Are You Grammatically Incorrect?

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[daryn]

8/10.. what a moron.

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

You is ghey irregardless.

[brassnuts]

I got an 8/10... I got the lay down question wrong and the feel bad question wrong.

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

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I got an 8/10... I got the lay down question wrong and the feel bad question wrong.

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despite knowing why "laid" is the wrong answer i still got that one wrong.

[daryn]

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I got an 8/10... I got the lay down question wrong and the feel bad question wrong.

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ditto

[_2000Flushes]

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Nice work!
Do you diagram sentences in your spare time?

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10/10. And English is the only class in which I never made an A.

-2kF

[deacsoft]

10 for 10. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[AngryCola]

I'm not ashamed of my score.

5/10

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I happen to disagree with certain aspects of "proper grammar".

[Gatts]

8/10. "As if he were" and "Feel bad"

[astroglide]

i only missed the gay lay question

[TimM]

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i only missed the gay lay question

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[emonrad87]

pwnd.

10/10.

[pshreck]

Is this for real?

So if I asked someone what they did last night, and they say "I lay down and went to bed.", that is correct? That's the dumbest part of the english language ever if it is.

[Rushmore]

I got 10 out of 10, but I think they just asked the ten questions to which I happened to know the answers.

Just for the record, I'd like to (perhaps annoyingly) point out that the title of your post is ironic, as it is actually grammatically incorrect.

A person cannot be "grammatically incorrect." A person's language can be.

I just annoyed even myself.

[pshreck]

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A person cannot be "grammatically incorrect." A person's language can be.

I just annoyed even myself.

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This is not gramatically incorrect. It might not be the best way of saying it, but it isn't incorrect.

[istewart]

I take issue with the "coolest guy" question. I think it could go either way.

[Rushmore]

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A person cannot be "grammatically incorrect." A person's language can be.

I just annoyed even myself.


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This is not gramatically incorrect. It might not be the best way of saying it, but it isn't incorrect.

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I'm sorry, but you're wrong.

If a person says "he ain't going nowhere," that person's grammar is incorrect, but that person cannot be said to be "grammatically incorrect."

The adjective grammatical pertains to the language, not to the person using the language. A person can be said to use language which incorporates grammatically incorrect phraseologies, but the person himself cannot, by any standard usage of the phrase, be said to be "grammatically incorrect."

Just as one cannot say that a cancer patient "is malignant." It is the cancer which is malignant, and any usage as described is merely colloquial or jargonistic.

[_2000Flushes]

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Just as one cannot say that a cancer patient "is malignant." It is the cancer which is malignant, and any usage as described is merely colloquial or jargonistic.

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The malignant cancer patient. One of my all-time favorite colloquialisms.


Hey, Rushmore. I think pshreck understands the distinction between a grammatically incorrect person and a grammatically incorrect sentence. The point is that the OP's sentence was syntactically incorrect (whereas the grammar is fine).

-2kF

[Fat Nicky]

5/10 correct. I suck.

[dr. klopek]

Rigged.

[Sponger15SB]

4/10

I'd like to mention that I did pass my AP english test, and also I got a 670 on my SAT II Writing.

[ThaSaltCracka]

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4/10

I'd like to mention that I did pass my AP english test, and also I got a 670 on my SAT II Writing.

[/ QUOTE ]you clearly cheated.

BTW, 6/10.