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01 Oct 2021, 02:00
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Just as once there was the belief, challenged by Galileo Galilei, that the world is flat, now there are widely-accepted hypothesis about the planet that are about to be put into question as quantum physics are developing rapidly and changing the way we understand our world.
A. are widely-accepted hypothesis about the planet that are about to be put into question as quantum physics are developing rapidly and changing
B. is a widely-accepted hypothesis about the planet that is about to be put into question as quantum physics are developing rapidly and changing
C. are widely-accepted hypothesis about the planet that are about to be put into question as quantum physics is rapidly developing and changing
D. is a widely-accepted hypotheses about the planet that is about to be put into question as quantum physics is rapidly developing and changing
E. are widely-accepted hypotheses about the planet that are about to be put into question as quantum physics rapidly develops and changes
A. are widely-accepted hypothesis about the planet that are about to be put into question as quantum physics are developing rapidly and changing
B. is a widely-accepted hypothesis about the planet that is about to be put into question as quantum physics are developing rapidly and changing
C. are widely-accepted hypothesis about the planet that are about to be put into question as quantum physics is rapidly developing and changing
D. is a widely-accepted hypotheses about the planet that is about to be put into question as quantum physics is rapidly developing and changing
E. are widely-accepted hypotheses about the planet that are about to be put into question as quantum physics rapidly develops and changes
03 Oct 2021, 02:00
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
Just as once there was the belief, challenged by Galileo Galilei, that the world is flat, now there are widely-accepted hypothesis about the planet that are about to be put into question as quantum physics are developing rapidly and changing the way we understand our world.
A. are widely-accepted hypothesis about the planet that are about to be put into question as quantum physics are developing rapidly and changing
Incorrect.
This answer choice is grammatically incorrect. The singular subject hypothesis does not agree with the plural verb are. In addition, the singular subject physics does not agree with the plural verb are.
Two Stop Signs help you identify this question as a Subject Verb Agreement question as well as identify this mistake is the following Stop Sign:
- - The verb precedes the subject
- A pseudo-plural singular subject
B. is a widely-accepted hypothesis about the planet that is about to be put into question as quantum physics are developing rapidly and changing
Incorrect.
This answer choice corrects one of the original Subject Verb Agreement mistakes by replacing there are...hypothesis with there is...a...hypothesis.
However, it repeats the second original Subject Verb Agreement mistake. The singular subject physics does not agree with the plural verb are.
What help you identify this question as a Subject Verb Agreement question is following Stop Sign:
- - A pseudo-plural singular subject
Physics is a confusing subject. Although it ends with -s, which makes us think of it as a plural subject, it is, in fact, a singular subject.
C. are widely-accepted hypothesis about the planet that are about to be put into question as quantum physics is rapidly developing and changing
Incorrect.
This answer choice corrects one of the original Subject Verb Agreement mistakes by replacing the plural verb are (after the word physics) with is.
However, it repeats the first original Subject Verb Agreement mistake. The singular subject hypothesis does not agree with the plural verb are.
Hypothesis is a confusing word. It ends with -s, which makes us think of it as a plural subject, but it is, in fact, singular (the plural form of hypothesis is hypotheses).
D. is a widely-accepted hypotheses about the planet that is about to be put into question as quantum physics is rapidly developing and changing
Incorrect.
This answer choice corrects one of the original Subject Verb Agreement mistakes by replacing the plural verb are (after the word physics) with is.
However, it is retains the second original Subject Verb Agreement mistake. The plural subject hypotheses does not agree with the singular verb is.
Hypothesis is a confusing word. It ends with -s, which makes us think of it as a plural subject, but it is, in fact, singular (the plural form of hypothesis is hypotheses).
E. are widely-accepted hypotheses about the planet that are about to be put into question as quantum physics rapidly develops and changes
This answer choice corrects the two grammatical mistakes in the original sentence:
The singular subject hypothesis is replaced with the plural subject hypotheses so that it agrees with the plural verb are.
A second grammatical mistake is that the singular subject physics did not agree with the plural verb are in the original sentence. This is corrected by replacing the are with the singular verb develops.
Two Stop Signs help you identify this question as a Subject Verb Agreement question as well as identify this mistake is the following Stop Sign:
- - The verb precedes the subject
- A pseudo-plural singular subject
- Did you immediately recognize hypothesis/hypotheses and physics as pseudo plural Stop Signs in this Question?
Hypothesis and physics are confusing words. They end with -s, which makes us think of them as a plural subject, but they are, in fact, singular (the plural form of hypothesis is hypotheses; physics has only one form).
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