Are you Smarter than a Spell Checker?

[NWFlyer 2]

There's some tough ones in here ... even for grammar geeks like me.

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[micduran 0]

I got 6 out of 10. Ouch.

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[gavi_omen 0]

8 out of 10. I always heard it was best to read your written piece backwards to look for mistakes. Seems it's a way to get around your mental ability to whitewash things.

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[BillyVance 34]

Bitching! I got a perfect 10 out of 10!

Hey, I was really good at English in school. It's the math that I suck at.

This is why I can't understand how I picked my job field in architecture... I probably should have been a writer.

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[virgin-burner 1]

i thinnk i skip out on that one..

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[BillyVance 34]

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i thinnk i skip out on that one..

No shame in that. It's a hard language what with words having multiple meanings for the same spelling, diction, grammar and all that shit. I had very good English teachers growing up.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[Nightingale 0]

I missed the led/lead one. Other than that, I did okay.

[PLFXpert 0]

9/10.

Stationery/ary got me.

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

[jcd11235 0]

10/10

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[BillyVance 34]

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10/10

Woo hoo! High Five! (slap)

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[Muenkel 0]

8/10

Prospective and trouper got me.

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Chris

[JustChuteMeNow 0]

On my second time through I got 10/10.

Think of how stupid the average person is and realize that statistically half of them are stupider than that.

[Muenkel 0]

There is a grammatical error in one of the sentences that they do not point out.

Hint: It's a comma splice. You don't use a comma before a conjunction.

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Chris

[Shell666 0]

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10/10

Same here!

'Shell

[1969912 0]

10/10

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[Harris 0]

8/10! I feel smart...

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[Squeak 17]

9-10 trouper had me

You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky)
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[flygirl69 0]

8/10...Oh well! And to think that used to be my favorite subject...

[Shell666 0]

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9-10 trouper had me

Well, being Canadian, I knew Trooper was all about the boys in the bright white sports car!





Edited to add a link for those scratching their heads ...

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=KU304Gs3r60

'Shell

[jcd11235 0]

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There is a grammatical error in one of the sentences that they do not point out. Hint: It's a comma splice.

Are you referring to the use of the Oxford comma in sentence ten? It's correct either way, but in that case, the comma helps clarify the sentence.

However, sentences 3, 4, 6, and 10 are sentence fragments.

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You don't use a comma before a conjunction.

Sometimes you do. If the sentence contains two or more independent clauses, then they should be separated by a comma and a coordinating conjunction.

Example: Packing is fairly easy, but it can be frustrating to learn.

Commas can also be used following the next to last item in a list.

Example: The colors of his canopy are green, red, and yellow.

In this case, the last comma in the sentence is sometimes referred to as an Oxford comma and is sometimes not used. There is valid reasoning for both methods, but writers should be consistent.

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[BillyVance 34]

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9-10 trouper had me

Not bad for an Aussie!

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[Squeak 17]

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9-10 trouper had me

Not bad for an Aussie!

I even know what the words SOUND like

You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky)
My Life ROCKS!
How's yours doing?

[popsjumper 2]

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9/10.

Stationery/ary got me.

Yeah..me too.

One thing though.
There's Spell Checkers and there's Grammar Checkers.

I thought this was a Spell Checker exercise. So tell me, when did Spell/Grammar get all rolled together into simple Spell Checker?
Yes, I'm old skool.

And on top of that, the "checker" used in the test sucks since it didn't pickup the fragments.

My 9/10 means nothing except that I'm stupid enough to sit here and go through it...and then respond to it.


BTW...screw all you comma nazis.


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[NWFlyer 2]

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I thought this was a Spell Checker exercise.

The point of this one was that the spell checker will not save you from mistakes. Each of those words was correctly spelled. But still wrong.

The company I worked at fresh out of college did a lot of contracts for the federal government's various health care agencies. As such, we used the word "public" quite a bit.

Consequently, we found it important to remove the word "pubic" from our spell checker.

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[jcd11235 0]

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BTW...screw all you comma nazis.

I generally am not a big fan of perfect grammar and certainly don't follow all the rules in an informal setting. (I do despise terrible grammar by native speakers, but I usually give a lot of slack to people who speak and write English as a second language.) In fact, I've actively resisted learning formal rules since about the seventh grade.

However, on rare occasions, just to prove to myself that I still can …

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