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Draden (me) gives you a notebook with 10 sentences, and you must find the odd one out. The sentences are as follows:

  1. Look at that airplane high in the sky.

  2. They walked across the lake.

  3. The tree is on fire!

  4. Is the painting crooked?

  5. To eat an apple pie, you must first bake one.

  6. I am going to start a band; I'll do it tomorrow, then.

  7. He shouted, "Pass the ball to me!".

  8. You are a wonderful person!

  9. You strolled slowly across the garden.

  10. The horse trotted steadily unto the track.

Which sentence is the odd one out?

P.S. Please don't guess or make an answer without a full reason on why you chose that specific sentence.

Alconja
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7

I'll go for

8

Because:

All other sentences contain words with a letter showing up twice in sequence, e.g. "look", "across" and "tree".

Moghwyn
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5

Is it:

5. It's the only sentence with all the vowels (aeiou) in it.

JMP
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5

I have to say

6

because

it's actually two full sentences conjoined by a semicolon, rather than separated by a period. As such, it is the only one with more than one independent clause (number 5 has two phrases, but the first one is subordinate).

Larry Alton Garrett
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4

Perhaps it's

1

because

It's the only one whose contents would have been incomprehensible before "modern times". Let's define that as pre-Victorian. In defense of this answer, it turns out pie has been around for 2500 years(!), and the band reference, even if it is a group of people and not a strip of material, could be understood as early as the 15th century.

and

The poster winked repeatedly while making reference to old timey language, so maybe that was a clue.

and

It even says it in the title, for goodness's sake.

WAF
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  • All I'm gonna say is... WOW! Although this was nowhere near the answer, just WOW! I would never have thought of that if I were trying to solve this riddle... I wish I had your smarts... But nope; All I'm good at is MAKING puzzles, not solving them ;-; – Enqrypted - Deviniled Nov 13 '18 at 19:45
3

Is it

4?

Because

It is the only sentence that is a question mark.

u-ndefined
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2

Possibly

5

because

It's the only sentence where an odd number--specifically, "one"--appears, suggesting a play on the puzzle title, "Odd One Out". 5 also happens to be the first digit of the 5-digit number representing the total number of answers this puzzle will be spammed with if you don't narrow the parameters or provide a clue. *hint hint*

COTO
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1

My guess is that it's

6

because

it is the only sentence written in future tense, the rest are present or past tense.

Just a guess, but worth a shot?

Yessoan
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I feel that it could be

4

because

It is the only sentence that is not saying something directly. It is asking a question, not stating something.

MOBlox
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Another thought I had was that it could be

1

because

It uses American varieties of words (airplane). No others use them.

MOBlox
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I think it's

2

Because

You can't walk across water.

Chris Happy
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The odd one out is

7

because

nobody picked 7 yet it is not gender-neutral.

deep thought
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0

Is it

5

Because

As it is the only statement with an infinitive. I think it might have two of them actually: to-infinitive "To eat" and a zero-infinitive "must (first) bake"

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Is it

2

Because

There is no clear identification who it is referring to; Airplane, They(?), Tree, Painting, Apple pie, I, He, You, You, Horse

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