https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:28:08 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-good-at-spotting-grammatical-mistakes#post-2709054 Sun, 12 Mar 2017 12:28:40 +0000 travellingbee 2709054@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@My Only Sunshine: I think maybe not as many people have taken this one yet. Or something like that. If you click on the links for the previous ones, the percentages are more varied. I think I scored better than 60% or something on the previous one. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-good-at-spotting-grammatical-mistakes#post-2709006 Sun, 12 Mar 2017 05:01:56 +0000 My Only Sunshine 2709006@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This was interesting - I used to want to be a copy editor! But I think the scoring is broken. No matter how many tries I took on a question it told me i did better than 99% of people. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-good-at-spotting-grammatical-mistakes#post-2708984 Sat, 11 Mar 2017 23:54:45 +0000 mrbee 2708984@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsSRS: That was my score too! What disturbed me the most is that I would read some of the sentences and just not see any problems at all. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-good-at-spotting-grammatical-mistakes#post-2708966 Sat, 11 Mar 2017 22:15:45 +0000 travellingbee 2708966@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I took 20 tries. One I knew but since it was a phrasing issue, I couldn't figure out what word to touch. So really it should've been 18. These were hard. I was an English major and am a teacher. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-good-at-spotting-grammatical-mistakes#post-2708964 Sat, 11 Mar 2017 22:10:11 +0000 MrsSRS 2708964@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If you just count the ones I got on the first try, I got a 60%...an F 😕 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-good-at-spotting-grammatical-mistakes#post-2708941 Sat, 11 Mar 2017 19:50:49 +0000 tinyperson 2708941@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I hope so, since I'm a copyeditor 😜 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-good-at-spotting-grammatical-mistakes#post-2708936 Sat, 11 Mar 2017 19:35:10 +0000 2littlepumpkins 2708936@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@mrbee: I was sort of trying to go fast because I'm off to run an errand but I'm pretty sure the median score is wrong. No way is that better than 99%..it's worse than everyone on this thread so far, lol!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-good-at-spotting-grammatical-mistakes#post-2708931 Sat, 11 Mar 2017 19:12:07 +0000 Umbreon 2708931@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It took me 20 tries. I was stumped on a few of them! I admit I guessed right on a couple. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-good-at-spotting-grammatical-mistakes#post-2708900 Sat, 11 Mar 2017 18:08:43 +0000 808love 2708900@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A lot of the errors I had- I was like, doh!! Oh yah-right!! I still make a lot of mistakes when I type on the phone vs. on my computer. As an elem. teacher, I tend to overlook a lot of grammatical errors to get to the heart of the message, depending on what aspect I am grading. It has made my grammar considerably more imperfect over the years as my error-alarm has been muted so often. (eta:grammar corrections)</p> <p>[attach=1524/17/omoayj.338x600.IMG_3225.PNG] </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-good-at-spotting-grammatical-mistakes#post-2708898 Sat, 11 Mar 2017 17:43:38 +0000 mrbee 2708898@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I always thought I was decent at copy editing, but this quiz was hard:<br /> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/10/insider/copy-edit-this-quiz-4.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/10/insider/copy-edit-this-quiz-4.html</a></p> <p>When I finished taking the quiz, the webpage said that the median score is zero. Zero!! I did better than that, but overall had a failing grade. How did you do? </p>