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8. The young man was surprised to find that his experience as a tutor had been used as the basis for the protagonist in a short story written by a former girlfriend.

A. that his experience as a tutor had been used as the basis for the protagonist in
B. his experience as a tutor having been used as the protagonist in
C. his experience as a tutor had been used as the basis for the protagonist's in
D. his experience as a tutor being used as the basis for the protagonist of
E. that his experience as a tutor had been used as the basis for events in the life of the protagonist in
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Re: The young man was surprised to find [#permalink] New post 13 Sep 2011, 04:57
Why C is worng?
And I didn't get your explanation about
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the is necessary here for a reporting verb "find"
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Sorry, I meant "that", not the, and I've edited my post above. Also, read the section "verb + (that)" in these two links :

http://www.eslbase.com/grammar/reporting-verbs

http://esl.about.com/library/grammar/bl ... gverbs.htm
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Re: The young man was surprised to find [#permalink] New post 13 Sep 2011, 14:30
Is this actually a type of sentence correction? Which SC category does this fits in? I mean Subject-Verb error, or Pronoun Error etc ?
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Re: The young man was surprised to find [#permalink] New post 13 Sep 2011, 19:24
C uses possessive - wrong
D - uses being - wrong
B - uses having been - wrong in this context

Between A & E, A uses wrong style in describing experience as basis for protagonist. Experience cannot be a basis for protagonist. Experience can be used to describe something done by protagonist..

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Re: The young man was surprised to find [#permalink] New post 15 Sep 2011, 03:57
Hey guys ,

can someone guide me where exactly do we use the word 'that' ? are there any rules depicting the use of the word that?

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Re: The young man was surprised to find [#permalink] New post 15 Sep 2011, 04:04
Answer is E.

Usage of that.

That is to be used in
1. restrictive clauses
2. after subjunctive verbs
3. after reporting verbs
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Re: The young man was surprised to find [#permalink] New post 15 Sep 2011, 10:40
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Answer is E.

Usage of that.

That is to be used in
1. restrictive clauses
2. after subjunctive verbs
3. after reporting verbs


Can you please elobrate on the three points mentioned above?
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