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The surest way to achievement in class tests and final exams ______________ perseverance.
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27 Dec 2021, 07:15
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IMO the sentence would read better as:
The surest way to *achieve success* (or ensure success) in class tests and final exams <is> perseverance.
Using the word achievement in the middle of the sentence leaves it hanging …. (much like this sentence! 😬)
While you can’t aim to *achieve* class tests, you can aim to perform, score well, achieve full marks, succeed in passing, etc etc. in said tests. Hope this helps!
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The surest way to *achieve success* (or ensure success) in class tests and final exams <is> perseverance.
Using the word achievement in the middle of the sentence leaves it hanging …. (much like this sentence! 😬)
While you can’t aim to *achieve* class tests, you can aim to perform, score well, achieve full marks, succeed in passing, etc etc. in said tests. Hope this helps!
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Yes, I agree with the response provided by D33T. I would add that if you are quoting some source you are using to study English grammar, get yourself another source! That is a poorly phrased sentence, to say the least. One useful skill that you can develop when you look at any sentence, though, is to identify a subject and its corresponding verb. By and large, when you see prepositions—words such as in, on, over, and, perhaps the most tested, of—you can cross off any words that follow until you hit a verb. Doing so will expose subject-verb agreement errors. Take the sentence you provided:
The subject is the way, and you should know that it is singular. (Surest is simply modifying way.) Although tests and exams are plural, they are both objects of the preposition in (although a case could be made that on is more fitting). As such, the shell of the sentence is nothing more than
The way to [something] ___ perseverance.
It should be obvious that are would be incorrect. Remember, no matter how convoluted a sentence may appear to be, it still needs to be built from a subject and a verb. The better you can get at identifying those two crucial elements, the better you will get at SC.
Good luck with your studies.
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The subject is the way, and you should know that it is singular. (Surest is simply modifying way.) Although tests and exams are plural, they are both objects of the preposition in (although a case could be made that on is more fitting). As such, the shell of the sentence is nothing more than
The way to [something] ___ perseverance.
It should be obvious that are would be incorrect. Remember, no matter how convoluted a sentence may appear to be, it still needs to be built from a subject and a verb. The better you can get at identifying those two crucial elements, the better you will get at SC.
Good luck with your studies.
- Andrew
