not in the same class

[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

[DC17C]

Lemon is a fruit the rest are vegetables?

[999 mum]

Isn't maize a cereal?

[Reading Mum]

Lemon grows on a tree?

[999 mum]

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.

[DC17C]

Isn't maize a cereal?

I was thinking maize = sweetcorn I guess

[999 mum]

Isn't maize a cereal?

I was thinking maize = sweetcorn I guess

Sorry I don't understand

[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!

[999 mum]

Thank you, I thought they were totally different.

The things you learn on this forum

[Sally-Anne]

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 ...