Chris Maslanka Solutions

Shooting his family dead, is natural English order.

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1 Similarly Billy set the hay alight and We found the door ajar. Dead, alight, ajar refer to states. Where the object is long we might shift them earlier; we might prefer She shot dead the man wearing the impossibly large sombrero he'd brought back from a holiday in Tijuana. Judgement and feel come into it. Reticent already means silent. Pedanticus prefers

tett a tett as do Germans and Dutch folk, but not Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries. I foresee barbed letters heading their way!

2 Andy made a quadratic from these equations and solved that. Candy, by contrast, wrote (p - q)² = p² + q² - 2pq = (p + q)² - 4pq. This equals 4