How Good is Your Grammar ?

[qbman1]

I am often rattling on about the misuse of apostrophes and such but no one seems to care much about grammar these days. Try this little BBC quiz to see how you fare....Grammar Quiz

I am ashamed to confess I only scored 4 which has me as a "promising pedant". Probably about right really !!

[Dark Knight]

5 but one I had seen before...so 4 really

couldnt care less about ' and : and ; everyone knows what you mean

[david63]

I cannot tell lie - I got 9

[GillD46]

Only 7 I'm afraid - and I'd always thought my grammar was pretty good.

[Quizzical Bob]

9 out of 10
I don't agree with some of them. 'I was sat in a chair' is ok if somebody sat you there.

[Jan Rosser]

8 out of 10 but I confess I guessed one so perhaps I should say 7.

[Stephen]

innit like

[emjay45]

English Grammar was my worst subject in school, although I did manage to pass it at 'O'level. So not surprisingly I only got 4.

[arcadialover]

Given my job I should get 10 and I did. Phew.

[Boris+]

Only 9 for me, but I don't care - maybe I was simply lucky.

Em

[Dark Knight]

thank the lord for spell and grammar checkers on me PC

[Delboy]

I got to the first question, Whose cats are using our neighbour's garden?

I don't know and I don't care as long as it's not mine

Gave up on the rest, as my Grammar is useless

[Southwinds]

Eight .......

[Not so ancient mariner]

I disagreed with a couple of them, and couldn't help but notice that their sentences tended to suffer from the absence of a full stop.

A.P.E.Dant

[Silver_Shiney]

7 out of ten - the ones involving technical terms (eg gerund) - didn't have a clue what they were on about.

""The Queen arrived at the castle with the King by her side, in a dress adorned with hand-sewn embroidered dragons." What kind of mistake is this?" Obviously a fashion mistake

[Onelife]

The test only confirms what you already know about my grammar

Regards

OL

[david63]

7 out of ten - the ones involving technical terms (eg gerund) - didn't have a clue what they were on about.

""The Queen arrived at the castle with the King by her side, in a dress adorned with hand-sewn embroidered dragons." What kind of mistake is this?" Obviously a fashion mistake

Why was the King wearing a dress?

[Not so ancient mariner]

Why was the King wearing a dress?

Whatever the reason, the King's dress has got to be better than the Emperor's new clothes!

[Holiday Planner]

6/10 for me. Like some others I hadn't a clue what the technical terms meant. I'm a bit pedantic on the rules I know, but clearly don't know it all!

[jay-ell71]

6 for me too. I got the cat one right, but it was not clear how many neighbours owned the garden.

The technical ones caught me out although I recognised the errors but not the technical terms. Gerund, wassat?

I had not thought of that interpretation of "sat in a chair" Pedant indeed.

PS What does " Pedant " mean

[emjay45]

PS What does " Pedant " mean

It means you spend your life fussing about things that don't really matter such as where you put a semi-colon.

[HK phooey]

A very poor 5 out of 10 and one of those was a wild guess.

[Stephen]

The test only confirms what you already know about my grammar

Regards

OL

Yeah, it's sh*t..innit

[Stephen]

Started to do it then my zero attention span kicked in and I gave up.

[Holiday Planner]

PS What does " Pedant " mean

It means you spend your life fussing about things that don't really matter such as where you put a semi-colon.

Although many people struggle to punctuate properly (myself included when it comes to semi-colons, though I think I'm OK with apostrophes), it makes it much easier to read a piece of writing which has been written using correct grammar and punctuation. If it's well written you don't even notice it. If you have to read it twice to make sense of it there may well be something wrong with the punctuation or grammar.

I bet you've had to read this at least twice