioned I got 85% on my grammar test. (Still looking for the grampar test. :p) I went back for the vocabulary test (100%) and the spelling test (another 85%).

I'm still not convinced it was entirely fair (at least on the ones I got 85 on. LOL) !thumbsup!

[righter1]

I went back and took the vocabulary & spelling tests... I got an 80% on vocabulary, and a 95% on spelling... not too bad!!!

[Lookin^Up]

Good for you, Liberty. I knew you would do well. !thumbsup!

[Scotsman]

WOW!

Am I glad I took this test.

I scored 60% and that means I only got 40% wrong. This proves that I'm right most of the time. I intend to use this to prove to my wife that she's wrong.

She claims that I'm hardly ever right. (And she's usually right about that.) :)

P.S. What, may I ask, is/are homophones?

[Tarin]

P.S. What, may I ask, is/are homophones?

A homophone is a word that is pronounced in the same way as one or more other words but is different in meaning and sometimes spelling, such as "hair" and "hare." ;)

[Lookin^Up]

And I thought it was what gays use to call their friends. LOL

[tlm]

P.S. What, may I ask, is/are homophones?

When I was a kid, textbooks called them homonyms. By the time I had become a teacher, the books referred to them as homophones.

[Tarin]

A homonym is a word that is pronounced and spelled the same way. :)

[tlm]

Aha, I thought they were the same. It's a good thing that I teach science!

[Tarin]

Actually, I just learned the difference the other day - thanks to the Red Pen Editor (http://www.theredpeneditor.com/)'s weekly e-mail tip. ;)

[lynnmosher]

I get that, too. I love it. It's a great source.

[Michael Scott]

...yeah...well... content matters more than correct grammar! So there!

(*sulking*)

[lynnmosher]

Unfortunately, and I say this in all tenderness, I am not sure that a publisher would accept a manuscript containing great content but poor grammar. I can see an editor's markings of red all over the manuscript. As a reader, I am one of the many who, even if the content is outstanding but the grammar isn't, will never find out how good the content is because I will have tossed it out. So I guess my position just proves the publisher's position.

[Michael Scott]

I'm still sulking.:mad:;)

I got a 65%. I overthought the questions.

[lynnmosher]

LOL! That happens to me, too!

[Scotsman]

I'm still sulking.:mad:;)

I got a 65%. I overthought the questions.

Now that you mention it, my wife got a 65 too. That's better than my 60%, and she isn't even a writer. :confused: