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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

"almost impossible question"

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00my teacher recently asked us a series of almost impossible questions and i was hoping you guys could help me out.02br
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0 The students sigh a heavy sigh.02br
00 A fly cannot fly a plane.02br
00 A spy lives two lives.02br
00 The photographer prints the prints every morning.02br
00 The thief pockets the money in his pockets.02br
00 The policemen ticket the cars with red tickets.02br
00 The drivers stop the bus at every bus stop.02br
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01cite10CalifJim12cite10The students sigh a heavy sigh.12br
10A fly cannot fly a plane.12br
10A spy lives two lives.12br
10The photographer prints the prints every morning.12br
10The thief pockets the money in his pockets.12br
10The policemen ticket the cars with red tickets.1
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0 using the 01u00same exact word02u02br
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00 1. dream01b00t02b00 - dream02br
00 2. trouble trouble01b00s02b02br
00 3. li01b00v02b00e - li01b00f02b00e02br
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01cite10CalifJim12cite10using the 11u10same exact word12u12br
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101. dream11b10t12b10 - dream12br
102. trouble trouble11b10s12b12br
103. li11b10v12b10e - li11b10f12b10e12br
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0Hey guys thanks for all the input and help.02br
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00Have a good weekend.0-
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0 You just have to find a word that performs as verb and object. It is simple. 0-
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01cite10CalifJim12cite10The passives will be intuitively obvious to the casual observer!12br
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10Jim, did we have the same linear algebra textbook? That line was famous at RPI.0-
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0 No, Barbara, I don't think so! I'm told that the phrase originated with the French mathematician Legendre, but I have no proof of it.02br
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00 One of the translators of his works into English is said to have remarked, "Whenever I came across 01i00As is intuitively obvious to the casual observer02i00, followed by an equation, I knew it would be
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0I know this is completely hijacking the thread, and I apologize, but there is a textbook that uses that line quite often. At its worst, it even says "It should be intuitively obvious to 01i00even the most 02i00casual observer." And then it would say things like "The proof of this is obvious, and is left to the reader as an exercise." At the final exam, in one of the funni
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5000 What's a little hijacking (in moderation) between friends?010id1
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