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[andrewducker]

Here is an uncommonly difficult test of your grammar skills.

I scored 165/200, which somewhat astounds me. I would have thought it'd be a fair bit lower.

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[rahaeli.livejournal.com]

To be technically accurate, it tests /vocabulary/, not grammar. And it does so very poorly (in that they are comparing different parts of speech, and comparing words that are neither synonyms nor antonyms and asking us to determine one or the other, blah blah)

I should take the test and pull out all of the semantically ambiguous questions. (I should take the test to my Linguistics professor.)

[andrewducker]

You're right, it's far more about what vocab you know or don't. Of course, I got a fair few right by knowing about the roots of words and putting together what the words must mean based on that.

And it admits to being ambiguous, because many of them aren't opposite, but I didn't spot any where the answer could be either way round.