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This is Why I'll Never Go Back to School
I got 8 out of 10. How did you do?
One of the reasons I enjoy writing on this site is I'm graded on content, not fiddly-ass grammar rules nobody remembers anyway. Well, except for my mom at least.
I got 6/10.... damn public school education.
Posted by: Jim S on December 18, 2003 02:04 PM10 out of 10, with a public school education.
Posted by: Robert H on December 18, 2003 03:08 PMEeP!!!!! 7/10 and I'm a magazine editor!!!!!
Posted by: battie on December 18, 2003 03:43 PMNine out of ten but I was only sure of 8. lol Now let's have a test on the periods and commas! I can't spell at all.
Posted by: Pat on December 18, 2003 05:21 PM6/10, and I, too, write for a living! (Free commas for everyone!) But I write audio copy, so it only has to SOUND good. Or "well"... whatever.
Posted by: Rob on December 18, 2003 05:54 PMI received 7 out of 10, but then I am a Computer Scientist. I only have to be able to write correctly so the compiler will understand, and comments aren't complete sentences most of the time.
Posted by: Cindy on December 18, 2003 10:49 PM10/10 here. Of course, my mother was an english teacher.
Posted by: Tatterdemalian on December 18, 2003 11:01 PM10/10 and I stole the test URL for my grandson!
Posted by: Indigo on December 18, 2003 11:23 PM9 for 10. I had a hard time with #10 (which I missed) because I have never seen the contraction "could've" actually used, so I didn't think it really existed.
I assumed the correct answer (according to them) was going to be "could of", which I was going to blast, as I knew that it was should have been "could have". Anyway, I protest my score because of the sloppy use of contraction (which I'm still not conviced exists).
Posted by: bogie on December 19, 2003 12:21 AMWe use it on this very site, although after searching not anywhere near as often as I thought.
Posted by: Scott on December 19, 2003 07:05 AMI'm convinced that 90% of the rules on English don't really exist, but were rather made-up on the fly by some grade-school teacher seeking to imprint a particular thought pattern upon her students, in the hopes that some of them would grow up to be famous writers whose use of the teacher's imprinted rules would lead to widespread adoption of those rules.
"Could've" has always been a contraction for "could have," but there are probably teachers who try to convince their students that it doesn't exist. I had a teacher who tried to convince me that the contraction "its" didn't exist, and that "it is" should always be spelled out to avoid confusion with the third person neuter posessive singular "it's" (which, she insisted, had an apostrophe). My mother had a serious row with that teacher, and put me in a new school the next year... not that it was any better, they just weren't as blatant about their manipulations.
Posted by: Tatterdemalian on December 19, 2003 02:36 PMThe contraction "it's," not "its." (See how messed up I am?)
Posted by: Tatterdemalian on December 19, 2003 02:44 PM