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The four sentences in Group A share a special feature. If you correctly identify that common feature, you will find that one of the sentences in Group B also has that same feature. What is the feature? What sentence in Group B can be added to Group A?
Group A:
A gold medal is better then a silver medal.
Jack had to lay down after carrying the pail of water.
She wrote her letter on pink stationary.
The price of the stock will very from day to day.
Group B:
Bill hit the baseball well.
He and I went to the football game.
The barren hill was devoid of trees.
The high-pitched sound produced a strange affect on the dog.
Victoria was the heroine of the story.
Walter had a minor role in the play.
Group A:
A gold medal is better then a silver medal.
Jack had to lay down after carrying the pail of water.
She wrote her letter on pink stationary.
The price of the stock will very from day to day.
Group B:
Bill hit the baseball well.
He and I went to the football game.
The barren hill was devoid of trees.
The high-pitched sound produced a strange affect on the dog.
Victoria was the heroine of the story.
Walter had a minor role in the play.
Answer
Each sentence in Group A contains a misused word ("then" should be "than", "lay" should be "lie", "stationary" should be "stationery", "very" should be "vary"). The fourth sentence in Group B has that characteristic ("affect" should be "effect").Hide Answer Show Answer
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I like this! Once I figured out that the typos were really typos! LOL
Well, this was really a "DUH!" moment for me! I kept focusing how the puzzle writer misspelled several words, and then when I gave up and looked at the answer I find out that was the point of the puzzle! Oh my, silly me!
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