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Do you make these common grammatical mistakes?

English grammar is tricky but some rules are broken more than others. Test yourself to see if you make these 10 common mistakes.

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317 Comments
Alan Conyard
7/10 tricky.
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Mar 21, 2024 3:10AM
Shelley Durocher
john duckett, The use of the Oxford is widely accepted as correct. It is not a U.S. thing. Sometimes, it is a matter of clarity.
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Mar 20, 2024 5:15PM
Shelley Durocher
Jean Fox, Three are used with a quote within a quote, if the inner quote ends the sentence.
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Mar 20, 2024 5:11PM
Steve Bush
Jean Fox, yup. i agree
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Jan 1, 2024 6:04PM
Joy Holbrook
Pat Wells, in Australia, the correct way to indicate conversation is to use a single inverted comma at each end of the sentence. Almost nobody does, but the rule changed here around 35 years ago. When people tell me I’m wrong, I simply point out that on a standard keyboard, the single inverted comma doesn’t require the use of the shift key, whereas the double inverted commas do. PS: I’m a retired medical typist and grammar Nazi.😊
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Dec 9, 2023 4:50PM
Pat Wells
Jean Fox, Three quotations are used when there is a quote within a quote and the secondary quote ends the sentence. "quote,'speaking quote.'"
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Dec 9, 2023 3:15PM
Pat Wells
Good quiz that took some thought on the part of the writer. Number six should read, ". . .workers' hours." Number seven is a BIG mess. It should read: He recalled that she came in yelling, "Who are you?"
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Dec 9, 2023 3:14PM
Jean Fox
No 7 is wrong. You NEVER use 3 quotation marks!
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Oct 24, 2023 7:56PM
gusroy
Number 5 is debatable! Both of the choices are correct!
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Oct 21, 2023 8:42AM
billyboy915
There is nothing wrong about using the Oxford comma in question #5. In fact, it is often preferable for clarity.
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Oct 8, 2023 7:11PM
billyboy915
Bobbie Mosimann, It's a quote within a quote.
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Oct 8, 2023 7:06PM
Elma Morgan
Bobbie Mosimann, I had issues with that one too
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Jul 21, 2023 11:20PM
cdowdy aks
10/10…Some tricky punctuation marks!🎈
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Jul 16, 2023 8:46PM
Alan Conyard
7/10. Very tricky, some of the punctuation.
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Jul 15, 2023 3:58PM
Greg Feitl
Richard D. Boyle, it specifically is a single quotation mark, followed by a double quotation mark, which appears as a triple quotation mark.
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May 15, 2023 1:47PM

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