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I would have used the term 'dork', but this is acceptable as well

Grammar God!
You are a GRAMMAR GOD!

If your mission in life is not already to
preserve the English tongue, it should be.
Congratulations and thank you!

How grammatically sound are you?
brought to you by Quizilla

 

It's like a compulsion, really. I get a nervous twitch when I see anyone regularly swap “its” and “it's”[1]. Of all the ones to confuse, how can you confuse those two, since you can easily sound out “it's” to “it is” to see if it makes sense?

I wish there was some way to see what the right answers are.

[1] The occasional indiscretion is to be forgiven, it could have been a typo.

Posted: Saturday, April 24, 2004 10:26 PM by kclemson
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Shawn said:

Your point would have been better made by saying:

"If preserving the English tongue isn't already your mission in life, it should be."



Note: I'm being a total smartass here.
# April 25, 2004 5:58 AM

Marc's Outlook on Productivity said:

KC Lemson points to a cool grammar quiz. Like KC, I'm a bit of a grammar maven. You are a GRAMMAR GOD! If your mission in life is not already to preserve the English tongue, it should be. Congratulations and thank you! Take the quiz yourself - it's fun and some of the questions will make you think for a moment before answering....
# April 25, 2004 9:32 AM

carlos said:

What about people who switch "your" with "you're"? Those drive me nuts.

Or worse yet, those who write "should of ..." instead of "should have / should've".
# April 25, 2004 7:49 AM

Louis Parks said:

Sadly, I'm only a master.
# April 25, 2004 12:35 PM

Benjamin Mateos said:

I get a Master !.

After all It´s not my native languague ;-)

/r

Benji
# April 25, 2004 3:51 PM

Ensight - Jeremy C. Wright said:

Yessir, I is an Grammar God. I'd take more pleasure in this... If I felt like it. I don't, sorry. But, since it's been all over the blogosphere, I figured I'd give the Grammar Quiz a shot. Here's what I got: You are a GRAMMAR GOD! If your mission in life is not already topreserve the English tongue, it should be.Congratulations and thank you! How grammatically sound are you? brought to you by Quizilla I mean, some of the people I really respect are also grammar gods, so it can't be a bad thing: http://blogs.msdn.com/kclemson/archive/2004/04/24/119702.aspx http://www.sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=1289 http://blogs.geekdojo.net/adam/archive/2004/04/16/1656.aspx http://www.coreyhaines.com/coreysramblings/PermaLink.aspx?guid=1e876b90-d79b-421f-a24a-5ad4281984f5 http://www.coreyhaines.com/coreysramblings/PermaLink.aspx?guid=0ffe99ff-011b-4092-ae6a-44034ec8c565 http://yin.typepad.com/the_yin_blog/2004/04/i_am_a_grammar_.html http://www.livejournal.com/users/bikergeek/262453.html...
# April 25, 2004 7:24 PM

Peter Karsai said:

Am I a Grammar God for real? Weird. I am not a native speaker, I rarely understand song lyrics and recognize maybe every fifth word broadcasted on CNN and I also would fail on most English exams here _due_ to my grammar. This leads me to the conclusion that this test has to be a bit more strict :) Ok, maybe I was just lucky :)

Peter
# April 26, 2004 4:25 AM

Noname said:

One thing I've noticed since moving to the US from the UK is that "what" is used instead of "which" much more frequently. I've noticed it mostly in quiz shows questions like "What actor said...?" rather than "Which actor said...?". I appreciate that both are arguably correct, but the latter just sounds better to me. After all, the questioner is thinking of one specific actor from a finite selection. It sounds even worse to me in even more selective questions like, "What European country is...?".

Which reminds me of a feature called "Pedants' Corner" on a radio show a few years back. One contributor insisted correctly or incorrectly - I'm not sure - that the host should introduce the U2 song as, "I still haven't found that for which I have been looking".

Either way, it sure as hell doesn't scan like the original, eh?
# April 26, 2004 9:05 AM

KC Lemson said:

Peter/Benjamin: In my experience, non-native speakers often have better grammar than natives, because you may have learned the (often insane) rules as adults, or you had more education while growing up about english grammar than folks born in the US. Plus I think that other countries do a better job of teaching languages than this one overall.
# April 26, 2004 9:07 AM

B.Y. said:

I sees, the English grammar god is a Hindu dude.

They independenced from the British, and now they controls the language, finally they can say, all your bases are belong to us !
# April 26, 2004 10:24 AM

Steven said:

you <a href="http://steven.vorefamily.net/2003/05/23.html#a1495 "aren't alone</a>, kc.
# April 26, 2004 10:28 AM

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# April 26, 2004 6:32 PM

システム管理な雑記 -- Sleeve notes of a sysadmin -- said:

[Site] How gramatically sound are you?
# April 29, 2004 10:01 PM

システム管理な雑記 -- Sleeve notes of a sysadmin -- said:

[Site] How gramatically sound are you?
# April 29, 2004 10:01 PM

Kenji Yamamoto [MVP] said:

Well, I am not a native speaker of English. I felt a little bit better to see the result which is saying "You are a GRAMMER GOD!". ;-)
# April 29, 2004 7:09 PM
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