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Dirty Meg · 09-09-2004, 11:34 PM

The first two questions are stupid. Does it mean the person who is second after you have overtaken them or the person who is second before being overtaken? Unless you specify, either answer could be right.
Of course, you could argue that since the question is phrased in the present tense it refers to the point of overtaking, at which point you are drawing with the person who is in second place. If you were drawing with the person who is about to be in second place then both you and the person whom you are overtaking are first. To be drawing second place you would have to have one person ahead of you. In which case the answer given to the question is right.

[ 09-09-2004, 11:35 PM: Message edited by: Dirty Meg ]

09-09-2004, 11:34 PM	#21
Dirty Meg Baaz Draconian Join Date: May 21, 2004 Location: Here, or there abouts. Age: 79 Posts: 703	The first two questions are stupid. Does it mean the person who is second after you have overtaken them or the person who is second before being overtaken? Unless you specify, either answer could be right. Of course, you could argue that since the question is phrased in the present tense it refers to the point of overtaking, at which point you are drawing with the person who is in second place. If you were drawing with the person who is about to be in second place then both you and the person whom you are overtaking are first. To be drawing second place you would have to have one person ahead of you. In which case the answer given to the question is right. [ 09-09-2004, 11:35 PM: Message edited by: Dirty Meg ] __________________ A stitch in time is worth two in the bush.