PQOTD 2/25/10

The questions are based on the following passage:     The ground is full of seeds that cannot rise into seedlings;     the seedlings rob one another of air, light and water, the     strongest robber winning the day, and extinguishing his     competitors. Year after year, the wild animals with which 5   [...]

PQOTD 2/19/10

Choose the word pairing that works best in this sentence: A newborn infant’s _______ skills are not fully _______, for it cannot discern images more than 10 inches away. A. perceptual..stimulated B. visual..developed C. descriptive..ripened D. olfactory..shared E. average..familiar This should not have been terribly difficult, especially if you’ve been doing a lot of practice [...]

PQOTD 2/12/10

The vertices of rectangle ABCD are A(-1,0), B(2,0), C(s, t), and D(-1,4). How long is diagonal AC? A. 2                  B. 3                     C. 4                 D. 5              E. 6 In your algebra classes, you probably got used to the idea that if you see variables (in this case s and t), you need to solve for them [...]

PQOTD 1/29/10

Identify the error, if any, in this sentence. Neither of the artists we have commissionedA to execute the mural areB able to startC work beforeD September. No errorE. As I’ve mentioned in a number of previous PQOTD’s, there are certain pronouns in English that are often thought to be plural, but are actually singular. “Neither” is [...]