Me Fail English? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Olivia

Nouns can be found everywhere, since most words fit into the definition of a noun: a person, place, thing or idea. Nouns are divided into two major categories: proper nouns and common nouns. Proper nouns always begin with a capital letter, given that they refer to specific people or places, such as Mexico, John, Christmas, or Eiffel Tower. Common nouns describe everyday objects or professions, like "cap", "computer", "teacher" or "school".

Answer: Leaf/leafs

There are several different ways of making a noun plural. The first, and most obvious, is to simply add an "s" at the end of the words, like in the case of "notebook/notebooks", or "flag/flags". You can also add "-es" to words like "brush" or "church", to form "brushes" and "churches". In the case of nouns that end with the letter "o", they can either only need an "s" (like in the case of "hippo" (it would be "hippos") or an ending of "es", like "tomato" (which would turn into "tomatoes").

When a noun ends with an "f", such as the words "leaf" and "wolf", the "f" is replaced with "-ves", so they would read "leaves" and "wolves". Other similar examples include "knife" (which would turn into "knives" and "life" (which would become "lives").

Answer: Put the apostrophe after the "s"

To indicate possession of an object or thing, the right thing to do is to put an apostrophe followed by an "s". For example, "the school's books". However, if the word is a plural, adding an extra "s" would be grammatically incorrect, and instead, an apostrophe should be added at the end of the word.

For example, to say that food belongs to multiple cats, you could write: "the cats' food". If you were referring to a single cat, then the sentence would read "the cat's food". It's not that confusing, is it?

Answer: You're

This seems to be one of the most common confusions in the English language, but it's not that complicated! Apostrophes are often used to write more simplified versions of two words, such as "could not/couldn't", "were not/weren't" and "have not/haven't". Usually, when letters you would normally see in a word are missing, an apostrophe is placed there instead.

"You're" is the correct answer, since the apostrophe divides the words "you" and "are", and represents them in a shortened version.

Answer: Schedule

Several words in English are commonly confused or misspelled for several reasons, like the sound of the word or letter order. You might get a schedule at school to tell you at what time each class starts, but you must consider that it's pronounced differently, hence the confusion. Words such as "receive" or "believe" (notice the different order of the letters "e" and "i") are also commonly misspelled.

Answer: Subject and predicate

All sentences are formed by a subject and a predicate. The subject describes the person or object that the sentence will discuss, and the predicate gives the action or the verb. For example, in a sentence that says "The bicycle is blue", "the bicycle" is the subject and "is blue" represents the predicate.

Answer: A word formed from two different words

A compound word is the combination of two different words to form a new one with a different meaning. You usually make a compound word by simply joining both words without using a space, such as "soft" and "ball", which form "softball", or "book" and "shelf", which form "bookshelf".

Answer: Synonyms have the same meaning, antonyms have a different meaning

Synonyms are words that have the same meaning as other words. For example, words like "yell" and "shout" are synonyms because they mean the same thing. On the other hand, antonyms are words that mean the opposite from one another. Examples of this would include "take" and "give", or "clean" and "dirty".

Answer: Homophone

The prefix "homo-" indicates a likeness of some kind, but the definition of those three terms varies. A homophone is a term for two words that sound alike, but are spelled differently and have different meanings, such as "right" and "write", or "mail" and "male". Homonyms are words that are spelled the same way but mean different things, like "fair", which could either mean something done in a proper way or an exhibition, such as a book fair. Homographs are words that are spelled the same way, but have different meanings and are pronounced differently.

A short example of these types of words is "bow", since it could either be a ribbon or a word for someone bending down, depending on its pronunciation.

Answer: Doubt/out

Rhyme is normally used at the final syllable of a word, which is also the last of the line in a poem. For example, "doubt" and "out" have the same end sound, which is why they rhyme. Easy examples of rhyme are "cat" and "rat", or "play" and "day".