September, 2009

Important tenets vs. important tenants

Which is correct? An important ______ in security is that users should not have privileges they don't need to do their jobs. a. tenet b. tenant

Begging the question

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Acronyms and initialisms — a MDM or an MDM?

Which is correct? ___________ should be portable across all major mobile platforms. a. A MDM product b....       0 Comments     RSS Feed     Email a friend September 10, 2009  1:27 PM Parallel structure in a series Posted by: Margaret Rouse parallel structure, series Is this sentence correct? Customers should use the web as a cost-effective support mechanism to make inquiries about products and services, to place orders, receive technical assistance and to resolve issues. a. yes b. no       0 Comments     RSS Feed     Email a friend September 10, 2009  1:17 PM All right or alright? Posted by: Ivy Wigmore all right or alright, Business writing, CIO, commonly misspelled words, Quiz, spelling Which is correct? I had a lot of success with distance learning, so I felt _______ about missing out on the social aspects of school. a. alright b. all right Answer: b Explanation: Alright is not a word -- which is a little...       0 Comments     RSS Feed     Email a friend September 9, 2009  4:51 PM Does a question mark go inside or outside of quotation marks? Posted by: Ivy Wigmore Business writing, CIO, punctuation, question marks, Quiz, quotation marks, quotation marks and punctuation Which is correct? The system administrator's question was "Will the cost savings of a multi-user environment make up for the difficulty of deploying ____ a. it?" b. it"? Answer:...       0 Comments     RSS Feed     Email a friend September 8, 2009  3:17 PM Plural of request for proposal Posted by: Ivy Wigmore acronyms and initialisms, Business writing, CIO, pluralization, Quiz Which is correct? When you respond to _______________ from multiple companies, you should demonstrate a broad...       1 Comment     RSS Feed     Email a friend September 3, 2009  2:47 PM Colons vs. semicolons Posted by: Ivy Wigmore Business writing, CIO, colons / semicolons, grammar, punctuation, Quiz Follow us on Twitter@tao_of_grammar Which is correct? The CEO cannot _____ he's given so much slack that even his most dismal...       0 Comments     RSS Feed     Email a friend September 2, 2009  8:22 PM Expressing large sums of money Posted by: Ivy Wigmore Business writing, CIO, large sums of money, money, Quiz Which is correct? The ARRA stimulus package included ________ for healthcare IT. a. $20 billion b. $20 billion dollars Continued »       0 Comments     RSS Feed     Email a friend PREV12 About This Blog Is your grammar as good as your code? 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