You are a GRAMMAR GOD!
Congratulations! If your mission in life is not already to preserve the English tongue, it should be. You can smell a grammatical inaccuracy from fifty yards. Your speech is revered by the underlings, though some may blaspheme and call you a snob. They’re just jealous. Go out there and change the world.
I’m not sure how I achieved that status, since I did get two of the questions wrong, but I’m not going to dispute it.
Take it for yourself and post your results here (or trackback).
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Somehow a master. I didn’t see anything about how many I got wrong though.
You are a GRAMMAR GOD!
I am a grammar GODDESS, thank you very much. I’ll have to rub that in my beloved’s face.
Grammar Goddess as well…I missed two also!
I don’t know if anyone noticed, but 32% of the people that have taken this quiz are “grammar gods”. I bet you all feel special now.
My name is Grammar Legion; for we are many.
You is all liars’s! Where are the answers?
I suck….student. I always second guess myself on things like this
I think there was a link to the answers after you submit; it’s on there somewhere.
“You are a complete and utter BASTARDIZATION of the English tongue!”
i’m very proud, i wasn’t even going for the high score!
There is a button closer to the bottom of the page that says “see all possible results.” That is where you can see the correct answers.
i just went through again choosing answers at random, got bastardization, and there was no link to all possible results. i guess they don’t think bastards deserve to be educated.
I found it. I was a Master, but I missed 7 according to their answers! Pretty sorry Master. But I challenge some of their answers. Especially the Chris’s one. That’s just dumb.
i’m so frustrated by this. i’ve scanned and search this page a hundred times and still see no link to “all possible results” or answers!
i took it again and got master. i don’t really know what i did differently hahaha. i found the link too! no one mentioned it wasn’t on the quiz page and that i was a button, not a link!
elements of style says “chris’s” and “chris’” are both acceptable, and “you and me” always sounded like sloppy english, even if proper. most of the other questions feature grammatical situations no one will even encounter in real life. a good editor would reword half the sentences in here…are we writting to communicate or writting to stroke our own egos?
The “you and me” vs. “you and I” is just the subject/object distinction. I think it’s one of those things where some people like to correct an improper “me” to the proper “I” so much that it gives the impression that the “me” form is somehow bad.
I do agree though that most of these questions were a bit on the obscure side, or at least had a couple answers which most people would not catch or care much about the difference between the choices presented. I would also agree that if there is a questionable sentence like the ones on that page, the proper approach in most cases would be to alter it in order to avoid the issue and make it more clear.
I don’t think one should be a grammar nazi about it, but I do think that a fairly high degree of attention to proper grammar is an essential part of effective communication. This is not just for the purposes of satisfying the ego of the presenter, but because *effective* communication has as much to do with the listener as the presenter, and if the listener is put off by poor grammar or spelling, then the communication is not going to be successful.
In addition to formal communication, I would even extend this to “public writings” such as blogs, etc. because if someone wants to get an idea of whether you can communicate well in a written format, they will probably check your blog.
I know that some people have personal theories which disagree and are of the opinion that things like grammar and spelling don’t matter in these settings, and I’m not going to criticize them for it, nor will I constantly go around and correct other people on every little thing - that’s just lame.