You claim to be fluent in English. Can you pass three questions
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What's wrong with each of these sentences? None are trick questions, there is exactly one error with each.
>I've seen less people come around here since the accident.
>I want to perfectly cook this hamburger.
>I put the pile of books back on the shelf where they belong.
*fewer
no idea
*it belongs
>>58025017
Second is that hamburger
>>58024954
>I've seen less people come around here since the accident
I've been seeing less and less people come around here since the accident
>want to perfectly cook this hamburger.
I want to cook this hamburger perfectly
>>58024954
>I put the pile of books back on the shelf where they belong.
I put the pile of books back on the shelf, where they belong
>>58024954
1. fewer, not less
2. word order is a bit off
3. idk, a missing comma? also feels like there should be a "to" somewhere
>>58024954
>What's wrong with each of these sentences? None are trick questions, there is exactly one error with each.
>>I've seen less people come around here since the accident.
-around? no idea desu
>>I want to perfectly cook this hamburger.
I want to cook this burger perfectly
>>I put the pile of books back on the shelf where they belong.
shelf they belong to?
>>58024954
I've seen fewer people come around here since the accident.
I want to cook this hamburger perfectly.
I put the pile of books back where it belongs.
>>58025089
I just noticed how bad I fucked up. Eh, my English is still better than your German.
>>58024954
fewer
cook to perfection
it belongs
prove me why the second sentence is incorrect
>>58024954
coming
cook perfectly
that they belong
r8
oh man i wish i was fluent in english
>>58024954
Britain pls help.
>>58025239
It's not really, it's only incorrect by rules no one uses anymore.
>>58025243
Sorry, Pierre. You only got #2 correct.
>>58025239
english has a strict word order
>>58025199
> Eh, my English is still better than your German.
thats not really nice rebuttal, just admit you are faggot and done
>>58025365
>I want to cook perfectly this hamburger
wow you learn something new every day
>>58024954
>nitpicking le post
Oh please. I've heard native speakers talk, ain't nobody gives a shit about no grammar or commas.
That's right I'mma use some double negatives whenever I feel like it. Whatcha gunna do 'bout it bitch boy?
Peace out.
>>58024954
I be seein no mo people comin here since the aksident
Haha nigga hol up jus cookin this burger
Lmao nigga who needs books
>>58024954
Fewer
Cook perfectly
It belongs
>I've seen less people come around here since the accident.
I've seen fewer people come around here since the accident.
>I want to perfectly cook this hamburger.
I want to cook this hamburger perfectly.
>I put the pile of books back on the shelf where they belong.
I put the pile of books back on the shelf, where they belong.
>>58025450
Tryone/Chad detected, leave the Croatian qties alone.
>cook perfectly
>perfectly cook
these being different makes english a meme
http://www.gameswithwords.org/WhichEnglish/
Alright, post results.
>>58025442
Oh shit, I'm wrong. Thank you, Finland. He was wrong on all of them.
>>58025017
>mfw the only one who answered everything correctly
Checkmate Anglos.
>>58024954
fewer people
wanna cook this hamburger perfectly
back on the shelf where it belongs
>>58024954
"Put" is an irregular verb. So it should be "I pat the pile of books on the shelf where they belong.
Fewer
Cook perfectly
It belongs
>>58026040
Yes
>I want to perfectly cook this hamburger.
Split infinitive - OK in everyday speech, but not in formal writing.
>>58025634
I'm Germanic!
>>58025634
This website is asking for it.
>>58024954
>You claim to be fluent in English. Can you pass three questions from a 7th grade English test?
I'll just try it.
>What's wrong with each of these sentences? None are trick questions, there is exactly one error with each.
>>I've seen less people come around here since the accident.
coming here
>>I want to perfectly cook this hamburger.
I want to cook this hamburger perfectly.
>>I put the pile of books back on the shelf where they belong.
onto
I hope you're all trolling. Those sentences are basic as fuck.
>>58025634
erradicate me from the surface of earth
Whyyy
>>58024954
>come around-coming
>perfectly
>plurality/singulatiry
>>58025365
well then the 2nd it's not wrong, because otherwise using whom instead of who would also be an error.
>>58025634
Nihao, motherfuckers!
Nailed it
>>58026594
i got none of them right
>>58025239
americans don't cook burgers
>>58027320
You disgust me.
>>58026945
>>58027092
bix nood muhfuggas
Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
1. American (Standard)
2. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
3. Canadian
Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
1. Norwegian
2. Swedish
3. English
- See more at: http://www.gameswithwords.org/WhichEnglish/#sthash.FHjTGaCF.dpuf
i.e. whiter than you
>>58027491
>white
>can't even take a screenshot
t. MuhamMAD
>>58027092
>>58026945
>>58025634
>Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
>1. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
>2. Singaporean
>3. South African
I think whenever the computer doesn't know which English dialect you have you get Ebonics.
>Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
>1. Italian
>2. German
>3. Romanian
Should he Swiss German
>>58027670
>I think whenever the computer doesn't know which English dialect you have you get Ebonics.
no there were a lot of grammatically incorrect sentences that were ebonics in there
>>58027670
>>58027757
Ye tho I aint no nigger. how come I be an african-amurican when I didnt do no mistaeks.
>>58027651
wat up nigga ma maine
where we be AT
>Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
>1. Singaporean
>2. American (Standard)
>3. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
>Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
>1. English
>2. Norwegian
>3. Swedish
k
>>58025634
>Welsh
kill me
This made me feel good about myself
>>58027577
Hello I think we might have been separated at birth.
>>58027861
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1I4YjExuz3E
>>58025634
>Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
>1. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
>2. Singaporean
>3. American (Standard)
>Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
>1. Italian
>2. Vietnamese
>3. Spanish
that shit ain't right
>>58028001
Kek must have been all that frantic baaing in the background
>>58028306
>US Black Vernacular / Ebonics
>>58025239
it's a split infinitive
>>58028276
mouhfacker u white i can smell it bTOF maine BNRTOF
>>58028306
hello brother
>>58028306
laughed too early as it seems...
>>58028387
>>58028508
das rite mane
>>58028419
>"though modern English usage guides have dropped the objection to the split infinitive"
>ITT: Americans trigger then laugh at dumb ass Europeans
Feels so fucking good boys
>>58028549
hello brother, death to the infidels
>>58025634
>tfw I'm a second-degree nigger
>>58027092
>>58026945
NIGGERS NIGGERS NIGGERS
>>58025634
>Have you been diagnosed with dyslexia or another language or learning disorder?
>Have you been diagnosed with another language?
Shit guys... I've been diagnosed with French and Spanish. How long do I have to live?
1. American (Standard)
2. Singaporean
3. Australian
native language guesses
1. English
2. Vietnamese
3. Swedish
wew I got Australian because I answered She'll be right on that one question
>>58029063
Until the wall is built
I got 2/3. Gib greencard pls
>second
What is your excuse to follow arbitrary rules and limit your expression to word orders? The sentence is fine and conveys the message.
>>58028306
Basically the same.
Pretty retarded guess.
>>58029387
But I'm white... shit, my family was here before the English
>>58025634
I'm Polish tbqh.
Apparently I'm south asian...
Though I did live by Vietnamese people for a long time... I don't know any Vietnamese.. we spoke more French to eachother than veitnamese
shiiiiiiet, i knew i shouldn't have watched so much The Wire.
>>58029783
>2. Arabic
moor
You all fucked up the pile of books. The issue is "where they belong" should be "where it belongs", it refers to the pile which is singular.
What would you say Lindybeige's accent is? He's from Newcastle, but seems southern to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-tfzvNA0H4
He sounds quite pleasant.
t. kraut in the UK
>>58024954
>I've seen less people come around here since the accident
I been seeing less people coming 'round here since dat accident.
>I want to perfectly cook this hamburger.
I wanna cook dat hamburger to perfection.
>I put the pile of books back on the shelf where they belong.
Dafuq's a book?
t. I'm from the south
What the fuck am I even doing wrong to get the nigger dialect every time? Can someone post all the correct answers?
>>58030408
Being a literal monkey.
>>58030408
You need proper grammar. I assume you fuck your verb tenses up. Go take some basic English lessons.
>>58025634
>I've seen less people come around here since the accident.
This is problematic because it is highly unlikely that less people would've come around since the accident. If anything, more people would have come around, the EMT technicians, the police, media presence, and onlookers in general.
>I want to perfectly cook this hamburger.
To perfectly cook a hamburger is an absurd notion, for there is no such thing as a "perfectly cooked hamburger." de gustibus non disputandum, taste is subjective and we should give up on the idea that one hamburger can be held up as superior to all others.
>I put the pile of books back on the shelf where they belong.
Can books "belong" on a shelf? After all, books are merely proxy for ideas, and ideas are free and property of humanity as a whole.
>>58030483
>I got English as my native language twice
Guess Americans are monkeys too.
>>58025634
I don't know if this is good or bad
>>58030594
put far too much effort into this post 2bh killed the joke
Explain me the first one please. Why should I use few instead of little? Few is only used with countable nouns or what? I'm dumb, sorry :(
>>58025372
It doesn't, no.
>>58030408
Really shitty tensing most likely. what it be, how old is you, the people is angry, we was studying etc
>>58030821
Most English speakers don't even know the difference. Technically fewer should be used when you're talking about quantity.
Tbh, no one would correct you except for those faggots who don't have any friends.
>>58025372
>English has a really strict word order
English word order is pretty much garbage, desu. It's a big geospecific, and many speakers, even native speakers, don't use it like they're "supposed" to.
Pretty much only Oxford knows the proper way to speak.. and even they don't get it right all the time
>>58027370
It's okay it is not your native languages
>>58031096
No, I'm pretty sure I didn't pick any of those.
Here's my last result.
>>58025017
>>58025089
>>58025111
>>58025131
>>58025145
>>58025209
>>58025243
>>58025466
>>58025519
>>58025827
>>58026087
>>58026521
>>58027144
STACK of books, not pile you imbred degenerates
>>58030821
No one really cares, I believe the rule is you use "fewer" when it's countable and "less" when it's a units (apart from time I believe)
>>58031370
Screenshot the answers and compile them so everyone can have a look
>>58031166
And little is used when I'm talking about amount. Little amount of sugar, etc...
Thank you, America :)
>>58024954
Prescriptivist bullshit
t. Descriptivist master race
>>58029783
YO OMAR COMIN
>>58025634
wtf
>>58025634
>Our top three guesses for your English dialect:
>1. English (England)
>2. Scottish (UK)
>3. South African
>Our top three guesses for your native (first) language:
>1. Finnish
>2. English
>3. German
>Finnish
HOW DOES IT KNOW?
>>58031377
>imbred
>>58031377
it's still correct, dumbass
>>58031377
>imbred
>>58032273
Fuck off seaman
>>58026945
>>58027092
BIIIIX NOOOOOOOD!
http://www.gameswithwords.org/VocabQuiz/
>tfw sixth year as a NEET
>didn't even finish high school
>>58029711
>shit, my family was here before the English
then you're red, not white, tonto.
>>58025634
>>58032935
wtf is "UMAMI" ?
>>58033364
It's one of the five basic tastes and thus closest to "protein" on the list. Literally the only reason why I knew about it was because I read about some sauce like an hour ago and the word came up there.
>>58024954
There is literally nothing wrong with saying these things
What did you answer on those 'it was the lion that the monkey hugged' like questions?
>>58033364
savoury mushroomy taste, I saw it on QI
>>58025634
What's up with the Singaporean result? I don't get it, I'm a native speaker with a Midwest dialect
>>58025634
>http://www.gameswithwords.org/WhichEnglish/
dude wtf, there are objectively right or wrong answers there, for 90 percent of the questions.
>>58033541
The monkey was hugging the lion.
I swear, I check all grammatically correct sentences, I avoid all those trap options like he be gone etc but it always gives me Ebonics as dialect and Finnish as native language.
I took the test twice more and this time was careful with the "chicken scared the lion" questions and even considered the subject-verb inversion that happen in subordinate clauses in French and very formal British English and I was also aware of the fact that Brits use "read" to mean "study" or "major in" but
EBONICS or SINGAPOREAN as dialect
FINNISH as native language
ALL THE TIME WHY HOW
>>58032935
>Stratocaster
Didn't know what that one was because I thought it was a brand
For multiquotent I went for the poly-something word assuming they'd mean the same
i'm not a fucking leaf i'm not a fucking leaf i'm not a fucking leaf. i'm not a shitty leaf i'm not a shitty leaf i'm not a shitty leaf. i'm not a goddamn leaf i'm not a goddamn leaf i'm not a goddamn leaf. fuck leave fuck leave fuck leaves
>>58033949
t. Tyrone Ghim
Is English grammar hard for you guys? If so, how different is English from your native language?
>>58031377
>imbred
And here we see the tragic effects of centuries of consanguineous intercourse in Britain
>>58025634
On one hand, I did well on the quiz. On the other, they called me a nigger and a muslim.
I'm torn.
ITT: colored people
>>58034188
>If so, how different is English from your native language?
Imagine Japanese without moonrunes.
>>58034047
DUDE
>>58034295
FUCK off I'd rather be a tranny in portland before I become a socialist LEAF-fucker
>>58034047
Haha leafman
>>58034047
>Philadelphia
>not leaf
>>58025634
>ebonics, singaporean, std. american
What the flying fuck, this algorithm is utter garbage. It thought I was a native English speaker though.
>>58034557
Ebonics is Black American
>>58024954
>around
remove that, sounds retarded
>cook this hamburger perfectly
>stack
>>58034433
philadelphia is the birthplace of america. we seethe with anglo-saxon and african-american blood. nobody would be caught dead with a baguette here
>>58024954
>less
>perfectly cook
>they
Please tell me why
I want to cook perfectly this hamburger
is wrong
It no longer splits the infinitive so why is it wrong?
Why does it have to be
I want to cook this hamburger perfectly
?
>>58031377
nothing wrong with pile
>>58034802
Indeed. Most of my stuff, including books, is in piles, not stacks.
t. messy bachelor
>>58032024
>>58032567
>>58034202
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcB0LNrMFW4
