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SAT: Error Identification Question #3 |
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Question:
Youth (a), as the Greeks and other
early civilizations (b) knew, are best spent (c) as a time of
learning and of recreation (d). No error (e)
Choices:
The correct answer is (C). This sentence
suffers from a subject-verb agreement problem. Specifically, the subject of
this sentence is "youth," which is a collective noun. Despite the fact that
many different people may experience youth, the combination of all of them is
singular. And like any singular noun, the verb tense, regardless of add-on
phrases, should be singular also. Here, the correct verb usage for "youth"
would be "is." So the correct answer is C.
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