Tuesday, May 19, 2009

LEL #5

I've done the Grammar practice #1 for my fifth LEL. There was forty questions about grammar, punctuation, capitalization, verb, adjective, adverb and pronoun.

I scored 65%. At first, I wasn't happy with myself, but then I looked at the real answers and explanations and I saw that it was filled with errors. For example, look at this sentence.










Tommy's Bar and Grill was | conveniently located on | one of the main

streets | in downtown Waynesberg. |






Here, I had to choose what part of the sentence had wrongly used a capital or needed one. In this particular question, I answered that no part was wrong. The test said that the answer was the first part and here's the explanation : ''the conjunction "and" does not take a capital.''

The word ''and'' clearly didn't have a capital. Numerous questions were falsely corrected like this. This test was interesting to do, but I give it 0/10 because it seems to have been corrected by a drunk monkey.

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