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What gets split in a split infinitive, and why are capital letters called upper case? These English grammar trivia questions and answers cover marks, parts of speech and the rules people argue about, with the source beside each answer.
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Easy English grammar trivia questions and answers
Punctuation marks and Parts of speech are the gentle rounds: the Oxford comma, the two jobs of the apostrophe, helping verbs and the order of adjectives. Odd plurals and old forms asks about children, mongooses and thou.
Good trivia questions about the history of grammar
The history of grammar has the first grammar of English, two schoolbook writers whose rules stuck and the Greek scholar behind the parts of speech. Rules people argue about dates each quarrel: the split infinitive, the preposition at the end, fewer and less, singular they.
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Questions and answers
What are some easy English grammar trivia questions?
Which part of speech are a, an and the? What is the dot over a lowercase i called? What is the object form of who? The answers are articles, a tittle and whom.
What is the Oxford comma?
The comma before the "and" in a list of three or more things, as in France, Italy, and Spain. It is also called the serial comma. Formal writing favors it; journalism usually leaves it out to save space.
Who wrote the first English grammar?
William Bullokar. His Pamphlet for Grammar came out in 1586 and was modeled on a Latin schoolbook by William Lily. For about a century afterward, many grammars of English were still written in Latin.
Is it wrong to split an infinitive?
Writers have split infinitives since the 13th century. Objections began in the 19th century, and recent usage guides have largely dropped them.
How were the answers checked?
Against 49 English Wikipedia articles, each linked beside its question and read on October 9, 2026. Where a rule is disputed, the question asks its history and takes no side.