School Help- English
By carolscash
@carolscash (9491)
United States
April 23, 2008 9:08am CST
As some of you know, I homeschool my kids. My oldest is studying the English language and the forms of it. Today we are studying dialect,jargon,and slang language. It asked her to fill in several blanks with words that she would use to match the description of several things. The list was fairly easy except for a couple of them. We are listing this here on mylot to see what others in other parts of the United States or other English speaking countries would say for these.
So here is it:
1. A divided highway with no street lights is a ___________________.
2. Food eaten between meals is ______________________________.
Will you all please give us the answer that you would use to fill in the blanks so that we can see what others would say.
Her answers were 1. road and 2. snack
Thanks ahead of time for your help and I look forward to all of your answers.
4 responses
@Elixiress (3878)
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23 Apr 08
The first one just confused me, since we don't use the word highway here and roads here have lights. The second one I would have said snack for too.
@Elixiress (3878)
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23 Apr 08
I am not quite sure what a highway is, which is why I was having a problem with the question. It is either a motorway or dual carriage way.
@J_Dawgs (217)
• United States
24 Apr 08
ya road and snack were the first ones to pop into my head also. will have to read through to see anyone elses response. only other thing i could think of for the first one is maybe a highway but u said its a divided highway...lol but i would still call it a highway kinda lol or a road...my two cents
~*~J_Dawgs~*~
@carolscash (9491)
• United States
24 Apr 08
Well, I see that great minds think alike as we all came up with the same answers. I am sure that there are other things that you could say but I couldn't come up with anything else.
@KKKBsmom (1092)
• United States
23 Apr 08
well.. number one could be...
freeway
interstate
state highway
and number 2.
only thing I can come up with is snack or maybe a small meal?
@carolscash (9491)
• United States
23 Apr 08
Well, most interstates have lights as well as state highways, but I guess that could be right too.
The second seems to be snack,but if you read the following post it has some good answers for it.
Thanks for helping us with this.
@pismeof (855)
• United States
23 Apr 08
Hey Carol, The only three options that I can think of in reference to your request would be "THRUWAY" for highway and "PICK ME UP" or "TREAT"for the between meal food .
Good luck
@carolscash (9491)
• United States
23 Apr 08
Great answers!! Thanks so much for your help. It is interesting to see what answers people have but you were the first to give an answer to the second one.
