tags: grammar, punctuation, online quiz
| You Scored an A |
 You got 10/10 questions correct. It's pretty obvious that you don't make basic grammatical errors. |
How did you score? And how did the authors of this quiz guess that basic punctuation and grammar mistakes on blogs can drive me to distraction?
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My, that was an easy quiz. Surely there's one out there that touches on subtler issues of grammar and punctuation.
A (10/10) was my result.
Lucky for me it was easy :o)
10/10 two.
Bob
10/10 for me too.
That quiz was really just about its vs it's and there/their/they're. Any 6th grader should be able to pass this one.
This is a spelling test. Only if someone would actually say "they are" instead of "there" is this a grammar error.But it's a spelling error (well, several errors) that really do make lots of people sneer, so mastering these homophones is pretty important. (10/10).
Yeah, it's focused on two sets of common errors, and once you've learned those, you've just learned them! (10/10 for me too.)
Did anyone _not_ get 10/10?
(10/10 for me too)