"You" should be acceptable for 2nd person plural since that is what is used in English today. Same for you/you/your/yours/yourself in the 2nd line. The archaic words above them have been phased out and now the words in parentheses represent correct usage. Typing in "you" when you know that it is the correct answer for 2nd person plural and having nothing come up is a bit confusing and frustrating. Maybe you could create a separate line for archaic forms. If you are addressing a group of people that does not include yourself you would refer to them as "you" or "y'all". "Y'all," though thought of as crude and improper, was actually acceptable not that long ago. More recently than "ye," I think.
You do get points for typing "you", "your", "yours", and "yourself", since they appear in the 2nd person plural row. (If you type "yourself", I quietly give you credit for the "yourselves" cell.) But I feel that it's fun to give additional points for the archaic forms.
It is fun to have the archaic forms included, but that does not mean you should be considered incorrect for 2nd person nominative. That is just odd. Regardless if you get points for 2nd person obj. for typing you. Which doesn't necessarily make me happy. I would rather like to get points for the one I am filling in at that moment. (I wouldn't be opposed to a yellow box).
Please keep the archaic forms and but accept the correct forms for the 2nd person
Please could you also accept "ourself" and "themself", which are valid (if archaic forms)? Interestingly, OED dates these before the more modern 'pluralised' forms.
What about "yous" or "yous guys" in New Jersey and "y'all" in the southern states? In know it's regional, and not proper grammar.
I live in New Jersey, but grew up in New Hampshire. As an outsider I've noticed that many people, especially from the older generation (over 60), often say "yous" for the 2nd person plural. Like, when asking my wife and I where we went, my father-in-law might ask, "Where'd yous go?"; but, he wouldn't use "yous" if just asking about where I went.
"Yous" (or "youse") is very common in the West Midlands as well, around Coventry and Birmingham. I don't know that it's ever found its way into a dictionary though, at least there doesn't seem to be any agreement on how to spell it...
49/52. Pretty content with myself. :) In the same time I'm also surprised that I got so many (English is not my mother tongue). I think I've seen ye, yon and yonder used, but would have never thought of them.
They're still found in a lot of songs: e.g., "O come, all ye faithful", "By yon bonnie banks and by yon bonnie braes", and "Off we go into the wild blue yonder".
I think it has more than enough time, and I am not a native english speaker. I had a minute left to figure out what they were looking for for the 2nd person plural ( didnt come up with it though) after getting all the others.
I got all but "ye" I spend nearly a minute thinking what that could be. Not bad for someone whose native language is not english though :)
I had no idea what obj refl was though, had most of the rest filled in and that one stayed blank for a long while. Thankfully I got a start when I thought, "how else can I refer to myself" once I got that one the rest of the row was easy.
Can't believe I beat 97,8% of the people that took this quiz! :) (or that the average is actually quite low, would have expected it to be above 40 atleast, atm it is at 31..)
Btw I love that this quiz has a table !! It helps with staying focussed ( plus of course you see where you still miss things, but that is not the main reason for me, it feels more organised, so the chaos in my brain gets less in the way and less change to be distracted) yay categories ;)
Please do more quizes with tables :) (and maps with certains quizes are nice too, for the non geogrpahy ones, like I dont know if you could see on the map which countries have elephants, or where they drink the most coffee per capita)
I'm a native English speaker and doing this quiz felt like learning English for the first time, jolly difficult! I got all but the
three least-guessed answers. I perhaps could have read the instructions but I got cocky haha. A very well done to any non-native speakers who did this quiz and got even half of it!
1: having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses
an archaic word
NOTE: In this dictionary the label archaic is affixed to words and senses relatively common in earlier times but infrequently used in present-day English."
Seems like it would fit words like "thou" and "thine" pretty well, and in fact that's exactly how the dictionary has them labeled.
Please keep the archaic forms and but accept the correct forms for the 2nd person
I live in New Jersey, but grew up in New Hampshire. As an outsider I've noticed that many people, especially from the older generation (over 60), often say "yous" for the 2nd person plural. Like, when asking my wife and I where we went, my father-in-law might ask, "Where'd yous go?"; but, he wouldn't use "yous" if just asking about where I went.
I had no idea what obj refl was though, had most of the rest filled in and that one stayed blank for a long while. Thankfully I got a start when I thought, "how else can I refer to myself" once I got that one the rest of the row was easy.
Can't believe I beat 97,8% of the people that took this quiz! :) (or that the average is actually quite low, would have expected it to be above 40 atleast, atm it is at 31..)
Please do more quizes with tables :) (and maps with certains quizes are nice too, for the non geogrpahy ones, like I dont know if you could see on the map which countries have elephants, or where they drink the most coffee per capita)
8/52
three least-guessed answers. I perhaps could have read the instructions but I got cocky haha. A very well done to any non-native speakers who did this quiz and got even half of it!
"archaic, adjective
1: having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses
an archaic word
NOTE: In this dictionary the label archaic is affixed to words and senses relatively common in earlier times but infrequently used in present-day English."
Seems like it would fit words like "thou" and "thine" pretty well, and in fact that's exactly how the dictionary has them labeled.