| Your English Skills: |
 Grammar: 100% Vocabulary: 80% Punctuation: 60% Spelling: 40% |
Of course, the results don’t tell you which questions you supposedly got wrong. The open and closed punctuation in question #14, for instance, is largely a question of personal style, and the standard usage varies in different parts of the world. (You’ll find the comma outside the quotation marks more often in the UK than you will here in the United States.)
But, really, what’s the point of any quiz if you never learn where you went wrong?
These are the answers:
1. Fawning & subservient
2. Gigantic
3. Urge
4. Peaceful
5. Cowardly
6. first option
7. Me
8. first option
9. first option
10.first option
11. second option
12. second option
13. second option
14. first option
15. first option
16. exceed
17. millennium
18. supersede
19. mischievous
20. misspell
Are you sure about #14? That’s how I’d write it, but grammatically, either option is correct depending on the style you adopt.
#11, on the other hand, is something of a pet peeve of mine. Using just a comma to separate “however…” from the sentence before it really bugs me.
I got 100% on grammar and spelling, 80% on vocabulary and punctuation. Guess I can keep teaching that editing class…
I think you could go either way with #14, but the first option is how I was taught to do it.
And I think #11 is the way it is because it represents two ideas in the same sentence.