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Soheil1 Posted 14 years ago
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126)despite the fact that forgetting is normal, exactly how we forget and what .............. the process are poorly understood.This calls for more etiologic investigations.

a.underlies b.legitimizes c.standardizes d.accomplishes

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I marked 'd', but the key says something else.I should be quick is I am to object the key.

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To me underlies ( lay hidden in the context) seems to be correct.

— Vsuresh

  • To me underlies ( lay hidden in the context) seems to be correct.
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To me underlies ( lay hidden in the context) seems to be correct.
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soheil1I marked 'd', but the key says something else.
'accomplishes' may seem correct to you, but native speakers think of 'accomplish' as something a person does. In this case it's a matter of "what", not "who". Also, we don't "accomplish a process". 'accomplish' doesn't go with 'process'. The key should say "a": underlies.

CJ
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( a) underlies - any mental operation is hidden from analysis. It is "beneath (lying under)" the surface.
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I know 'underly' is correct.But can't accomplish be correct too?It has not been said anywhere that only a person accomplishes something
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soheil1can't accomplish be correct too?
No. Even though you will occasionally see a non-person as the subject of the verb accomplish, in this case the object is more important. to accomplish a process just isn't very good, especially to accomplish the process of forgetting. Forgetting is very hard to conceptualize as something that is a
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