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not in the same class
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 6:30 pm
by 999 mum
Hi,
DS was doing some work from "First Aid in English" and had to underline the one not in the same class.
Potato, lemon, maize, cauliflower, spinach
DS chose maize, but the answer is lemon and I can't figure out why. Please help
Re: not in the same class
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 6:32 pm
by DC17C
Lemon is a fruit the rest are vegetables?
Re: not in the same class
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 6:34 pm
by 999 mum
Isn't maize a cereal?
Re: not in the same class
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 6:37 pm
by Reading Mum
Lemon grows on a tree?
Re: not in the same class
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 6:41 pm
by 999 mum
Reading Mum wrote:Lemon grows on a tree?
Thank you, I think I could use that as an explanation that he would accept.
Wow - two answers in under ten minutes thank you.
Re: not in the same class
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 6:51 pm
by DC17C
999 mum wrote:Isn't maize a cereal?
I was thinking maize = sweetcorn I guess
Re: not in the same class
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 7:36 pm
by 999 mum
DC17C wrote:999 mum wrote:Isn't maize a cereal?
I was thinking maize = sweetcorn I guess
Sorry I don't understand
Re: not in the same class
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 7:50 pm
by Sally-Anne
Maize and sweetcorn are one and the same thing, and it is a fascinating plant, put to many uses. (I have a somewhat unhealthily wide knowledge of the topic because of a project that DH worked on last year for a major producer of corn syrup over in the US. Corn syrup is used to sweeten just about everything you eat in the US.)
Just to add to the confusion, the answer to the original question could also be potato - it grows underground whilst all the others grow overground ...
Another one of those ambiguous questions, I'm afraid!
Re: not in the same class
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 7:55 pm
by 999 mum
Thank you, I thought they were totally different.
The things you learn on this forum
Re: not in the same class
Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 8:44 pm
by Sally-Anne
999 mum wrote:Thank you, I thought they were totally different.
I would have done also until a year or two ago! Maize is really amazing stuff (forgive the pun) - Wikipedia link here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize#Commodity" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; DH drove for three hours from Chicago and all he could see were fields upon fields of it, with the occasional town in between.
Off topic, slaps own wrists ...