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.
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complimentary : insulting
:: unusual : __________
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baby : nursery :: corpse
: _________
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infinite : infinitesimal
:: obvious : _________
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use : expend :: match : ________
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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.
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A1 a)
adjective prepositional phrase b) adverb prepositional phrase
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A2 a)
adjective prepositional phrase b) adverb prepositional phrase
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A3 a)
adjective prepositional phrase b) adverb prepositional phrase
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A4 a)
adjective prepositional phrase b) adverb prepositional phrase
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A5 a)
adjective prepositional phrase b) adverb prepositional phrase
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Our platypus has been running behind
schedule until now. a) adjective prepositional phrase
b) adverb prepositional phrase c) not a prepositional phrase
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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
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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
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Some of the disagreements between
ducks are beside the point. a) adjective prepositional
phrase b) adverb prepositional phrase c) not a prepositional
phrase
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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.