How well do you actually know English?
I have here some sentences, which I would like you to decide, whether they are (a) grammatical, (b) ungrammatical or (c) you're not sure. Would you be so kind and write just the letters (and if you want or you know exactly why it's grammatical or ungrammatical, you may add and a commentary after the letter).

1. This sentence is ungrammatical.
2. There are different degrees of grammaticalness.
3. There's lots of different possibilities.
4. You used to swim a lot, didn't you?
5. You used to swim a lot, usedn't you?
6. You used to swim a lot, did you not?
7. He may come, mayn't he?
8. He might come, mightn't he?
9. We'd better leave now, shouldn't we?
10. You have a car, haven't you?
11. You have a car, don't you?
12. You've got a car, haven't you?
13. You've got a car, don't you?

I'll give the right answers next time.
Good luck!

Question

How well do you actually know English?
I have here some sentences, which I would like you to decide, whether they are (a) grammatical, (b) ungrammatical or (c) you're not sure. Would you be so kind and write just the letters (and if you want or you know exactly why it's grammatical or ungrammatical, you may add and a commentary after the letter).

1. This sentence is ungrammatical.
2. There are different degrees of grammaticalness.
3. There's lots of different possibilities.
4. You used to swim a lot, didn't you?
5. You used to swim a lot, usedn't you?
6. You used to swim a lot, did you not?
7. He may come, mayn't he?
8. He might come, mightn't he?
9. We'd better leave now, shouldn't we?
10. You have a car, haven't you?
11. You have a car, don't you?
12. You've got a car, haven't you?
13. You've got a car, don't you?

I'll give the right answers next time.
Good luck!

Answer

1. c...Ahh, my first answer is I'm not sure and I speak English as a first language... I thought it was either ingrammatical or not grammatically correct?
2. b. No. Grammaticalness isn't a word in English. I would say "There are different degrees in the field of grammar."
3. a.
4. a. 
5. b. Usedn't isn't a correct contraction, and "used not" makes no sense.
6. a.
7. b. This has the same problem as 5...That doesn't make sense, nor is it a contraction.
8. b. To be closest to what you said, it would probably be "will he not?"
9. c. It doesn't sound right, but, maybe. I think your punctuation is off. "We'd better leave now. Shouldn't we?" or if it must be one sentence, "We'd better leave now, right?" I'm really rolling towards b.
10. b. I don't think you can reuse have like that. "Haven't you a car?" or "You have a car, don't you?" would sound much better.
11. a.
12. a.
13. a.

Haha, this wasn't as easy as I thought. Americans often use slang in their speech so a lot of rules in English are broken. I think I put pretty good answers.

Answer

What a challenge, so here I go:
1-a
2-b  (grammaticalness does not exist - maybe could be just "grammatic"??)
3-b  (there is (there's) a lot of.....)
4-a
5-6-b
7-b  He may come, couldn't he?
8-b He migh come, wouldn't he?
9-b We better leave now, shouldn't we?
10-a
11-a (too, more used when talking)
12-13 - b  (I think should be:  You got a car, haven't you? the correct one, also used:  don't you?
Well, just visited my friend Mr Dictionary for the world grammaticalness which already sounded as non-existing one.
Thanks for the opportunity of checking how are we doing.  Normally, when talking, people loses the right word to be said as when it is written, and this is a shame, really.
Bye bye
Carmen

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