Identify the correct past tense form of the verb "to eat" in the following sente...

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Identify the correct past tense form of the verb "to eat" in the following sentence:

The children _______ all their sandwiches before going to play.

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Americans May Add Five Times More Plastic to the Oceans Than Thought

The United States is using more

plastic than ever, and waste exported for

recycling is often mishandled, according

to a new study.

The United States contribution

to coastal plastic pollution worldwide is

significantly larger than previously

thought, possibly by as much as five

times, according to a study published

Friday. The research, published in Science

Advances, is the sequel to a 2015 paper

by the same authors. Two factors

contributed to the sharp increase:

Americans are using more plastic than

ever and the current study included

pollution generated by United States

exports of plastic waste, while the earlier

one did not.

The United States, which does

not have sufficient infrastructure to

handle its recycling demands at home,

exports about half of its recyclable waste.

Of the total exported, about 88 percent

ends up in countries considered to have

inadequate waste management.

“When you consider how much

of our plastic waste isn’t actually

recyclable because it is low-value,

contaminated or difficult to process, it’s

not surprising that a lot of it ends up

polluting the environment,” said the

study’s lead author, Kara Lavender Law,

research professor of oceanography at

Sea Education Association, in a

statement.

The study estimates that in

2016, the United States contributed

between 1.1 and 2.2 million metric tons of

plastic waste to the oceans through a

combination of littering, dumping and

mismanaged exports. At a minimum,

that’s almost double the total estimated

waste in the team’s previous study. At the

high end, it would be a fivefold increase

over the earlier estimate.

Nicholas Mallos, a senior

director at the Ocean Conservancy and an

author of the study, said the upper

estimate would be equal to a pile of

plastic covering the area of the White

House Lawn and reaching as high as the

Empire State Building.

The ranges are wide partly

because “there’s no real standard for

being able to provide good quality data on

collection and disposal of waste in

general,” said Ted Siegler, a resource

economist at DSM Environmental

Solutions, a consulting firm, and an

author of the study. Mr. Siegler said the

researchers had evaluated waste-disposal

practices in countries around the world

and used their “best professional

judgment” to determine the lowest and

highest amounts of plastic waste likely to

escape into the environment. They settled

on a range of 25 percent to 75 percent.

Tony Walker, an associate

professor at the Dalhousie University

School for Resource and Environmental

Studies in Halifax, Nova Scotia, said that

analyzing waste data can amount to a

“data minefield” because there are no

data standards across municipalities.

Moreover, once plastic waste is shipped

overseas, he said, data is often not

recorded at all.

Nonetheless, Dr. Walker, who

was not involved in the study, said it

could offer a more accurate accounting of

plastic pollution than the previous study,

which likely underestimated the United

States’ contribution. “They’ve put their

best estimate, as accurate as they can be

with this data,” he said, and used ranges,

which underscores that the figures are

estimates.

Of the plastics that go into the

United States recycling system, about 9

percent of the country’s total plastic

waste, there is no guarantee that they’ll

be remade into new consumer goods. New

plastic is so inexpensive to manufacture

that only certain expensive, high-grade

plastics are profitable to recycle within the

United States, which is why roughly half

of the country’s plastic waste was shipped

abroad in 2016, the most recent year for

which data is available.

Since 2016, however, the

recycling landscape has changed. China

and many countries in Southeast Asia

have stopped accepting plastic waste

imports. And lower oil prices have further

reduced the market for recycled plastic.

“What the new study really underscores is

we have to get a handle on source

reduction at home,” Mr. Mallos said. “That

starts with eliminating unnecessary and

problematic single-use plastics.”

From: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/

In the sentence “They've put their best estimate, as accurate as they could be with this data, he said, and used ranges, which underscores that...” (lines 83-86), the underlined verbs are, respectively,

simple present, past continuous.

present perfect, simple present.

present perfect, present continuous.

simple present, present perfect.

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Opportunity Cost

This phenomenon goes by the name of ‘opportunity cost,’ since by not investing in more equipment and a more rigid production flow, the company is forgoing the opportunity to earn increased profits. These costs are every bite as real as the payment of dollars out-of-pocket.

This notion _______ opportunity cost can be reinforced _________a famous saying ______ Benjamin Franklin, no slouch himself _________ operations management. To make the point, however, we must make a brief excursion into logic. One truth of logic is the validity of the so-called contrapositive, which says simply that if the statement “If A, then B” is true, then it is also true that “If not B, then not A.” That is, of every time A occurs B follows, then we can be sure that if B does not occur, then A did not occur as well. Enough logic then, and back to Ben Franklin.

One of his Poor Richard sayings is that “A penny saved is a penny earned.” We have all recognized the truth of that since childhood, but I assert that by this saying Ben showed us he knows everything about opportunity cost. After all, what is the contrapositive of “A penny not earned is a penny not saved (i.e., a penny sent). All we are saying by this notion of opportunity cost is that “a penny not earned (an opportunity forgone) is a penny spent.” We shall often have occasion to consider opportunity costs, in analyzing and deciding various operations issues.

SCHMENNER, Roger W. Production/Operations Management. 5th Edition. Prentice-Hall, 1993.

Study the following sentence:

“This phenomenon goes by the name of ‘opportunity cost,’ since by not investing in more equipment and a more rigid production flow, the company is forgoing the opportunity to earn increased profits.”

Analyze the sentences bellow:

1. the word ‘investing’ is being used in the sentence as a continuous verb.

2. the tense used in: ‘goes, is the simple present.

3. the word ‘phenomenon’ is the singular form of ‘phenomena’.

4. the words ‘not investing’ is being used in the present continuous tense.

Choose the alternative which presents the correct ones:

Only 2 is correct.

Only 1 and 3 are correct.

Only 1 and 4 are correct.

Only 2 and 3 are correct.

Only 1, 2 and 4 are correct.

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Netflix is trying to prove to the world that it's all grown up

Netflix is trying to persuade Wall Street that it is now all grown up. After squeezing out millions of additional subscribers via its password sharing crackdown and through the introduction of cheaper advertiser-supported plans, the streamer knows that its growth spurts are coming to an end — and now it wants investors to stop obsessing over those pesky membership numbers and instead focus on other metrics.

"In our early days, when we had little revenue or profit, membership growth was a strong indicator of our future potential. But now we're generating very substantial profit and free cash flow. We are also developing new revenue streams like advertising and our extra member feature, so memberships are just one component of our growth", Netflix told shareholders as it reported quarterly earnings.

To that end, Netflix said that it will no longer report quarterly subscriber numbers, starting in 2025. Alas, the metric that Wall Street has forever judged Netflix on — the metric that prompted legacy media companies to burn endless piles of cash in their bids to compete with the streamer — will be retired. The decision to shut off transparency on the metric represents a significant turning point in the streaming revolution. For years, Netflix has prided itself on being extraordinarily transparent. Now it is aiming to hold its cards closer to its chest. And given that streaming giant is the trendsetter in the space, one could expect that other media companies will be inspired by the company's move and also opt to cease reporting such data.

To be fair, what Netflix is saying isn't necessarily off base either. As the company shifts its business model away from subscriptions and toward advertising and other revenue streams, it makes sense to consider how much time users are spending on the service. The more content a user consumes on Netflix, the more likely they are to continue paying for the service, and the more money Netflix then makes from that single subscriber. "We're focused on revenue and operating margin as our primary financial metrics — and engagement (i.e. time spent) as our best proxy for customer satisfaction,” Netflix underscored in its letter to shareholders.

Regardless, less transparency in an already opaque industry is not ideal. The walled garden of streaming already lacks the same detailed viewership data that Nielsen collects on linear television broadcasters. Now, visibility into the streaming world will get even dimmer.

The announcement from Netflix managed to overshadow its otherwise stellar quarter. The company handily beat expectations and added a staggering 9.3 million subscribers, meaning it now boasts nearly 270 million in total. Netflix also beat analyst expectations on both earnings and revenue. However, it wasn't all good news. Netflix forecasted its subscriber growth to be lower in quarter two, chalking it up to “typical seasonality.” That led the stock to slide nearly 5% in after-hours trading.

Whether "typical seasonality” is solely to blame, or whether the streamer is simply starting to hit a ceiling, is hard to tell. Perhaps it is a mix of both. Whatever the cause, the stock sliding on the less-than-ideal outlook is a prime example of why Netflix wants Wall Street to stop focusing on its subscriber numbers. And, in one year's time, investors won't have a choice.

Adapted from: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/19/media/netflix-subscription-numbers/index.html

Choose the sentence in which the word in italics is a regular verb.

“(...) the streamer knows that its growth spurts (...)".

"(...) starting to hit a ceiling, is hard to tell.”

"(...) meaning it now boasts nearly (...)".

"That led the stock to slide nearly 5% in after-hours trading (...)".

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