MartyTargetTestPrep wrote:
Asad wrote:
Sir,
Is there any error in the following sentence in the
comparison part along with green part (apart from
strike through part)?
Quote:
Like Men and Women, researchers report that mice has the remarkable ability of keeping its temperatures in a narrow range.
The green part is, of course, blatantly incorrect because the plural subject of the relative clause "mice" does not work with the singular verb of the relative clause "has."
The pink part, on the other hand, is not as blatantly incorrect. However, the meaning conveyed by the pink part doesn't really make sense, since the pink part implies that men and women are like researchers in that men and women report
about mice. While that scenario is not entirely impossible, it certainly doesn't match reality.
What would make sense is that researchers report that there is some similarity between men and women and mice, yet the above sentence does not convey that meaning.
Sir, I've a query on the highlighted part.
I think, the researchers did not report about (just) mice, directly; they report the whole clause, which starts with
mice has (has must be have) the remarkable....Here are two example:
Like teachers, students report (to he principal) that the neighbor destroyed the environment of school premise.--> This one make sense.
Like teachers, students report (to he principal) that the dais has been stolen by the local thief.--> This one is something like your
highlighted part. In this ^^ example, "students" don't report about the "the dais"; they report about the whole clause, which is "the dais has been stolen by the local thief".
Am i missing anything, here?
Thanks__