The Correct Usage contains over 618 questions on different topics. In addition to measuring your grammatical knowledge, our exclusive test assesses your performance in 6 different areas of grammar, revealing your key cognizant strengths and weaknesses. These areas are: ...
2.To make adjustments; compensate:correcting for the effects of air resistance. adj. 1.Free from error or fault; true or accurate. 2.Conforming to standards; proper:correct behavior. [Middle Englishcorrecten, from Latincorrigere, corrēct-:com-,intensive pref.; seecom-+regere,to rule; see...
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Grammatically Correct: The Essential Guide to Spelling, Style, Usage, Grammar, and PunctuationFilled with self-test exercises and whimsical literary quotations,steers clear of academic stuffiness, focusing instead on practical strategies and intuitive explanations.Stilman Anne...
Thegrammartest was harder than I thought it would be. 6 Goodgrammarhelps you communicate clearly. 5 Learning a new language includes studying itsgrammar. 5 The teacher explained thegrammarpoint very well. 4 When I write stories, I pay a lot of attention togrammar. ...
Editors seek to correct incorrect grammar in manuscripts. 7 Correct Correct actions or answers align with established standards or truth. Correct answers on a test reflect understanding of the material. 4 Incorrect It often implies the presence of errors or mistakes. An incorrect calculation can lead...
“A” is not ungrammatical, but presumably the test authors don’t like it because it uses “wrote” instead of “had written”. From a descriptive standpoint, it’s hard to say that the past perfect is obligatory in this kind of context, but a common prescriptivist idea i...
Even those who pay attention to grammar can allow certain inaccuracies to slip in, particularly in informal communication. One of the most prevalent grammatical errors appears in how we apply phrases such as you and I and you and me. Writers and speakers
There are numerous rules for the proper use of nouns in English grammar and most people don’t remember all of them. The following are 7 tips/secrets to help you use nouns correctly in your paper and other text. To test whether a word is a countable noun or uncountable noun put test ...
Let’s look at an example of this usage: I looked over the report you prepared. I didn’t see any durations of the experiment in the methodology section. There also wasn’t an explanation of how you determined which variables to test. Also, the conclusion left me confused. What does thi...