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Grammar quiz and general grammar thread 2017-05-03 03:47:38 Post No. 9457759
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Alright you god dam fagets time for a rude awakining, did you think you were good at gramer because NEWS FLASH yo'ure fuckin not. Here's a quiz put together by the man himself the bandanna'd frek of nature Himself:
https://101books.net/2011/04/22/the-david-foster-wallace-grammar-quiz/
I got 8/10 because I'm not got dam reterded.
Also general opinions on the necessity of proper gramer, why its important to corect peoples speech and writengs whenever posible, and how smart your mom thinks you is.
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>>9457759
gay as AIDS
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>>9457759
Actually taking issue with split infinitives... ewwww
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>>9457759
I got them all but I don't agree they're all errors.
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>>9457759
>good at grammar
If you speak a language, you're good at grammar. By definition you're perfectly competent with the grammar of your native language. It might just so happen that your particular dialect differs from the variety which happens to have been arbitrarily chosen as the standard in ways which have acquired social associations. For instance, there is nothing wrong with ending a sentence in a preposition according to the rules of any natural dialect of English, but the largely fabricated literary standard includes an entirely unnatural stipulation against doing so.
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i added a comma for 2 instead of at, didn't get 4 or 9. saw whence coming from a mile away, as well as the split infinitive. jeez
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>>9457768
or AIDS as gay. your choice.
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Please someone rec a good grammar book.
Also, has anyone read Practically Painless English? It's by DFW's mom.
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In this bit of pedantry, why is "I fed only the dog" wrong?
>“I fed the dog.”
>“Did you feed the parakeet?”
>“I fed only the dog.”
>“Did anyone else feed the dog?”
>“Only I fed the dog.”
>“Did you fondle/molest the dog?”
>“I only fed the dog!” [Here Wallace’s voice cracked funnily.]
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>>9457759
>Prescriptivists
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>>9462350
The point is that all of those are grammatically correct, yet have different meanings.
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>>9462452
I'm not asking the right question.
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>>9462350
He's saying he didn't feed the parakeet, he fed only the dog.
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'another' originally meant 'the second of two', so to say 'one another' must refer to more than two is absurd, even by prescriptivist standards.
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>>9457759
I got 7 and trust me most of them are common sense.... Didn't study English as a primary subject but yes those sentences sounded wrong to my ignorant mind.
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