5 exercises — practise illustrating a general claim with a specific "case in point".
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Which sentence correctly uses "case in point" as a standalone sentence fragment to introduce an illustrating example?
"Case in point: last year's database upgrade took three extra weeks" correctly preserves the standard fixed order "case in point" followed by a colon. Options B, C, and D all scramble the three-word phrase into an ungrammatical order.
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Which sentence correctly uses "a case in point" as a noun phrase within a full sentence?
"...last Tuesday's disk-space alert is a case in point" correctly uses the fixed noun phrase "a case in point" as the complement of "is". Options B, C, and D each substitute or reorder a word in the fixed phrase, breaking it.
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Which sentence correctly distinguishes "case in point" (a specific example chosen to illustrate a just-stated general claim) from "for example" (a neutral introducer that does not itself claim illustrative force)?
"For example, we could use either Redis or Memcached... Case in point: the recommendation engine needed a custom in-memory index..." correctly uses "for example" for a neutral option and "case in point" to specifically illustrate the stated claim about performance-critical services. Options B, C, and D swap or merge the two phrases incoherently.
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Which sentence correctly uses "case in point" to illustrate a claim about flaky tests?
"Case in point, the checkout suite has been ignored by half the team for months..." correctly keeps the three fixed words in standard order, here followed by a comma instead of a colon, which is also an accepted punctuation choice. Options B, C, and D all scramble the internal word order.
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Which sentence correctly uses "a case in point" to describe a specific incident as an illustration of a broader pattern of technical debt?
"...the payment processor integration is a case in point, having been rewritten twice..." correctly uses the fixed noun phrase "a case in point". Options B, C, and D each insert extra words or scramble the fixed phrase's word order.