Heh, congratulations! And you're not even a native speaker! Though you're only a Monty Python God, which is a bit insulting. XD
Some of those questions were rather ridiculous. How many people use the plural of "Mr." anymore? And bringing up that whole "shall/will" thing is rather like throwing somebody into a bear-baiting pit. There are the grammarians, who invented those stupid rules based on Latin, not on how English speakers speak (also that "everybody/their" bit, which has a long and respectable tradition in English); and there are normal people, and the defenders of normal people, who refuse to say "shall" except under extraordinary circumstances. I guess I count myself as part of that anti-grammarian group.
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Some of those questions were rather ridiculous. How many people use the plural of "Mr." anymore? And bringing up that whole "shall/will" thing is rather like throwing somebody into a bear-baiting pit. There are the grammarians, who invented those stupid rules based on Latin, not on how English speakers speak (also that "everybody/their" bit, which has a long and respectable tradition in English); and there are normal people, and the defenders of normal people, who refuse to say "shall" except under extraordinary circumstances. I guess I count myself as part of that anti-grammarian group.
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