Spulling?

[robinbloke]

Are You Grammatically Incorrect?
Nice work!
Do you diagram sentences in your spare time? You got 8/10 correct.
Quiz

Better than I expected.

Comments

[ua-meruti.livejournal.com]

I got 8/10 too. I should have noted the American Domain name before I started then I would have got 9/10 because the Yanks have this inability when it comes to the Queens English to use the correct terms, such as "Robin and I have completed the test" which is correct, not "Robin and me".
*Goes off and rants about this and British town names being repeated in the new world*.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Which is exactly one of the ones I got wrong :)

[ua-meruti.livejournal.com]

Ah but you didn't sir, you got it right. It's the Americans that are wrong ;)

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Precisely, my dear Thompson.

[drpyrojames.livejournal.com]

Err, except in the example the question concerned the object of the sentence and not the subject so it should have been " Robin and me". :P As in, "She gave exam papers to Robin and me." Which is simply checked by dropping the other person from the sentence and seeing that "She gave the exam paper to I." is just plain wrong.

But then what would I know, I am only a lowly engineer, who got 9/10. (And please don't check my spelling, I am hopeless at that.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Dammit, as usual I have to rely on foreigners to teach me my own language.

Curse you reality!

[drpyrojames.livejournal.com]

Ha!

I have to write for living. Well sort of, I have to write technical papers and research proposals, so I get bloody academics picking me up on my English too. Last time it was a Greek combustion Professor telling me off for using "comprises of", and threating to reject any proposal of mine out of hand if I did it again!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Blame the British school system.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

I will be forwarding you equations to solve.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to write the same thing. ;o)

[ishmaela.livejournal.com]

But according to the scoring, "Robin and I have completed the test" was correct (or whatever the sentence was that asked you to choose between "I" and "me" in that context).

"I" is correct in American usage as well.

[redcountess]

8 out of 10 as well :-)

[sunflowerinrain.livejournal.com]

I got 10/10, but then, I did work as a proofreader and editor for a while. Editors twitch when they see haphazard grammar: things on the department's noticeboards were always decorated with red pen within minutes of being pinned up.