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Updated on: 07 Nov 2022, 09:19
Originally posted by RonTargetTestPrep on 07 Nov 2022, 09:08.
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One thing to be sure you understand about the above, by the way, is that you will never need to decide WHEN or WHETHER to invert one of these helping-verb clauses.
In other words, you'll never face a split that has to be decided on the basis of "invert helping verb & subject, Y/N?" This CAN'T be the basis on which an SC split is decided, because—as indicated in the general principles above—it's a stylistic decision, and standardized exams can't test style.
Your job is to understand that the inverted form exists, and how it works—so that you can correctly IDENTIFY/RECOGNIZE it, and, having spotted it, JUDGE whether it's written correctly.
Knowing when this is most likely (see above remarks about long modifiers) will help your efficiency and accuracy in recognizing inverted verb forms, though that knowledge won't really help you judge them more accurately.
Analysis of this specific problem in the following post.
In other words, you'll never face a split that has to be decided on the basis of "invert helping verb & subject, Y/N?" This CAN'T be the basis on which an SC split is decided, because—as indicated in the general principles above—it's a stylistic decision, and standardized exams can't test style.
Your job is to understand that the inverted form exists, and how it works—so that you can correctly IDENTIFY/RECOGNIZE it, and, having spotted it, JUDGE whether it's written correctly.
Knowing when this is most likely (see above remarks about long modifiers) will help your efficiency and accuracy in recognizing inverted verb forms, though that knowledge won't really help you judge them more accurately.
Analysis of this specific problem in the following post.
07 Nov 2022, 09:19
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Now... About this specific sentence here.
We have this:
the taste of local collectors has played at least as large a part in the formation of its collections as has/have the judgments of the art historian
The second part here is definitely inverted—a conclusion that can be reached quickly, from the observation that the helping verb ("has/have") immediately follows the parallel connector, appearing at the beginning of the second blank in "as ____ as ____".
In other words, the second parallel structure STARTS with the helping verb "has/have". Such a construction is only possible if the helping verb and subject of the compound verb are inverted (...how else could a construction START with a helping verb?).
This means the subject is the FOLLOWING NOUN. That's judgments (plural), so we need the plural verb "have" here. Not "has".
In summary, these structures are analogous:
at least as large a part ... AS have the judgments of the art historian
grandmother collects fewer souvenirs ... THAN does my grandfather, who xxxxxxxxxxx
We have this:
the taste of local collectors has played at least as large a part in the formation of its collections as has/have the judgments of the art historian
The second part here is definitely inverted—a conclusion that can be reached quickly, from the observation that the helping verb ("has/have") immediately follows the parallel connector, appearing at the beginning of the second blank in "as ____ as ____".
In other words, the second parallel structure STARTS with the helping verb "has/have". Such a construction is only possible if the helping verb and subject of the compound verb are inverted (...how else could a construction START with a helping verb?).
This means the subject is the FOLLOWING NOUN. That's judgments (plural), so we need the plural verb "have" here. Not "has".
In summary, these structures are analogous:
at least as large a part ... AS have the judgments of the art historian
grandmother collects fewer souvenirs ... THAN does my grandfather, who xxxxxxxxxxx
07 Nov 2022, 09:31
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RonTargetTestPrep , all the three posts were such an amazing explanation. Thankyou for clarifying the doubt and helping me with the structure of sentences, which will have the construction of inverted verbs
