one more toefl sturucture question

heyiamhere · Post by **heyiamhere** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 11:28 am

Hi,

1.
In gelology, contitnests are defined in terms of the Earth's crustal sturucture and constituent, rather than surface areas.

Answer : constituent --> constituency
My opinion : How come????

Thanks.

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Sorry for the spellimg mistake. I should have double checked it.

Andrew Patterson · Post by **Andrew Patterson** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 12:12 pm

heyiamhere wrote:

In gelology, contitnests are defined in terms of the Earth's crustal sturucture and constituent, rather than survace areas.

Answer : constituent --> constituency
My opinion : How come????

Perhaps you mean:

In geology, continents are defined in terms of the Earth's crustal structure and constituent, rather than surface areas.

Answer: constituent --> constituency

A constituent is one thing that goes into making a mixture. The constituency of a mixture refers to the physical look and texture of a mixture - degree of lumpiness, smoothness, fluffiness, etc; or the things (pl) that go into making the mixture.

Stephen Jones · Post by **Stephen Jones** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 8:03 pm

It would be nice if you could tell us where exactly you are getting these examples from.

And it would only be courteous if you copied them correctly, without obvious spelling mistakes.

JuanTwoThree · Post by **JuanTwoThree** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 8:46 pm

I, for one, am not going to try and help with these toefl things any more because I'm no longer at all sure that we are getting the original questions anyway, spelling aside.