Number 10 had two correct answers. You probably chose their mistake. :)
Chrispy
I got 98% and I'm pretty sure the only one I missed must have been the dangling modifier question. I think I remember dangling them a lot in school - that and getting into trouble for run on sentences.
I got 100%. If it weren't for the second part of the question about monkeys, I would have gotten it wrong. I didn't know the plural of monkey..... Please don't tell Nancy Hearne...LOLOL!!
100 - but it is true that pronouns are the most difficult part of language development for children and many adults never quite get them. It is a referential concept, and then on top of it we have too many homonyms in english for any sane person. I always thought that it was such a waste to have so many words sound the same and be different meanings and parts of speech.
What's with the proliferation of sites with quizzes about possessive vs plural nouns/pronouns? Maybe if it catches on enough we can start Word Study Group...The Words Intentionally Chosen Especially for Subtlety - TWI/CES. Since TheEvan never announced his score that makes him an unknown - so we must immediately cast him out of TWI/CES as possessed...or was that possessive. And since in the new little Word Study Group anything less than 100% shows lack of comittment and believing Belle gets yelled at every day and put on kitchen duty.... Oh wait I am not possessed either - I got 100.
Sorry I couldn't resist another poke. My humor gets mildly twisted every now and then. It's TheEvan's fault.
Way to go! You know not to trust the MS Grammar Check and you know "no" from "know." Now, go forth and spread the good word (or at least, the proper use of apostrophes).
I realize that there are folks with learning disabilities and, unless I just can't make heads or tails of what someone wrote (and I'd like to), I try to keep my mouth shut because I don't know what's from lack of education and what's because of how their brain works.
It just scares me that so many of the kids (that I know) can't communicate clearly through the written word. I just wonder what business correspondence and white papers are going to look like in the future? Are we, adults, going to have to learn to rd txt msg grmmr 4 th futr?
Belle, one of the better curriculum's I was trained in; when asking my daughter's Sped teacher if she heard of it..because said teacher absolutely sucked at getting the info into the whole classes' heads, her comment was, "I looked at that, but it's so boring." That same language system that she labeled boring had Navajo kids in Tuba City, AZ (English definitely a second language) writing correct paragraphs (8-10 lines) in FIRST GRADE.
But--that "boring" comment gave away a lot of the attitude. Some teachers want it to be fun and zippy or something....when rote boring still works even with LD kids.
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richnchrispy
Number 10 had two correct answers. You probably chose their mistake. :)
Chrispy
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excathedra
100
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TheEvan
Good catch on #10, chrispy.
Too easy.
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Nottawayfer
I got 100%. If it weren't for the second part of the question about monkeys, I would have gotten it wrong. I didn't know the plural of monkey.....
Please don't tell Nancy Hearne...LOLOL!!
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A la prochaine
100%
too easy...
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potato
100% here too, although I was veeeeerrrrry tempted to choose "your a idiot".
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Belle
Not necessarily for some of the people who post here.
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mstar1
surprisingly I got them all right
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washingtonweather
100 - but it is true that pronouns are the most difficult part of language development for children and many adults never quite get them. It is a referential concept, and then on top of it we have too many homonyms in english for any sane person. I always thought that it was such a waste to have so many words sound the same and be different meanings and parts of speech.
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What's with the proliferation of sites with quizzes about possessive vs plural nouns/pronouns? Maybe if it catches on enough we can start Word Study Group...The Words Intentionally Chosen Especially for Subtlety - TWI/CES. Since TheEvan never announced his score that makes him an unknown - so we must immediately cast him out of TWI/CES as possessed...or was that possessive. And since in the new little Word Study Group anything less than 100% shows lack of comittment and believing Belle gets yelled at every day and put on kitchen duty.... Oh wait I am not possessed either - I got 100.
Sorry I couldn't resist another poke. My humor gets mildly twisted every now and then. It's TheEvan's fault.
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coolchef
i will imeaditly go to my room and wallow myself{did i spell it right?} in self codamnation and self pity
i scored 62%
woe is me alas!!!!!!
it must be debbile sprits
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socks
The part about the dog was all so like gross and stuff. 100. :) but I had to put on my Itsa hat.
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A la prochaine
Itsa hat??? :huh:
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Tom Strange
Probably because most of the youth of today barely know the English language...
...but you're right, we've gotta keep an eye on Evan.
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Shellon
90%
Were two of the answer in #10 the same?
I liked the 'you're an idiot' one best too
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watersedge
here's mine...............
laugh away laugh
Your Language Arts Grade: 64%
You only annoy your more literate friends about half the time. Remember, what you do affects those younger than you. Now, figure out your homophones.
try next time
was that spelt curect?
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GeorgeStGeorge
100%. I apparently picked the "correct" choice for #10.
I, too, am often dismayed at the proliferation of apostrophes where they're not needed.
A vocal error that drives me nuts is when someone pronounces processes as "prow-cess-eez." It's not a Latin or Greek plural!
George
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ChattyKathy
I'm afraid to take it because I realize I suck. :unsure:
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markomalley
Way to go! You know not to trust the MS Grammar Check and you know "no" from "know." Now, go forth and spread the good word (or at least, the proper use of apostrophes).
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Shellon
You don't have to show us all here Kathy. Had I not scored 90% I had no intention of posting my score.
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TheEvan
Hey, wait, that's what my wife always tells me!
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Shellon
Oh and richnchrispy already mentioned the #10 thing before I did so.
I'll learn to read one day.
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Belle
I realize that there are folks with learning disabilities and, unless I just can't make heads or tails of what someone wrote (and I'd like to), I try to keep my mouth shut because I don't know what's from lack of education and what's because of how their brain works.
It just scares me that so many of the kids (that I know) can't communicate clearly through the written word. I just wonder what business correspondence and white papers are going to look like in the future? Are we, adults, going to have to learn to rd txt msg grmmr 4 th futr?
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Belle, one of the better curriculum's I was trained in; when asking my daughter's Sped teacher if she heard of it..because said teacher absolutely sucked at getting the info into the whole classes' heads, her comment was, "I looked at that, but it's so boring." That same language system that she labeled boring had Navajo kids in Tuba City, AZ (English definitely a second language) writing correct paragraphs (8-10 lines) in FIRST GRADE.
But--that "boring" comment gave away a lot of the attitude. Some teachers want it to be fun and zippy or something....when rote boring still works even with LD kids.
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