Re: Need some grammar help

[Richard Mateosian <xrmxrm -at- gmail -dot- com>]

So frustrating. My daughter is in high school. She encounters poorly
written questions all the time, and they often throw her for a loop.
She expresses herself carefully, and when others do not, she assumes
they mean what they say rather than what they clearly meant to say.
...RM


On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 8:48 PM, A.B. Cornwell <cornwell -dot- ab -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

>
>  Your picture will be divided into little packets of data for transport
> across the internet using ___________.

> A. TCP
>
> B. IP

> The "correct" answer is TCP.  I'm telling the instructor that if the intent
> had been to ask what is the protocol for dividing the picture into little
> packets of data, there should have been a comma before and a comma after the
> phrase "for transport across the internet" : "
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Richard Mateosian <xrm -at- pacbell -dot- net>
Berkeley, California
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