Grammar Pop for Android

I see that other users have identified the problems. Where are the fixes? Seriously.

Thanks Mignon for putting time into creating this fun and educational game.

Unlike some other reviewers, I wasn't expecting fancy graphics and effects, so I wasn't disappointed, and I didn't have any technical issues. I was looking for a decent parts of speech review to recommend for students, and I think this is a decent one. In the upper levels, however, a few words are not correctly classified, especially a few participles classified as verbs. For instance, in the phrase "cooking class," "cooking" is describing the class and is therefore a participle, not a gerund as the game purports.

When I first started the game I enjoyed it and was ready to recommend it to all of my LA students. Fortunately, I continued to play before making the recommendation. I love your podcast, and I find you to be an excellent resource for improving language use. This game, however, has several incorrect answers in it. The most common has to do with the verb; it often has the player label the past participle verb as a participle, but the participle should be a verbal used as an adjective. In addition, there are at least two cases in which the game labels an adverb as a preposition when it has no object.

This is a cheap app that tries to leverage the marketability of Grammar Girl. It's quite a sad attempt at programming. There is little attention to detail in the presentation or animation. The graphics are dirt cheap, like Pac-man for the Atari 2600. They could have been done with Windows Paintbrush. Bonus coins (the furthest the game goes for extra game depth) don't really look like coins and don't rotate about their centers when they appear. Tapping the coins cause them to disappear instantly, with no audio feedback. And whoever chose the fonts and colors for the words and buttons doesn't understand either typography or color combinations. I imagine Mignon Fogarty herself thought up the specs in an hour and picked the lowest bidder on Elance, a team of iOS amateurs in Mumbai, to throw it together in a week. I really expected better.