{"id":49742,"date":"2015-03-04T08:11:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T15:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/04\/a-grammar-day-quiz.html"},"modified":"2015-05-12T05:45:11","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T11:45:11","slug":"a-grammar-day-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/04\/a-grammar-day-quiz.html","title":{"rendered":"A Grammar Day Quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not surprisingly, I got a pretty high<\/del> intense score on this one.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.grammarly.com\/blog\/2015\/celebrate-grammar-day-with-this-fun-quiz\/<\/a><\/p>\n

"You may drive your friends and family nuts, but you would make Strunk and White proud. You love enforcing rules just about as much as you love the rules themselves. For you, grammar truly is one of life's greatest joys."<\/i><\/p>\n

I actually didn't go full-bore on some of the questions; I'm mellowing out a bit regarding the evolution of the language, at least when it's a reasonably orderly evolution …<\/p>\n

#NationalGrammarDay<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n<\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not surprisingly, I got a pretty high intense score on this one. http:\/\/www.grammarly.com\/blog\/2015\/celebrate-grammar-day-with-this-fun-quiz\/ "You may drive your friends and family nuts, but you would make Strunk and White proud. You love enforcing rules just about as much as you love the rules themselves. For you, grammar truly is one of life's greatest joys." 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