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[arliss]

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You scored 93% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 87% Advanced, and 61% Expert!
You have an extremely good understanding of beginner, intermediate, and advanced level commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of each of these three levels's questions correct. This is an exceptional score. Remember, these are commonly confused English words, which means most people don't use them properly. You got an extremely respectable score.

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The Commonly Confused Words Test

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[debg.livejournal.com]

Heh. I just took it and posted the results in my own journal.

Pissed that it didn't tell me what it claims I got wrong, though - I was 100% in everything but "expert".

[fufaraw]

I know! I want to know, too.

I fail to see what's so hard about choosing when to use "she and I" vs. "her" and/or "me", but it's evident a lot of people do find it difficult. My fourth grade teacher told me, just take out "and me/I" and say the sentence. "They asked him," makes sense. "They asked he," doesn't. Likewise, "They asked I" doesn't make sense, while "They asked me" does. What's so frippin' hard about that?

Lie/lay/laid/lain/lying is another pair of galoshes, though, and one I tend to get right just out of ... knowing, somehow, by osmosis, maybe.

[debg.livejournal.com]

I never know about lay/lie etc. If i get right, it's pure accident.

But yes, the whole "take out the middle and you find the correct usage in the sentence" deal was how I was taught. It's a humongous bugbear: "He came to dinner with Luicy and I." Um, no, he didn't - he came to dinner with Lucy and me. Take out the middle, so that it reads "he came to dinner with..." and what works? I or me?