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02 Jul 2021, 07:30
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Established by several venture capital investors from Silicon Valley in 1999, HDT is one of the first companies that has explored and applied the Internet marketing technology.
A. has explored and applied the Internet marketing technology
B. has explored and applied the Internet marketing technologies
C. have explored and applied the Internet marketing technologies
D. have explored and applied the Internet marketing technology
E. has explored and applied Internet marketing technology
A. has explored and applied the Internet marketing technology
B. has explored and applied the Internet marketing technologies
C. have explored and applied the Internet marketing technologies
D. have explored and applied the Internet marketing technology
E. has explored and applied Internet marketing technology
04 Jul 2021, 04:45
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
Established by several venture capital investors from Silicon Valley in 1999, HDT is one of the first companies that has explored and applied the Internet marketing technology.
A. has explored and applied the Internet marketing technology
This answer choice is grammatically incorrect. The relative clause that has explored and applied the Internet marketing technology describes the noun that appears immediately before it, namely, companies. Since companies is plural, the verb that follows it also needs to be plural. However, has is singular.
What helps us identify this question as a Relative Clause question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign: one of the + plural noun + who/which/that
Whenever you see this Stop Sign, make sure that the following verb is plural.
B. has explored and applied the Internet marketing technologies
This answer choice repeats the original mistake. The relative clause that has explored and applied the Internet marketing technology describes the noun that appears immediately before it, namely, companies. Since companies is plural, the verb that follows it also needs to be plural. However, has is singular.
What helps us identify this question as a Relative Clause question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign: one of the + plural noun + who/which/that
Whenever you see this Stop Sign, make sure that the following verb is plural.
C. have explored and applied the Internet marketing technologies
While this answer choice corrects the original mistake and is grammatically correct, it slightly changes the meaning of the original sentence as a result of changing the singular noun technology to the plural technologies.
D. have explored and applied the Internet marketing technology
This answer choice corrects the original mistake and is grammatically correct; it changes the incorrect has to have in order to agree with the subject companies.
This is a special clause construction. What helps us identify this question as a Relative Clause question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign: one of the + plural noun + who/which/that
Whenever you see this Stop Sign, make sure that the following verb is plural.
E. has explored and applied Internet marketing technology
This answer choice repeats the original mistake. The relative clause that has explored and applied the Internet marketing technology describes the noun that appears immediately before it, namely, companies. Since companies is plural, the verb that follows it also needs to be plural. However, has is singular.
What helps us identify this question as a Relative Clause question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign: one of the + plural noun + who/which/that
Whenever you see this Stop Sign, make sure that the following verb is plural.
In addition, the omission of the article the creates a Parts of Speech mistake because the singular count noun technology requires an article (e.g., a technology, the technology).
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