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Little typos in Elementary Grammar Tests



 
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Little typos in Elementary Grammar Tests #1 (permalink) Fri Nov 06, 2009 14:55 pm   Little typos in Elementary Grammar Tests
 

These are just silly, silly, minor details.
Anyways, just for the sake of perfection in such a great website, here goes what I've found:

ESL/EFL Test #116 "Weather Test (3)", question 2
"... array of colorsin red, yellow..." -> -> "array of colors in red, yellow..."

ESL/EFL Test #119 "Weather Test (6)", question 6
"collecting foodor building shelter" -> "collecting food or building shelter"

ESL/EFL Test #121 "Real Life: Grocery Stores (1)", question 7
"Fresh and fruits and vegetables are..." -> "Fresh * fruits and vegetables are..."

ESL/EFL Test #125 "Real Life: Accessories and Clothing (2)", question 9
"when the floors are little chilly" -> "when the floors are a little chilly"

ESL/EFL Test #128 "Real Life: Transportation (1)", question 10
"stops along long >,< rail line systems" -> "stops along long * rail line systems"
(This needs native speaker confirmation; to me this punctuation seems odd)

ESL/EFL Test #129 "Real Life: Transportation (2)", question 2
"kinds of transportationS systems" -> "kinds of transportation systems"
ESL/EFL Test #129 "Real Life: Transportation (2)", question 8
"where one man or womEn picks up" -> "where one man or womAn picks up"

ESL/EFL Test #132 "Conversations and Comprehension (3)", question 10
"I don't think I want to see her again for awhile." ->
-> "I don't think I want to see her again awhile/for_a_while." (confirmation here)

ESL/EFL Test #135 "Vocabulary Practice: Tigers (1)", question 2
"they like hunt .........." -> "they like hunting/to_hunt .........."

ESL/EFL Test #136 "Vocabulary Practice: Bees (1)", question 2
"Bees makING a ......... sound when they fly around." -> "Bees makE a ......... sound when they fly around."
ESL/EFL Test #136 "Vocabulary Practice: Bees (1)", question 6
"Bees fly ... in order collect pollen." -> "Bees fly ... in order TO collect pollen."
ESL/EFL Test #136 "Vocabulary Practice: Bees (1)", question 8
"Bees live together in bee .......... These are... (a) hive (b)..." -> "Bees live together in bee .......... These are... (a) hiveS (b)..."
ESL/EFL Test #136 "Vocabulary Practice: Bees (1)", question 10
"When bees are not found in wild,..." -> "When bees are not found in THE wild,..."

ESL/EFL Test #137 "Vocabulary Practice: Halloween (1)"
"the participants>'< must keep their hands..." -> "the participants* must keep their hands..."

ESL/EFL Test #139 "Vocabulary Practice: Tortoises (1)", question 1
"They can live to be 100-yearS-old!" -> "They can live to be 100-year-old/100 years old!"
(Now I'm not sure about this; I just remember once reading an article about the use of hyphens, which mentioned that plurals are mostly forbidden with them; this suggestion really needs native speaker confirmation =o{ )

ESL/EFL Test #140 "Real Life: Types of Buildings (1)", question 9
"building that contains many>,< individual units" -> "building that contains many* individual units"
(Again, this needs native speaker confirmation; to me this punctuation seems odd)

There are 20 "slots" of inexistent/skipped tests that make the numbers on the site list mismatch the numbers of the actual files and automated forum references (as in "ESL/EFL Test #140"). Pretty harmless (until users make references manually from what they see on the list), but still, here are the slots:
2, 14, 18, 19, 24, 25, 42, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 71, 72, 73, 78, 81
(We want more tests! The more the better! =o] )

I started paying real attention from question #116 and on, and many suggestions may be simply senseless (non-native speaker apologies here). So if anyone volunteers to double-check the tests, before one day I do this whole Grammar/Elementary set again... ...feel welcome and invited to contribute to this site's excellence.

Correcting cheers!
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Little typos in Elementary Grammar Tests #2 (permalink) Fri Nov 06, 2009 16:25 pm   Little typos in Elementary Grammar Tests
 

Dear Planta,
Many thanks for your suggestions. I'll make all those changes on Monday.

Best regards,
Slava
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Little typos in Elementary Grammar Tests #3 (permalink) Fri Nov 06, 2009 17:23 pm   Little typos in Elementary Grammar Tests
 

Hello Slava =o)

First, congratulations for your work on this website - as a fellow programmer I can imagine how much of it you've had, for a website this big and this well designed.
I hope you don't mind, then, if I accumulate the suggestions on the first post until Monday (by re-editing it, while I do as many tests as my sanity permits).

Have a nice weekend! Cheers!
Planta
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Little typos in Elementary Grammar Tests #4 (permalink) Fri Nov 06, 2009 18:06 pm   Little typos in Elementary Grammar Tests
 

Dear Planta,
Many thanks for your warm words.
Wish you a good weekend too!
Yours Slava

PS Please a simple note: after 12 hours you cann't edit your own posting (our delete/edit protection).
You can create a new one in this thread.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
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