Are You Grammatically Incorrect? (Quiz)

[grady26]

Bad and badly cost me a perfect score.

And I am a English/journalism major.

 

[Spellbound]

Nine out of Ten

 

[operafan]

10/10 - Yea for all the hours spent editing a newsletter.

 

[kevbo]

*cough*

10/10

*cough*

 

[gewhite3]

7 out of 10.......

 

[Críostóir]

Shockingly, I got 10 out of 10.

Pedantic word-nerd here, or didn't you know?

 

[ilikelmao]

10/10; I was an English major, too.

 

[Críostóir]

I scored nine out of 10, with the same one allegedly wrong:That's crap. There is nothing incorrect in saying "is." The sentence is present tense. If the sentence read, "He acted," then "were" would be OK. As it stands, "is" is correct ((al)though I would have written "as though," not "as if.")

The very link providing examples shoots the quiz's reasoning down in flames.

No, they're saying it's a subjunctive. That is, an unreal conditional. But the subjunctive is dying out in English, so you're unfamiliar with it. But it's archaic, not wrong.

Save the subjunctive, would that we could!

(I'd've written "He acts like he's the coolest guy in school," because formal English would almost never be appropriate in the stylistic context where you'd say such a thing in the first place. But if you're saying "as if" or "as though" that's already a bit more formal.)

 

[Aflute04]

I can still be a grammar Nazi with my slightly less than perfect score, can't I?!?!

Otherwise I'd just be a hypocrite and I don't think I could handle that!

 

[vocallychaotic]

10/10 baby! I'm pretty finnicky about correct grammar. I teach high school choir, and I'm pretty tough on my students on any writing they have to do for me, as far as grammar and spelling. I've had multiple students ask me why I'm not an English teacher. lol

Quick aside: At the beginning of my first year at UMiami, a girl that eventually became one of my best friends related to me that she fancied herself a grammar Nazi, which I thought was cool. Of course, we then talked online, and she proceeded to mix up your/you're and their/they're within the first 5 minutes of our conversation. Neither her boyfriend or I will let her live that down.

 

[NightDancer]

I'm requesting a refund on my ESL class

 

[martin6]

10/10 baby! I'm pretty finnicky about correct grammar. I teach high school choir, and I'm pretty tough on my students on any writing they have to do for me, as far as grammar and spelling. I've had multiple students ask me why I'm not an English teacher. lol

Quick aside: At the beginning of my first year at UMiami, a girl that eventually became one of my best friends related to me that she fancied herself a grammar Nazi, which I thought was cool. Of course, we then talked online, and she proceeded to mix up your/you're and their/they're within the first 5 minutes of our conversation. Neither her boyfriend or I will let her live that down.

Of course we UM students would both get perfect scores!!

 

[vocallychaotic]

Of course we UM students would both get perfect scores!!

Haha...this is true. Sadly, that girl I described is a UM alumna.

 

[aadams990]

good grammar is so overrated......

Agreed. Especially when English is brought down to brb, ttyl, lol, lmao, etc. etc.

PS: I thought I was good with the whole grammar thing ... apparently not so much.

 

[Críostóir]

Care for some of my sour grapes?

*boils them down and makes a delicious sour grape pie with a boiled cream topping*

*cuts you a slice*

PIE!!!!!!

 

[josher]

10 out of 10.

They weren't really difficult questions, but people hear incorrect grammar so often, they think it's correct.

 

[2243]

10/10... just got lucky. That ''were'' not ''is'' question is where you gamble.

 

[josher]

^^I sometimes wonder whether or not they teach the subjunctive mood anymore.

 

[VanHiscers]

Nice work!
You got 10/10 correct.

That could be the only advantadge of Chinese language education.

 

[Críostóir]

^^I sometimes wonder whether or not they teach the subjunctive mood anymore.

If they were to teach it, would people learn it?