How'z ur Inglesh?? :)

[metalman]

You scored 93% Beginner, 86% Intermediate, 87% Advanced, and 66% Expert!

Compared to users who took the test and are and in your age group:

    * 100% had lower Beginner scores.
    * 100% had lower Intermediate scores.
    * 100% had lower Advanced scores.
    * 100% had lower Expert scores.

[whabang]

Intermediate
You scored 93% Beginner, 86% Intermediate, 75% Advanced, and 55% Expert!
You have a good understanding of beginner and intermediate level commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of the beginner and intermediate level questions correct. This is a good score. Remember, these are commonly confused English words, which means most people don't use them properly. You got a respectable score.

Compared to users who took the test and are and in your age group:

* 100% had lower Beginner scores.
* 100% had lower Intermediate scores.
* 100% had lower Advanced scores.
* 100% had lower Expert scores.

Not bad, for a foreigner...

On a side note: I actually failed in English at school! :lol:

[Nataline]

Advanced
 You scored 100% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 72% Expert!

[adolescent]

I suck at English...

You scored 86% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 87% Advanced, and 77% Expert!

Advanced
You scored 93% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 81% Advanced, and 72% Expert!
You have an extremely good understanding of beginner, intermediate, and advanced level commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of each of these three levels' questions correct. This is an exceptional score. Remember, these are commonly confused English words, which means most people don't use them properly. You got an extremely respectable score.

# Compared to users who took the test and are and in your age group:

    * 100% had lower Beginner scores.
    * 100% had lower Intermediate scores.
    * 100% had lower Advanced scores.
    * 100% had lower Expert scores.

Excellent, everyone else my age is a dumb ass! ;-)

[ajlwalker]

Advanced
You scored 93% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 61% Expert!

Sheesh, seems I'm no expert.  :-)

The one bugbear I really have is when people say "should/could/would of" instead of "should/could/would HAVE"

I don't mind the kids doing it so much, but to see grown adults write this makes me kinda sad.

I don't mind the kids doing it so much

Correct them everytime they say it, and they won't disapoint you with their grammar when they are adults. :-)

[Karlos]

93% seems a common figure for beginner scores, myself included. Does anybody else wonder which question(s) in the beginner level they stuffed up?

[FluffyMcDeath]

ajlwalker wrote:

The one bugbear I really have is when people say "should/could/would of" instead of "should/could/would HAVE"

I can't stand "different THAN" !!! Ugh!

[X-ray]

Ja, on the subject of what grates me:

1) Using "then" instead of "than" in a comparison. Example "He is taller then me." Lots of folks do that.
2) Using "your" and "were" instead of "you're" and "we're." Example "Your going to get caught and were not going to bail you."


But my number one hate is the abuse of the apostrophe in written documents. When I was studying english at University a professor there told us that an apostrophe is always used to denote an omission. This applies even to possession. In the 'old days' if we wanted to talk about a hat that Fluffy was wearing, we might say "Fluffy his hat is black." That got shortened to Fluffy's hat (the apostrophe denotes the omission of part of the word 'his.' So even though the effect of the apostrophe in modern day usage as above denotes possession, it is actually employed to denote omission. The same applies to "doesn't". The apostrophe denotes the omission of the letter o. That's why it doesn't make sense to have "does'nt." Where is the omitted letter and what is it?  If you stick by that rule, you will avoid all abuse of the poor apostrophe. A common abuse is plurals, for example "Video's for sale." Technically what that means is "Video is for sale" because the omission can only be 'is' for it to make sense. But what about "300 video's for sale?" -- that means 300 video is for sale. Doesn't make sense. The apostrophe is not for plurals, even if the noun is a model number such as Boeing 747. If there are 30 of these aircraft, it is 30 Boeing 747s, not 30 Boeing 747's.
And then there is the use of plurals to denote possession, such as "Fluffies hat" but that is another type of abuse altogether...

[Xand]

Advanced
You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 87% Advanced, and 72% Expert!
You have an extremely good understanding of beginner, intermediate, and advanced level commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of each of these three levels' questions correct. This is an exceptional score. Remember, these are commonly confused English words, which means most people don't use them properly. You got an extremely respectable score.

How you compared to other people your age and gender:
    You scored higher than 99% on Beginner
    You scored higher than 99% on Intermediate
    You scored higher than 99% on Advanced
    You scored higher than 99% on Expert  

I'm disappointed. I'll have to go back and study some more.

[X-ray]

@ Xand... (and all the 99%)

LOL

Yours is the same as mine...and I suspect you are in my age group (I'm 33) because when I did mine it told me 100% of those in my age group scored lower than me...but I did the test before you. He he, its all about timing mate  :-P

[ajlwalker]

mdma wrote:

I don't mind the kids doing it so much

Correct them everytime they say it, and they won't disapoint you with their grammar when they are adults. :-)

Lol!  I don't have kids!  What I meant was (excuse my previously lazy English) I don't mind the kids doing it as (hopefully) they are still in education and may yet drop the habit.

@ X-ray

Very enlightening on the apostrophes.  I guess I was getting it right but not really knowing why.  I mean in the  "doesn't" example I fully understand the omission, but the "Fluffy's hat" example was new to me I guess.  It makes perfect sense and I will use this example to educate my peers.   :-)

[Karlos]

X-ray wrote:
@ Xand... (and all the 99%)

LOL

Yours is the same as mine...and I suspect you are in my age group (I'm 33) because when I did mine it told me 100% of those in my age group scored lower than me...but I did the test before you. He he, its all about timing mate  :-P

I did the test before you and I'm 30. Actually I guess that depends exactly where they drew the line for each group.

[Vincent]

From X-ray:

I suspect you are in my age group (I'm 33)

And from Karlos:

I did the test before you and I'm 30.

Brilliant, I feel young again :-D

(28 this October)

[Karlos]

Vincent wrote:
(28 this October)

Enjoy it while it lasts, mate; it's all downhill from there on...