Your Language Arts Grade: 100%
Way to go! You know not to trust the MS Grammar Check and you know "no" from "know." Now, go forth and spread the good word (or at least, the proper use of apostrophes).
Are You Gooder at Grammar?Make a QuizBitch please, I would have gotten that score in second grade
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Here I was expecting questions on the proper use of semi-colons, or split infinitives or something.
I have no idea what a split infinitive is, by the way. I just know it's a grammar thing that.....I don't know.
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An example of a split infinitive would be: to boldly go.
The rule comes about because in Latin, infinitives are a single word (cf. "amare," "to love" or "videre," "to see") and cannot be split. When the rules of English grammar were codified in the 1600s, Latin was the langauge of scholars, so certain artificial constraints based on Latin were introduced to English. For example, it is considered incorrect to end a sentence with a preposition not because you cannot do so in English, but because you cannot do so in Latin (the object of a preposition MUST follow after it, never precede it.)
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So I was always taught that one would say "The dog shook its head," not "The dog shook its' head." However, I can't pull up the quiz right now to cross-reference, because I am at work.
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None of this matters. What matters is that we both scored 100%!
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*demands reference!* :)
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