How Much Of A Grammar Nerd Are You? | ClickHole

1. Check off all of the following that apply to you:

I disregard ransom notes if their punctuation is incorrect.

I give a name to every comma before I place it into a sentence.

I got a tattoo of a comma splice and then had it removed.

My father once split an infinitive, and I did not attend his funeral.

I know that there is only one sentence in the history of written language that requires an exclamation mark.

I optioned the film rights to the MLA Handbook.

I stand on street corners yelling that “disinterested” and “uninterested” are not synonyms.

I have visited and paid my respects to the original Oxford comma in England.

When I type an em dash, I groan audibly.

When I type an en dash, I shiver and coo.

I save transitive verbs for special occasions.

I end every good sentence with 10 periods..........

If the mayor ever uttered the wrong “you’re,” I’d pitch a spear into him.

I have a small tattoo on my wrist that reads “to whom.”

I call parentheses by their proper title: Word Prisons.

I read Playboy for the ellipses.

My nickname in high school was “Participles.”

I don’t know the difference between affect and effect, so I haven’t spoken in 20 years.

I know that grocery store checkout lanes should actually say “10 Items or Tinier.”

I have alienated everyone close to me.

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You’re The Nerdiest Of Grammar Nerds
Wow! You’re the nerdiest of grammar nerds. You carry a hammer so that if you see a sign with incorrect grammar, you can bop it over and over until it is illegible. You can tell whether people are saying “your” or “you’re.” No one likes you.

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You’re A Moderate Grammar Nerd
Looks like you’re just a moderate grammar nerd. You have a poster of the ’95 MLA Dream Team hanging in your apartment and you use gerunds exclusively, but you aren’t enough of a nerd to have gone to jail after viciously beating a man who used a dangling participle.

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You’re No Grammar Nerd
You’re not a grammar nerd at all! In fact, you love grammatical errors. You practically live to splice commas, dangle participles, and misplace modifiers. In the MLA office, there is a poster of you with a sign that says “Dangerous” underneath it. Most of your friends think you never should have been allowed to graduate high school.

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