For your Pedants: Grammar and Punctuation Test

[enjay]

12/14 here. Got the "pride" one wrong (stupid now I think about it), and the "gerund" question at the end. I've never heard that word before, so I'm happy enough that my total guess was incorrect!

[SteveBentley]

9/14. But is it really necessary to know *what* a gerund or a prepositional clause is, rather that you use them correctly?

[elsiegee40]

9/14. But is it really necessary to know *what* a gerund or a prepositional clause is, rather that you use them correctly?

You are correct. I was very good at grammar at school, but Clause Analysis in English lessons (this was the 1970s) bored me to tears. I could see the point in learning how to write correctly, but I couldn't see why I needed to know the names of the different types of clauses

[pooley]

8/14 here and guessed 3 of those, personally I don't see the point in worrying about spelling and grammar these days, as long as you can be understood eh?

 

[Gatt]

10/14

 

Got #6, #8, #12 & #14 wrong

 

However the teacher(s) who set this homework should be shot!

Edited February 7, 2013 by Gatt

[Oaktech]

12... got caught out by the prepositional phrase and the active voice.

[elsiegee40]

10/14

 

Got #6, #8, #12 & #14 wrong

 

However the teacher(s) who set this homework should be shot!

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If that had been sent home with my child, all hell would have broken loose!

[Gatt]

I actually struggled to read what was written! There isn't a single line that's right.

Whilst it has the hallmarks of a spoof, I can find no other reference to it other than where it came from. (It was posted by a Real Radio NW DJ - whose child received the letter!)

[enjay]

personally I don't see the point in worrying about spelling and grammar these days, as long as you can be understood

Agreed with regards to spelling, but correct grammar is an important part of making yourself understood. The same words in the same order can mean very different things depending on comma placement, so a good way of ensuring that the reader takes the same meaning as the writer intended is if they're both using the same standards.

 

Granted, you don't need to know what the passive voice is or what a sub-ordinate clause is, but you do need to know how to use them correctly and effectively.

[witch]

I was taught proper grammar and spelling but I didn't have long lessons about it as @elsiegee40 did.

I think correct grammar and spelling is VERY important - it isn't easy to make yourself thoroughly understood, and be sure that someone really knows what you are saying, without it.

You wouldn't call a cable or other piece of tech kit by the wrong name, or use the wrong syntax or whatever when writing code, would you?

[Gatt]

Bad spelling, and definitely grammar and punctuation could be deadly:

 

For instance:

Shall we eat Grandma?

Shall we eat, Grandma?

[CHR1S]

11 and guessed most, educated guesses, but guesses all the same!

[mwbutler]

Heh I got 12/14 and all "educated" guesses. To prove that, I got questions 3 and 4 wrong and by the looks of things the hardest 12, 13 and 14 right! Edited February 7, 2013 by mwbutler