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On Common Lit
What is wrong with this sentence?
Stock Market
100

This is the root for water.

What is aqu or aqua?

100

14 states voted on Tuesday in what comes before the election in November.

What are primaries?

100

This is something everyone feels, and while it is uncomfortable it helps us grow.

What is confusion?

100

Her and I played basketball in the backyard.

What is her?  It should be she.

100

What is yes or what is no...

People should invest in the stock market before they pay their rent and buy their groceries.

What is no?

200

This root means good or well.

What is bene?

200

Name one of the two front runners now for the democratic nomination for President in November.

Who is Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders?

200

Finish this sentence from Elizabeth Barrett Browning's 43rd Sonnet:

How do I love thee, let me

What is count the ways?

200

Look where punctuation is missing:

Frank feeds Clarence and I drink coffee.

Say the two words where a comma belongs.

What is the comma that belongs between Clarence and and.  (FANBOYS-COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS AND YOU HAVE TO LOVE THEM)

200

What is yes and what is no?


Patience is not necessary when investing in the stock market.

What is no.

300

This root means around and think about when you measure a circle in math. Only say the root, though.

What is circum?

300

This is the more scientific name for the Coronavirus.

What is Covid 19?

300

In order to understand something entirely, it must be viewed from different perspectives. This is the theme from which story?

What is the blind men and the elephant?

300

When referencing a book in a piece of writing the title is in italics or quotes.

What is italics?

300

Over a long period of time, people usually make more money investing in the stock market then putting money into a savings account at a bank.

What is yes or what is no.

What is yes?

400

If I want to illuminate an idea for you, what do I hope will happen.

What is shine or show light on something?

400

This event, (every 10 years), where the number of people who live in the United States is counted matters because it gives money to schools and determines how many political representatives the state gets .

What is the census?

400

When asked how to find a quote that supports a theme in a text, this is the first thing a reader should do.

Refer back to the text.

400

What is missing in this sentence:

Beacon Place is in Waukegan Illinois.

Where is the comma between Waukegan and Illinois?

400

What is yes and what is no?

Is the stock market moody, vulnerable, and sensitive?

What is yes?

500

If a witness is credible, this is what it means.

What is believable?

500

Name one of the candidates still running for the Democratic nomination for President of the United State.

Who is Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, or Elizabeth Warren?

500

Think back to the award-winning short film Kitull.  This is one way you can describe its theme.

What is "Things are not always as they seem" or "Don't judge a book but its cover?"

500
Barb and Anne played tennis with Rosa and I.  

What is wrong with this sentence.

What is the I should be me?

500

If you buy at a low price, what do you want to sell at?

(no yes or no here)

What is sell high!

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