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Piaget’s research revealed that children can learn to count long before the recognition that a pint of water poured from a small glass into a large one remains the same amount of water.
(A) the recognition that
(B) they can recognize that
(C) they would recognize
(D) they could have the recognition of
(E) having the recognition of
The right answer is
B. This is a pretty straightforward parallelism/comparison question. As with a lot of parallelism/comparison questions on SC, the key to the question is often found in the non-underlined portion. In this case, we see that "children can learn to count before...". Hence, what must come after is another action being performed by the children in the simple present.
A - This is not even another action.
OUTB - Two actions being compared, both in simple present (
can learn vs can recognize).
CORRECTC & D - "Would, could" are in the conditional tense, and make this sentence not parallel.
OUTE - This too is not even really another action, "having the recognition" has the word "having" in the gerund form, not the verb.
OUTPretty straightforward, but I see another interesting question from
rbonito in the comments:
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Pretty clear it’s B but the non underlined part “remains the same amount of water” is giving me a headache. Would this be considered correct had that part been underlined?
Well this part is actually perfectly right. A good way to confirm this is to first ID the verb, in this case "remains". The next step is to ask yourself, what "remains the same...". In this case, its "a pint of water", which is a singular noun idea, and therefore lines up just fine with "remains", since that is the thing that remains the same amount.
- Matoo