The three or four readers who in
2014 shared my exasperation with the universal use of “for” (see All
for one – and ‘for’ for all) might find amusing this mock
web quiz at Clickhole intended to reveal whether you are a grammar nerd.
Like all good parody, this quiz is only barely.
I mean, if you can say of yourself, as the author did, “My father once split an infinitive, and I
did not attend his funeral,” you at least know what the word “principle” means.
This article appears in Apr 16-22, 2015.
