ENGLISH EXAM!

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Guden Oden

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You are a MASTER of the English language!


Huzzah. While your English is not exactly
perfect, you are still more grammatically
correct than just about every American. Others
admire the way you speak and could learn a lot
from listening to you. Still, there is always
room for improvement...


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Better than I expected I must say. :D
 
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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.



Your English is very good Guden, TBH it's very hard to tell it's not your first language (that's true of a lot of the non-native speakers here too BTW).

I have to say that some of the questions in that test are pretty anal and verging on the petty. English is a living language, the "rules" evolve through time with usage. It's defined by implementation if you like.

If we all lived by these anal rules, we wouldn't be blessed with the rich variety of regional dialects in the UK that make chaps from the North sound oh-so comical. Reet, chook?
 
This is an american test!!! What do they know!? :LOL:

You are a MASTER of the English language!

Huzzah. While your English is not exactly perfect, you are still more grammatically correct than just about every American. Others admire the way you speak and could learn a lot from listening to you. Still, there is always room for improvement...
 
nutball said:
Your English is very good Guden, TBH it's very hard to tell it's not your first language (that's true of a lot of the non-native speakers here too BTW).
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Thank you, thank you! :D

I believe I can mostly credit my fairly OK english on the vast amounts of UK computer gaming magazines such as Zzap! 64, C+VG, Commodore User etc that I consumed in the mid-80s to early 90s. My golly, those were the days!

...Oh, and also the fact we don't dub foreign TV and movies in this country either, apart from kid stuff that is. So Hollywood has to bear considerable blame also hehehe. :p

I have to say that some of the questions in that test are pretty anal and verging on the petty. English is a living language, the "rules" evolve through time with usage. It's defined by implementation if you like.
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Yeah, considering the language has become so global, used by so many different sub-groups etc... But even with grunge, skater-wear, goth etc, there's still room for suits and ties in the fashion world, and so will there be room for "proper" english amongst inner-city slum dialects, leet-speek and other weird and wonderful diverging flavors.

English is cool, I think that no matter what word you look up on urbandictionary.com, there's a synonym for "penis" there listed for it. :D

Reet, chook?
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What you say?

Someone set you up the bomb? :D
 
nutball said:
English is a living language, the "rules" evolve through time with usage. It's defined by implementation if you like.
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That and the fact that English as a language is not regulated by any organism.

In other words anyone can create any word, grammar rule, figure of speech he wants.
For instance I, for one, have create Engrish Vistaâ„¢ it's a, more or less, comphrensive implementation of the english language in a francophone environment.
 
1080162080_cturesgod3.jpg

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.



:p

I must say I thought some of them were quite difficult...

I did find this line rather amusing though:

you are still more grammatically correct than just about every American.
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:LOL:
 
Errr... Is this test really right? It claims that correct form is

"I had lain myself down for a nap"'

I would have put my ass on stake that it should have been

"I had laid myself down for a nap"


I've kinda always thought the meaning of the verb lie (lay,lain) in "lie down" is about being down right now, while the verb lay (laid,laid) in "lay down" would mean an action to get or put something down. 'Lie' does not seem sensible here.


To me, English is pretty much the BASIC of human languages. Laymen think it's easy and productive, while in reality its usage tends to result in horrible mess and the screwed-up constructs of its many dialects not only cause confusion but also act as a burden when learning other languages.
 
WhiningKhan said:
Errr... Is this test really right? It claims that correct form is

"I had lain myself down for a nap"'

I would have put my ass on stake that it should have been

"I had laid myself down for a nap"


I've kinda always thought the meaning of the verb lie (lay,lain) in "lie down" is about being down right now, while the verb lay (laid,laid) in "lay down" would mean an action to get or put something down. 'Lie' does not seem sensible here.
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Your considerations about "to lie down" and "to lay down" are correct, but your conclusions are not. It's what is "missing" there that makes all the difference.
 
1080162080_cturesgod3.jpg

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.




:oops: Surprised even myself. Which is funny being that in high school I didn't do to well in english, but in college I was top rung (maybe it was the money ;) )
 
1080162080_cturesgod3.jpg

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.

This test is now officially BS.
 
Crisidelm said:
WhiningKhan said:
I've kinda always thought the meaning of the verb lie (lay,lain) in "lie down" is about being down right now, while the verb lay (laid,laid) in "lay down" would mean an action to get or put something down. 'Lie' does not seem sensible here.
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Your considerations about "to lie down" and "to lay down" are correct, but your conclusions are not. It's what is "missing" there that makes all the difference.
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If you mean 'myself' by the missing part that makes the difference, I viewed that as a confirmation that 'lay' should be the correct verb, since I've been led to believe that 'lie' can only be used intransitively, and 'myself' looks pretty much like an object to me in that sentence. I guess this is only intuitive to natives.

I consider my English<->BASIC -comparison validated now...
 
Alice in Wonderland.

No, wait, that is the English Exam that is the Brown section of Classic Trivial Pursuit. . .
 
Zaphod said:
I only had 12/20 questions right, I think, and that quiz still clasified me and a MASTER of the english language. I gues that says it all, huh... Still: Not too dishonorable for a non native speaker, I guess.
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Edit: Somebody expalin question 8 to me: "Everybody -> her"?
 
Zaphod said:
Edit: Somebody expalin question 8 to me: "Everybody -> her"?
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"Grade" is a singular form ergo "her", which is the third person singular, Any variation of the third person plural (they) would require a plural form (grades).

I think.

Take it from someone who just became aware of their own divinity..



;)

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Oh damn: Tricked out by the multiple choice question. I swear I would have gotten that if not for the alternatives. Now someone explain why 'their' or 'their own' can not be used. Tried looking it up, but I still can't see it. (A literature search yilded several such constructions, including a passage where this exact problem was discussed by the protagonists.) Perhaps it’s a non-native thing again. Do English have many allowed, but not preferred, constructions? I can't remember.

Edit: To answer myself: The 'grade' apperantly has nothing to do with it.
Everyone, everybody, someone, and no-one are singular pronouns and must therefore be followed by the singular possessive pronoun, namely his or her
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<img src="http://images.quizilla.com/B/BaalObsidian/1080162080_cturesgod3.jpg" border="0" alt="Grammar God!"><br>You are a <b>GRAMMAR GOD</b>!
<br><br>Congratulations! If your mission in life<br>is not already to preserve the English tongue,<br>it should be. You can smell a grammatical<br>inaccuracy from fifty yards. Your speech is<br>revered by the underlings, though some may<br>blaspheme and call you a snob. They're just<br>jealous. Go out there and change the world.
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Bah, how the hell do you get it to look like it should? :(
 
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