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if-then" example - ANS ✓If a person is charged with identity theft, then the person will be put on trial Valid Conclusion: If a person has not been on trial then the person has not been charged with identity theft. Invalid conclusion: If a person is put on trial then he has been charged with identity theft. Indeterminable - ANS ✓Insufficient information to decide whether a statement is true or false. Illicit vs elicit - ANS ✓illicit- Forbidden by law, rules, or customs elicit- to draw out a response Using "have" before a verb - ANS ✓in these situation it is proper to use the pasttense of the word such as spoken or run Run vs ran - ANS ✓Run is the correct correct past-tense usage
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"if-then" example - ANS ✓If a person is charged with identity theft, then the person will be put on trial Valid Conclusion: If a person has not been on trial then the person has not been charged with identity theft. Invalid conclusion: If a person is put on trial then he has been charged with identity theft. Indeterminable - ANS ✓Insufficient information to decide whether a statement is true or false. Illicit vs elicit - ANS ✓illicit- Forbidden by law, rules, or customs elicit- to draw out a response Using "have" before a verb - ANS ✓in these situation it is proper to use the past- tense of the word such as spoken or run Run vs ran - ANS ✓Run is the correct correct past-tense usage Ran is the correct present-tense usage
identifying the correct past-tense word - ANS ✓When reading a sentence identify the type of word. if there is a sequence of past-tense words ending in "ing" ensure all past tense words end in "ing" "All" statements - ANS ✓A statement about two groups and often start with the words "all" or "every". These statements tell you everything in the first group is also in the second group but not everything in the second group is in the first group. "All" statement example. - ANS ✓All secret service officers are US government employees. Valid statement: Some Us Government employees are secret service officers Invalid statement: all government employees are secret service officers. "No" statements - ANS ✓These statements indicate that one group is not part of another group. these statements may use the words "no" or "none" and allow you to conclude these groups have no common members. YOU CAN CONCLUDE THAT THE MEMBERS OF EITHER GROUP ARE NOT MEMBERS OF THE OTHER. "no" statement example - ANS ✓no US Senators are under 30 years of age Valid conclusion: No one under the age of 30 is a US senator Invalid Conclusion: Some people under the age of 30 are US Senators. "Some" statements - ANS ✓These statements refer to a group by using terms such as "some" "most" "a few" or another term that indicates a portion of a group. These statements about a portion of a group IMPLY NOTHING ABOUT