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Rupertbear
Member

09-19-2003

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 3:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't know if anyone ever saw the animated gif that was making the rounds a year or so ago about this title but it was quite amusing.

It was a panda, eating, shooting a gun & leaving but of course the real essence of the title was when punctuation isn't used or is used incorrectly.

Here's a link to a little quiz on that very self-same topic...

http://eatsshootsandleaves.com/ESLquiz.html

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 3:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I am 50% stickler!

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 3:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
67%. I got caught on those dang commas...and who knew that 4 yards owned the worth!

Maris
Member

03-28-2002

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 3:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
83% and why do I feel a failure?

Tishala
Member

08-01-2000

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 3:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I am 100% stickler. It's called teaching college kids how to write.

Jan
Member

08-01-2000

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 3:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sigh Maris. Probably because you figured you would get 100% just like I did. At least you got in the 80's!

Eliz87
Member

07-30-2001

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 3:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm a 100% stickler!

Lobster
Member

04-13-2001

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 3:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
83% for me

Whoami
Member

08-03-2001

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 3:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
50% here.

Hippyt
Member

09-10-2001

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 3:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
83% I thought the baby was one baby with bibs.

Tess
Member

04-13-2001

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 4:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
stickler
It's called -- Grandma was an English professor at Oregon State.

Llkoolaid
Member

08-01-2001

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 4:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I got 92%, I did children's wrong, I made it childrens'. Stupid me, of course children is plural so therefore the s would show owership which would place the apostrope before the s. Tish, I need lessons from you.

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 4:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
75% STICKLER!

Tishala
Member

08-01-2000

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 4:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ll, I'd go to Tess if I were you. I admit to struggling often with restrictive and non-restrictive adjectives. In fact, Tess, you wanna grade these papers for me? They're giving me a headache.

Tess
Member

04-13-2001

Sunday, April 25, 2004 - 9:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
uh, nope!

Bandit
Member

07-29-2001

Monday, April 26, 2004 - 8:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yea! 100%, for, me, too!

Kimmo
Member

05-02-2003

Monday, April 26, 2004 - 12:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
100% :-)

Lkunkel
Member

10-29-2003

Monday, April 26, 2004 - 1:00 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
100% for me, too. I am planning to buy a copy of the American version of the book.

Carrie92
Member

09-15-2003

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 4:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
92% stickler. Didn't think I'd score so high, but that was pretty easy.

Kimmo
Member

05-02-2003

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 5:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It was pretty easy. But then, my manager often makes me take out commas in my writing that this quiz told me were correct. I still think I'm correct, but then I can see why she would want them removed.

There were at least 4 instances where I thought, "She would tell me to not put in a comma here" in this quiz. (Maybe I should send her the link! :-))