Craig Makes an Offer to Josie by Mail, Because She

question 54

True/False

Craig makes an offer to Josie by mail, because she cannot be reached by telephone. She replies by mail, accepting the offer. Canada Post mislays her reply for several weeks. Craig, who has given up waiting to hear from her, has entered into the contract with someone else after waiting for a reasonable time. Josie can sue Craig for breach of contract.

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Definitions:

Overregularization Errors

Occur in language development when children mistakenly apply standard grammatical rules to irregular cases.

Functional Morphemes

Morphemes that serve a grammatical function rather than conveying concrete semantic content, such as articles, prepositions, conjunctions.

Garden Path Sentence

A sentence that begins in such a way that a reader's most likely interpretation will be incorrect; the reader is led down the "garden path".

Puberty

describes the period in human development during which physical growth and sexual maturation occurs, leading to the capacity for reproduction.