Internet quizzes have become incredibly popular, both as a "data mining tool" and a method of humble-bragging on social media, so I've jumped on the bandwagon and created a quiz of my own to promote the illustrious Sentence of Dave brand; answer the following question and you'll find out exactly what kind of sentence you are . . . to begin, simply choose the phrase that best describes your character:
1) charming and slightly manipulative risk-taker;
2) neurotic worry wart;
3) aimless and lazy couch potato;
if you chose #1 then you are an incomplete loose periodic sentence with several gerunds and a subjunctive clause . . .
if you chose #2 then you are a run-on with several appositives, a sequence of anaphora, and a smattering of ellipses . . .
and if you chose #3 then you are an awkward fragment with inversions, synecdoche, and a mixed metaphor . . .
please pass this along to your friends so they can determine "the facts about their syntax" and achieve internet fun and enlightenment like you did!
4 comments:
>>rises to his feet, clapping slowly<<
this was inspired by a younger colleague who was taking a quiz in the office to determine what kind of pasta he was.
according to the internet my blues name is Boney Dog Parker.
Not a huge fan of that name so I'm not taking your quiz
Today I had a discussion about aphasia with a girl who's a grad student in speech therapy. I contributed to the conversation with all that I learned from Dave's cartoon. Which was probably factually incorrect.
Is that cartoon still available? It should be a sentence. Or was it?
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