Answers to Practice Exercises: Cue and Queue
(a) "At lunchtime, they all stood in the queue at the bank, then they all bought a sandwich and came back to eat it at their desks."
(Joe Moran, Queuing for Beginners. Profile, 2007)
(b) "The theater professor looked around the wings. He smiled at a man with blacked-out teeth in patched hat and baggy overalls who was entertaining stagehands with his antics as he waited for his cue to go on."
(Michael Malone, Foolscap, or the Stages of Love.
Little, Brown, 1991)
Glossary of Usage: Index of Commonly Confused Words
200 Homonyms, Homophones, and Homographs
(a) "At lunchtime, they all stood in the queue at the bank, then they all bought a sandwich and came back to eat it at their desks."
(Joe Moran, Queuing for Beginners. Profile, 2007)
(b) "The theater professor looked around the wings. He smiled at a man with blacked-out teeth in patched hat and baggy overalls who was entertaining stagehands with his antics as he waited for his cue to go on."
(Michael Malone, Foolscap, or the Stages of Love.
Little, Brown, 1991)
Glossary of Usage: Index of Commonly Confused Words
200 Homonyms, Homophones, and Homographs
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