Acknowledgement of my Mad Grammar Skillz!

[eregyrn]

You are a GRAMMAR GOD!


If your mission in life is not already to
preserve the English tongue, it should be.
Congratulations and thank you!


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I wish they'd indicated percentage correct.

And the funny thing is, I take exception to #11 -- I believe with an almost religious fervor that there should be no stigma against splitting infinitives -- joyfully! With ectasy! Because, the rule regarding the split infinitive was concocted in the 19th century, by nerdy white men who decided to impose rules of Latin grammar on a fundamentally Germanic language to which they often only imperfectly apply. As Bill Bryson quoted in his discussion of the controversy in "The Mother Tongue", prohibiting split infinitives in English makes about as much sense as prohibiting split nominatives -- which is to say, it didn't make any sense in the first place in English to define an infinitive as including both the verb and "to", any more than the language defines a noun as including "the".

*grump, grump, grump*