TEST YOUR GRAMMAR IQ!

1 How many spelling errors does this sentence contain?

Godwin was responsable for finding grammer errors and mispellings in the quarterly reports.

2 You run into your neighbors Marty Jones, Lana Jones, Suzy Jones and Timmy Jones downtown. After you say goodbye, you text your spouse:

“Honey, I just ran into the __________ (insert plural of Jones)!”

3 If they had

______ (led, lead)

the horses to water, maybe the horses would have

________ (drunk, drunken, drank).

4 Andrew sent chocolates to Dana and _________________

(me, myself, I).

5 Those cherubic-looking

_______________ (3-year old, 3-year-old) twins walked off with my ice cream!

6 Francine down for a nap four hours ago!

__________ (laid, lay)

7 Which sentence is correct?

One of the students is late.

One percent of the students are chronically late.

8 Is there one space or two after a period?

ANSWERS

1. three: responsable responsible, grammer grammar, mispellings misspellings; 2. Joneses; 3. led, drunk; 4. me; ¬ ¬ ¬

5. 3-year-old; 6. lay; 7. They are both correct! People will see the word “one” and automatically think the verb has to be singular (“is”) in both sentences. But in the second sentence, it’s not the singular number “one”; it’s “one percent.” If there were 400 students, that would be four chronically late students. The better choice there is “are.” 8. Plenty of people still put two spaces because they were taught to do that when people still typed on typewriters, but the convention in books, magazines and newspapers is one. Don’t let your typing habits date you.