RE: Need some grammar help

[Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

The wording and punctuation can be debated (possibly ad nauseam), but the fact remains that the correct answer is A. 
 
Even if you interpret the question as you say you did ("what is the protocol that does the transport of the little packets?"), the answer is TCP. The IP part of the Internet Protocol Suite is the protocol for the Internet Layer, which deals with addressing hosts and *routing* datagrams from host to host so that they ultimately get delivered from source host to target host. TCP, on the other hand, is the protocol for the Transport Layer, which is specifically involved with moving the datagrams from host to host. IP establishes each host-to-host hop to use, and TCP does the transport between those pairs of hosts. 
 
If I had any issue with the instructor's question, it would be on the basis that neither protocol can do the job without the other so that the best answer would be "TCP/IP". But since the focus is specifically on the transport, the only correct choice between the two options is TCP.
 
-Fred Ridder 
 
> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:48:43 -0500
> Subject: Need some grammar help
> From: cornwell -dot- ab -at- gmail -dot- com
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I am trying to explain to my instructor why I believe the following question
> is worded incorrectly, given the "correct" answer. This is from an online
> test.
> 
> Question:
> 
> Your picture will be divided into little packets of data for transport
> across the internet using ___________.
> 
> 
> Answers:
> 
> 
> A. TCP
> 
> B. IP
> 
> C. Blah
> 
> D. Blahblah
> 
> 
> I answered B. IP because there were no commas offsetting the phrase "across
> the internet" and I read the question as asking what is the protocol that
> does the transport of the little packets?
> 
> 
> The "correct" answer is TCP. I'm telling the instructor that if the intent
> had been to ask what is the protocol for dividing the picture into little
> packets of data, there should have been a comma before and a comma after the
> phrase "for transport across the internet" : "Your picture will be divided
> into little packets of data, for transport across the internet, using
> ___________."
> 
> 
> This is no biggie, but, I am pretty sick of poorly written, syntactically
> deficient, and grammatically gory tests and handouts. Plus, I drank a lot
> of coffee and will be up late, so I might as well nag.
> 
> 
> I can't remember the correct name of the phrase represented by "for
> transport across the internet". I'd like to lay that on the instructor as
> well. Anyone?
> 
> 
> Thank you, carry on with your weekends!
> 
> 
> Anne C.
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