The commonly confused words test.

I took the test; but, I do not believe that they needed my name, e-mail address, birth date, sexual gender and orientation, etc., etc.... At that point I exited.

(There\'s a box that you should \\"uncheck\\" when you give the gender and birthdate that will get you out of registering with the website)

Well, I just got an email today from OKCupid. Apparently, it\'s linked to some personal sites. That\'s why they asked for the gender and other specifics. I didn\'t see any option to unsubscribe so I wrote to them and told them I didn\'t want any part of this.

I went back to have a look-see. At the end of the quiz, it asks you for optional info - gender and birthdate. If you don\'t click on any of those , you proceed to the results page without a problem. If you click on those items, there is a second bar which appears asking if you\'d like to join - you need to uncheck that box. And, as always, there is the \\"back\\" button on your browser to take you out of places you didn\'t want to be. It\'s the internet, folks. Be careful.

I scored 100% on the first 3 sections and 73% on the Expert section. The whole \\"who/whom\\" thing always throws me.

Well, I thought I only really had trouble with \\"farther/further\\", but apparently there was more than just that :smirk: ...however, I am happy to report that I went on to take another Quiz that I could pass. The Personality Disorder Test found me to be Perfectly Healthy. (whew!) :)

87%,100%,92%,100% but then I read incessantly and rarely watch TV. Unless you write, proofread, or teach for a living, it is not necessary to have a perfect command of English. There have been many illiterate saints.

That was fun...I\'m rated an \\"English Genius\\"...well my college degree in English had better be worth something :)

#35 is just plain wrong. (That explains why I didn\'t get 100% on the quiz, I was wondering....:-) according to the quiz: \\"35. She complains to __________ will listen. a. whoever The correct answer is whomever. Explanation: Whom is always used when it is the object of a preposition. Who is used as a suject and when a pronoun such as I or he could replace who. Here is an easy little trick to differentiate between who and whom: Replace the questionable word with he or him. If you would replace it with he, use who. If you would replace it with him, use whom. Examples: She complains to ___. You would fill in the blank with him, but you couldn\'t use he, so the use whom. ___ complains to him. You will fill in this blank with he, not him, so use who. Who complains to whom? She complains to him. Very simply put: Who = He Whom = Him\\" ***NOT so simple in the example the quiz creator/poster gave, because in the example she gives, the indirect object of the sentence is not merely the pronoun but an entire CLAUSE; and within that clause, the pronoun is the SUBJECT, not the OBJECT, of a verb. The correct construction is: \\"She complains to WHOEVER will listen.\\" Why? Because whoever= he....and of course it is not \\"HIM will listen\\" but \\"*HE* will listen\\" You could say, \\"She will complain to WHOMEVER she can FIND to listen\\". With that construction, WHOMEVER is the object of the verb FIND in the final clause. But in \\"She will complain to WHOEVER will listen\\", WHOEVER is the SUBJECT of that clause. The page the quiz poster links to DOES NOT actually give an example of the construction she gave in her example, and she extrapolated incorrectly when she introduced a different construction than the examples on the linked page. Compare the example from this site: http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/whoever.asp Rule 1. To determine whether to use whoever or whomever, here is the rule: him he = whoever him him = whomever Examples: Give it to whoever/whomever asks for it first. Give it to him. He asks for it first. Therefore, Give it to whoever asks for it first. We will hire whoever/whomever you recommend. We will hire him. You recommend him. him him = whomever We will hire whoever/whomever is most qualified. We will hire him. He is most qualified. him he = whoever ----------------------------- And therefore, in the quiz example, the correct construction is: \\"She will complain to WHOEVER will listen\\"= \\"She will complain to HIM. HE will listen.\\" as an aside-- I wouldn\'t say this question belongs on a commonly confused words test. It\'s not a problem of differentiating between words that appear similar, often homonyms, but about understanding the correct usage of different parts of speech. moral of the story-- be careful what you (think you) learn from the Internet! :-)

darn. I snipped the various multiple choices at the beginning, which should read: a. whoever b. whomever c. Either a or b d. Neither a nor b The correct answer is whomever. Points: a=0, b=1, c=0, d=0 Definitions: who - pron. which person - used subjectively whom - pron. the objective case of who sorry if that confused things...

93%, 93%, 93%, 100%. Before I could check my answers, the cat sat in front of the monitor then I had to go to work. :)

I\'m not sure. I had to leave for work before he finished. :) Or is it Finnished?

100% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 80% Expert

interesting to say the least.

100/100/93/100 I missed the semi-colon/colon option. Oh, well. Mary