Quiz: 10 questions on grammar

[Svartalf]

I got 9 out of 10. I dispute the one I got wrong-- that versus which.

I deduced correctly... didn't bother me but I had to think through the testing rather than about the sheer grammar.

[Svartalf]

shut up.

Capitalization of the first word of every sentence is mandatory unless you're writing in the obfuscatory preterite passive fourth person pluprefect in Mongolian. goddamn Mongorians!

nobody cares about capitals, and I'm a nobody, so I just made a paradox because I actually don't.

[MiM]

Seven out of ten. I was quite comfortable with all the questions on the use of the language, - but with the ones involving grammatical terminology, I didn't have a clue.

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Six out of ten here, because I missed on the punctuation questions too. One of theme was really obscure.

Not too bad for a non-native engineer/physicist.

[Hermit]

Surprise! I'm a promising pedant. 7/10.

Luckily there were not more questions involving punctuation. I would have done even worse.

When did you start speaking English, Hermit? It's a particularly good score for a second language.

We came to Australia in 1969, so the result isn't particularly good after all. Not only that, but some people can still discern a slight accent in my speech after all these years, although more often than not cannot tell from which country it stems.

In some regards, I don't take some grammatical rules too seriously, particularly the ones regarding the splitting of infinitives and the placement of prepositions. You know, the ones that are more concerned with style than enhancing the clarity of meaning.

[pErvinalia]

Which of the following is not correct?

I was sitting in the chair
I sat in the chair
I was sat in the chair
It's "was sat". To use "was" requires the participle "sitting" after it.

I don't buy that, "I was sat in the chair" means someone other than myself put me in the chair.

Exactly. That was the one I was talking about earlier.

[MiM]

Which of the following is not correct?

I was sitting in the chair
I sat in the chair
I was sat in the chair
It's "was sat". To use "was" requires the participle "sitting" after it.

I don't buy that, "I was sat in the chair" means someone other than myself put me in the chair.

Exactly. That was the one I was talking about earlier.

Agree, but as I couldn't find anything wrong with either of the other, I thought they probably overlooked that possibility.

[FBM]

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I don't buy that, "I was sat in the chair" means someone other than myself put me in the chair.

It's the passive voice, so...