Thursday, 3/18/10 - Tomorrow's Test: Spelling, Vocabulary, Prepositional Phrases, ASOT
 "Is the answer to this question no?"
Warm Up 3/18/10. Copy. Could be spelling or vocabulary.
  1. complimentary : insulting :: unusual : __________
  2. baby : nursery :: corpse : _________
  3. infinite : infinitesimal :: obvious : _________
  4. use : expend :: match : ________
  5. The aromas _______(ing) from Grandma's kitchen were tantalizing.
IRW p409-410. Click in what you chose (/6), while I check the marginalia (/5).

Pink Sheet: Prepositional Phrases VI. Click while I check Part B (/5).
Exemption = 26/29 + 1 + 5/5 on 128B OR 10/10 +1 + 5/5 on 128B.

  1. A1  a) adjective prepositional phrase  b) adverb prepositional phrase
  2. A2  a) adjective prepositional phrase  b) adverb prepositional phrase
  3. A3  a) adjective prepositional phrase  b) adverb prepositional phrase
  4. A4  a) adjective prepositional phrase  b) adverb prepositional phrase
  5. A5  a) adjective prepositional phrase  b) adverb prepositional phrase
  6. Our platypus has been running behind schedule until now.  a) adjective prepositional phrase  b) adverb prepositional phrase  c) not a prepositional phrase
  7. I am going to skip on my way home from Grandmother's house.   a) adjective prepositional phrase  b) adverb prepositional phrase  c) not a prepositional phrase
  8. I am going to skip on my way home from Grandmother's house.   a) adjective prepositional phrase  b) adverb prepositional phrase  c) not a prepositional phrase
  9. Some of the disagreements between ducks are beside the point.  a) adjective prepositional phrase  b) adverb prepositional phrase  c) not a prepositional phrase
  10. The clown with the evil grin skipped homeward.  a) adjective prepositional phrase  b) adverb prepositional phrase  c) not a prepositional phrase
ASOT.
Paradoxes (Thanks to Wikipedia!)
"If this sentence is true, then Santa Claus exists."
Without necessarily believing that Santa Claus exists, or that the sentence is true, it seems we should agree that if the sentence is true, then Santa Claus exists. But then this means the sentence is true. So Santa Claus does exist. Furthermore we could substitute any claim at all for "Santa Claus exists". This is Curry's paradox.

Exception paradox: if every rule has an exception, then there must be an exception to the rule that every rule has an exception.
Variation: The only rule is that there are no rules.

"Practice moderation in all things. Including moderation."

Paradox of the Court: A law student agrees to pay his teacher after winning his first case. The teacher then sues the student (who has not yet won a case) for payment.

Friendship Paradox
The friendship paradox is the phenomenon first observed by the sociologist Scott L. Feld in 1991 that, for almost everyone, a person's friends have on average more friends than they do – and vice versa.  In spite of its apparently paradoxical nature, the phenomenon is real, and can be explained as a consequence of the general mathematical properties of social network graphs. However, it may also be the cause of a number of social misconceptions.