Have You Got a Grasp of Grammar?

There's a trick I learned a long time ago.

i.e. basically means "in other words"
e.g. basically means "for example"

So just remember the letters:

I for i.e./IN (other words)
E for e.g./(for) EXAMPLE

Hope this helps.

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Callie, I did the same for lawyers and engineers for many years. It never ceased to amaze me that the higher the education level, the lower their grasp of grammar and (horrors) spelling!

Less, decimals make me

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I remember a millennial coworker who handed in a memorandum for me to look over. Forgetting the utter lack of linear coherency that was needed for those particular documents, or even grammar errors (I know my standard for grammar and puncuation in formal documents is far above the average person's), I was shocked at how many texting short cuts he was using. They were nothing terribly obvious, like using "2" for "to", but they were unacceptable short cuts in a document such as that.

I sent him back the corrections and talked with him about it. I said, "You do a lot of texting don't you?" He started to freaking tear up right there. I swear, so many millennials dissolve into a puddle of tears at the first sign of criticism. Anyway, he said, "Yes, how can you tell?" I told him it was because he was using so many texting short cuts in the memo, and, that it was okay, just fix it.

He returned the memo with the corrections, but he didn't speak to me for two days, lol.

BTW, he had a Masters degree in a business discipline. I don't understand how he graduated college, let alone a graduate degree, with that level of writing skill.

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I got a 91. Got tripped up by "of" and "have". Everyone says "of" instead of "have" here in Missouri! LOL

Eh. They don't say of instead of have. It just sounds like it. So your folk are entirely correct!!

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"Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built."

I got a 75... good considering by the time I learned to read no one was teaching grammer. The only grammer rule I remember was from School House Rock

I missed the ie/eg and the who/whom. Still a guru though.

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I missed the i.e./e.g. question. I never used those much in elementary school. God forbid the high school I attended would teach such things.

What trips me up is deciding between wether and whether. Even spell check on this site says "wether" is misspelled.

ok, now i understand why i should have listened instead of watching the boys...

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91%,,I.E. and E.G.got me and one other that I forgot to change before I submitted,,I didn't really think I would as good as I did.

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Hi Folks,

97 for me. Oog. I missed one, and I don't remember which question. A favorite mantra of my Mother was, "Never end a sentence with a preposition." (And that is something with which cannot put up I!) Both my Mother and the nuns who taught me diagramming would be disappointed, but since it has been half a century since then, I don't feel too terribly bad.

In fact, upon reflection, I think it's a pretty good score. I'll take it!

97. Harumph.....

Barb

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I scored 91 also and the ones I got wrong I shouldn't have. maybe going too fast. I thought they were really simple. ~Georgia.

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I got a 91% too.........
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I scored 100% also however with regard to X-Ray reports the left side of the film is the patient's right side of the body, except for most nuclear scans, so depending upon the wording the doctor might have been correct if (s)he was referring to a film and not to the patient (but that's probably not what was happening).

The thing that I found most interesting of that was that she obviously was not a German (since it's common in German to dangle prepositions) and yet you capitalized Mother, which a German would do.

97% correct

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Most films have the tags they place with the body that have an L and an R. The report was later corrected, I saw. Just a case of a mix-up on the doc's part. Very common!

My neighbor was visiting here while I opened this thread on the laptop. I read a little, then gave him the computer to look at it.

He mumbled the title question out loud: "Have you got a grasp of Grammar?" Weird smile. He looks up and says "call me old fashioned and conservative, but only Grampa should have a grasp of Grammar."

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