Think you’re grammatically correct already?

Take the grammar challenge.

(Find the error or select a choice. Some sentences have more than one error.)

 

1.     Just between you and (I, me, myself), I hate the study of grammer.

 

2.     After putting on a jacket, the room didn’t seem as cold.

 

3.     Madame Curie discovered radium, and later applied her work on radioactivity to medicine.

 

4.     The Fall semester began the day after Labor Day, and the Spring semester began the day after Martin Luther King Day.

 

5.     Zoos large enough to give animals freedom to roam, are becoming popular.

 

6.     The technician tested the batteries; the machines were tested by the engineers.

 

7.     I polished the car’s fenders with a chamois, but it still didn’t shine

 brightly.

 

8.     The bacon was fatty, grease was on the potatos, and the eggs

 were cold.

 

9.     You can insult me if you want, however I suggest you do so

at a distance.

 

10.            Its not going to work, its’ point is too dull.

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