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✓ The principal’s name may actually be correct but since the word is
misspelled and the entire sentence takes different meaning, the answer is
FALSE.

RULE 3. Debatable questions should be connected to a source when they
refer to an opinion or a theory.

x Tides have an effect on men’s moods.

✓ According to most astrologers, tides have an effect on men’s moods.

RULE 4. True-False questions should be stated in a positive way.

x Astronauts don’t have the same duties as cosmonauts.

✓ Astronauts have the same duties as cosmonauts.

RULE 5. Some adjectives are open to multiple interpretations and are often
only clearly understood relative to something else. Thus, questions
containing adjectives such as graceful, rich, important should either:

1. be stated as comparison.
✓ Switzerland is richer in natural resources than Germany.

2. elaborate the adjective in some detail
✓ Switzerland has enough natural resources to sustain its population
for 100 years.

RULE 6. Avoid the use of extreme modifiers or qualifiers. But, a few which can
be measured may be used.

x All sessions of congress are called by the President.

✓ The sum of angles of a triangle is always 180 .
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EXTREME MODIFIERS:

▪ all, always, only, invariably, best, worst, everybody, everyone, none, never,
nobody, no one, absolutely, absolutely not, certainly, certainly not

EXTREME QUALIFIERS

▪ usually, often, some, many, probably, apt to, might, may, frequently,
sometimes, seldom, much, a majority, most, a few, unlikely

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