If your shaky about your knowledge of English grammar you would be pleased to discover that your upcoming test contains all multiple choice questions why would this please you?

Answer 1

If a person's knowledge of English grammar is shaky, they would be especially pleased about a test that contains multiple choice questions. This is due to the fact that multiple choice tests drastically increase one's odds of getting the answer correct.

Answer 2

You should be pleased because multiple choice questions don't require you to actually write anything--whereas if you have to answer discussion questions, your grammar is called to the forefront. If the questions are about English grammar, you should be pleased because you'll have multiple choices, one of which has to be correct.

Answer 3

First, let's rewrite the question correctly:

'If you're shaky about your knowledge of English grammar, you will be pleased to discover that your upcoming test contains all multiple-choice questions. Why should this please you?'

Now let's look at the corrections:

1. The word 'you're' needs an apostrophe to indicate that a letter is missing (the 'a' of the word 'are' - 'you're' means 'you are').

2. The word 'English' requires an initial capital. It is an adjective relating to a proper noun.

3. A comma after the word 'grammar' improves readability.

4. The clause 'you would be pleased' is in the past conditional tense, but it should agree with the tense of its related clause 'if you're shaky', which is present. 'If you're shaky ... you will be pleased', or 'if you were shaky ... you would be pleased.'

5. The compound adjective 'multiple-choice' is hyphenated.

6. There are two distinct sentences in this question. The first sentence ends at '... multiple-choice questions', which must therefore be followed by a full stop. The second sentence begins with 'Why', which must therefore take an initial capital.

Second, let's think of a possible answer to the question:

Multiple-choice questions offer you a selection of possible answers, and you can be sure that the correct one is included among them. Thus your choice is limited, and your memory may well be jogged if you read the right answer among the others and realise that you do, in fact, know that it is correct. Open questions, on the other hand, give you no clue as to what the correct answer is. There is nothing to jog your memory, and nothing to guide you in the right direction. Your mind might go blank and you might only be able to make a wild guess at the answer.