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Mar. 2nd, 2011 09:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dakegraToday I was on a Plain English for Clearer Writing course at work. Enormous fun, and extremely interesting.
I was given the nickname 'Apostrophe Dave', as I spotted a couple of things other people didn't, including a couple that others missed, including the trainer.
He pointed me at this BBC test: http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/punctuation/apostrophes/game.shtml
(second one on that page), and said that the level 3 test was hard.
Naturally I tried it when I got back to my desk, and scored full marks.
Right, your turn. How did you do?
I was given the nickname 'Apostrophe Dave', as I spotted a couple of things other people didn't, including a couple that others missed, including the trainer.
He pointed me at this BBC test: http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/punctuation/apostrophes/game.shtml
(second one on that page), and said that the level 3 test was hard.
Naturally I tried it when I got back to my desk, and scored full marks.
Right, your turn. How did you do?
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Date: 2011-03-02 10:18 pm (UTC)Quick! before the kids find out we have cookies!
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Date: 2011-03-03 04:51 am (UTC)of the Skillswise Apostrophes
quiz and have scored:
10 /10
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Are you really surprised that your friends are scoring well? Those all seemed quite obvious to me.
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Date: 2011-03-03 08:20 pm (UTC)a. smart,
b. ridiculously well-read, and
b. jolly attractive human beings.
Hmm. The one I did had 15 questions at level 3, I'm sure.
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Date: 2011-03-03 10:20 pm (UTC)The game is where we all seem to have chosen "it's not" when it was looking for "it isn't" as a contraction for "it is not".