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Snaps' TRIPE Question 9
The Snapsinski Test of Responsiveness, Intelligence, Perceptivity and Elucidation (more commonly known as Snaps' TRIPE) is used to examine a person's excogitations of insensate disquisitions, inter alia (ie. a person's thoughts about senseless babble, among other things). Question 9 of Snaps' TRIPE is shown below.
"Question 9: Sort the following list of 16 words into four groups, with four words in each group. Clearly explain why you decided to group the words in such a way. The words are:
anvil, care, cream, crime, elect, entry, hall, lung, mash, pelt, quash, scene, trail, wept, wine, word"
Of the many hundreds of thousands of people who have attempted to understand Snaps' TRIPE only one person, Mr. Richard Shunary, received full marks on this question. He sorted the words into the following groups.
Group 1: entry, mash, quash, wept
Group 2: anvil, crime, scene, trail
Group 3: hall, lung, pelt, wine
Group 4: care, cream, elect, word
Can you explain why he grouped the words in this way?
"Question 9: Sort the following list of 16 words into four groups, with four words in each group. Clearly explain why you decided to group the words in such a way. The words are:
anvil, care, cream, crime, elect, entry, hall, lung, mash, pelt, quash, scene, trail, wept, wine, word"
Of the many hundreds of thousands of people who have attempted to understand Snaps' TRIPE only one person, Mr. Richard Shunary, received full marks on this question. He sorted the words into the following groups.
Group 1: entry, mash, quash, wept
Group 2: anvil, crime, scene, trail
Group 3: hall, lung, pelt, wine
Group 4: care, cream, elect, word
Can you explain why he grouped the words in this way?
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The reasons given by Mr. Shunary for these groupings were:Group 1: words that can have an "s" added only to the beginning of the word to form a new word (eg. "wept" becomes "swept", but there is no such word as "wepts").
Group 2: words that can have an "s" added only to the end of the word to pluralize it, but adding an "s" at the beginning does not form a new word (eg. "trail" becomes "trails", but there is no such word as "strail").
Group 3: words that can have an "s" added to the beginning and end of the word, but not both at the same time (eg. "wine" becomes "swine" and "wines", but there is no such word as "swines").
Group 4: words that can have an "s" added to both the beginning and end of the word at the same time to form a new word (eg. "word" becomes "swords").
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