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Salman Khan Posted 11 years ago
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Which type of sentence structure error below passage contains?
Even if you hide the marmalade in the remotest corner of the house, you can be sure that Carlotta will nose it out, devour it, and hide the evidence before you know what hit you.
A. Misplaced modifier
B. Pronoun reference
C. Subject-verb agreement
D. Parallelism
E. Verb tense shift
F. None of the above
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Can't find any, so I think its F - None. What do you think ?
Even if you hide the marmalade in the remotest corner of the house, you can be sure that Carlotta will nose it out, devour it, and hide the evidence before you know what hit you.
A. Misplaced modifier
B. Pronoun reference
C. Subject-verb agreement
D. Parallelism
E. Verb tense shift
F. None of the above
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Can't find any, so I think its F - None. What do you think ?
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Even if you hide the marmalade in the remotest corner of the house, you can be sure that Carlotta will nose it out, devour it, and hide the evidence before you know what hit hits you. It should be "what hits you". What do you think should be the answer?
- Even if you hide the marmalade in the remotest corner of the house, you can be sure that Carlotta will nose it out, devour it, and hide the evidence before you know what hit hits you.
- It should be "what hits you".
- What do you think should be the answer?
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Even if you hide the marmalade in the remotest corner of the house, you can be sure that Carlotta will nose it out, devour it, and hide the evidence before you know what hit hits you.
It should be "what hits you". What do you think should be the answer?
It should be "what hits you". What do you think should be the answer?
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tamguatlayIt should be "what hits you". What do you think should be the answer?No, "hit" is correct, but you are on the right track.
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The answer, in my opinion, is E. The sentence should've read 'before you know what has hit you'. The present perfect has hit, unlike hit (past tense), can refer to the future.
Btw, I don't see anything wrong with hits either( as Tam suggested ).
Btw, I don't see anything wrong with hits either( as Tam suggested ).
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Salman KhanNote (above) how to write your question.Which type of sentence structure error below passage contains?Which type of sentence structure error does the passage below contain?
Salman KhanI think its F - None. What do you think ?I agree. F. However, you can make a ca
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I, like most people who responded in the other forum in which you posted this question, can see nothing wrong with that sentence.
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If there's nothing wrong with the sentence, how can we explain the mixing of the tenses used then? In particular, why is hit in the past tense when it clearly refers to the future?
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What bothers me about the sentence is "know".
When I use the expression, I always use "knew"
It happened before he knew what hit him.
When I use the expression, I always use "knew"
It happened before he knew what hit him.
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AlpheccaStarsIt happened before he knew what hit him.All your verbs are in the past tense, so it's different from the original sentence in that respect.
Anyway, it would be interesting to see the answer and explanation given by the question/test authors.
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