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Posted by Wendybird (Member # 84) on :

Now is your time to gloat! I won't embarass myself by revealing my score though [Wall Bash]

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/quiz/quiz.aspx?QuizID=51

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

quote:
Do you diagram sentences in your spare time? You got 10/10 correct.

Hey, who told?

Posted by Wendybird (Member # 84) on :

[Razz]

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

*judges wordman unfavorably*

Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :

I don't wordman, I made the same error.

Total Score: 7/10

Prognosis: You may want to beg forgiveness from your English teacher.

[Cry]

Sorry, Miss P. I let you down.

Posted by JaneX (Member # 2026) on :

10/10. [Taunt]

~Jane~

Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :

::sits quietly in the back::

::takes notes and names of Grammar Nazis to report to Nuremburg for crimes against humanity::

Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :

10/10

[The Wave]

Thanks, Mom.

Posted by BelladonnaOrchid (Member # 188) on :

10/10. Jee Mommuh, I M SMRT. [Evil]

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

8/10. Just by way of disclosing the degree of my involvement with the revulotion [soc] Ja ja. This just gets owrse and worse. I better go to bet before someone gets hurt.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Ooh, finally a quiz I can do well on!

10/10 -- confirmation that I am a grammar geek. [Big Grin]

The answers had an incorrect statement!

quote:
remember that affect is only used as a verb

Not true! Affect is also a noun -- a very different noun, unrelated (I think) to effect -- but a noun nonetheless.

[ August 21, 2003, 03:04 AM: Message edited by: rivka ]

Posted by Megan (Member # 5290) on :

I've heard (and used) affect as a noun, but only in the context of music. It's related to the doctrine of affects, a baroque concept in which certain musical characteristics (particularly keys) are associated with certain emotions. So, affect in relation to music means "emotional meaning"--not entirely unrelated to effect, but still not the same.

Also, I could be completely off here, but I think it also can be used to indicate affected behavior--as in, behavior that's an act. For example:

Her horror was nothing but affect.

Is this even close to right, or am I just making stuff up?

Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :

If you got 10/10 on this quiz, thank your seventh grade teacher.

Thanks, Mrs. Ball.

Posted by Vána (Member # 3262) on :

9/10, but only because I wiffled on the bad/badly thing, and didn't go with my first answer.

Blast.

But hey, at least now I've learned that rule!

[Hat]

to those of you who scored 10!

Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :

The only one I missed was the affect/effect one I simply try to avoid using either word in a written sentence so I don't have to deal with the problem. I always second guess myself and change it to the wrong one.

AJ

Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :

I affect an attitude of not caring about the effect it has on others when I try to affect their awareness of their poor grammar. In effect, I effect no small amount of indignation but I pretend that it doesn't affect me.

Posted by The Rabbit (Member # 671) on :

10/10. Hard to believe, isn't it, considering how many errors make it in to my posts.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

She tried to affect an air of nonchalance, as though his words had not affected her. But she was unable to hide her true affect. So much for her affectation.

Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :

This has been posted before (by yours truly). And of course, I got a perfect score. [Razz]

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=affect

Posted by jehovoid (Member # 2014) on :

I remember doing it before and I still screwed up the lay/lie.