Answers to Practice Exercises: Waist and Waste
(a) "At a cost of $23.4 million, the toilet designed for NASA's space shuttles may seem a ludicrous waste of money."
(Rose George, The Big Necessity. Metropolitan, 2008)
(b) "Beatrice moved up close to me. She put her arm around my waist and took my left hand as if we were going to waltz."
(Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name. Random House, 1974)
Glossary of Usage: Index of Commonly Confused Words
(a) "At a cost of $23.4 million, the toilet designed for NASA's space shuttles may seem a ludicrous waste of money."
(Rose George, The Big Necessity. Metropolitan, 2008)
(b) "Beatrice moved up close to me. She put her arm around my waist and took my left hand as if we were going to waltz."
(Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name. Random House, 1974)
Glossary of Usage: Index of Commonly Confused Words
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