>  8. Only three words in standard English begin with the
> letters "dw."=20
>     They are all common. Name two of them.

dwindle, dwarf, dweeb
>
>  9. There are fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar.
>     Can you name half of them?

1 comma,
2 apostrophe,
3 period,
4 semicolon,
5 colon,
6 question mark,
7 exclamation point,
8 accent,
9 grave,
10 tilde,
11 parentheses (s/b 2),
12 quotation marks,
13 ellipsis
14 circumflex

> 11. There are seven ways a baseball player can legally reach first
>     base without getting a hit. Taking a base on balls is one way.
>     Name the other six.
>
1) touched by ball outside strike zone
2) any fielder interferes with him in bat box
3) error
4) 3rd strike not caught
5) fair ball touches ump first
6) base on balls
7) hit
are the ways listed in the rules; I think the question's erroneous
requesting 6 not 5.

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