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Niue Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Support + that clause
Hi!
I read the following in a TOEIC Test book:
"149. Enclosed is a copy of the letter I received from your office ______ that no new account activity would be permitted after April 19.
(A) supporting
(B) predicting
(C) requesting
(D) allowing
(Anwer: A)" ((Hackers Mock-Test, Reading, Test 1))
Do you agree with the above that A is correct?
I don't think 'support' can have a 'that'-clause as its object.
What do you think?
Thanks in advance.
I read the following in a TOEIC Test book:
"149. Enclosed is a copy of the letter I received from your office ______ that no new account activity would be permitted after April 19.
(A) supporting
(B) predicting
(C) requesting
(D) allowing
(Anwer: A)" ((Hackers Mock-Test, Reading, Test 1))
Do you agree with the above that A is correct?
I don't think 'support' can have a 'that'-clause as its object.
What do you think?
Thanks in advance.
Top answer
Yes, I agree that A is correct. The verb support is a transient verb, which means that it requires an object. In your sentence the whole that clause clause could be considered the object of "supporting".
- Yes, I agree that A is correct.
- The verb support is a transient verb, which means that it requires an object.
- In your sentence the whole that clause clause could be considered the object of "supporting".
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Yes, I agree that A is correct. The verb support is a transient verb, which means that it requires an object. In your sentence the whole that clause clause could be considered the object of "supporting".
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Sorry, but I do not find it natural at all. I see no answer there that is correct. I see that it is a mock test and not an official ETS test, so an error could well have crept in somewhere.
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Mister MicawberSorry, but I do not find it natural at all. I see no answer there that is correct. I see that it is a mock test and not an official ETS test, so an error could well have crept in somewhere.
Yes, I agree that the sentence is strange-sounding but is it really ungrammatical?
I take "support" to mean "approve of" in that sentence.
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In my opinion, it is quite ungrammatical. 'Approve of that...' does not work either.
I cannot think of a correct answer which is near 'supporting' in spelling (thus indicating a typographical error). Correct answers to the sentence as written would be 'confirming/explaining/indicating/announcing' for instance.
I cannot think of a correct answer which is near 'supporting' in spelling (thus indicating a typographical error). Correct answers to the sentence as written would be 'confirming/explaining/indicating/announcing' for instance.
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I'd say "approve of the fact that..." not just "approve of that" but somehow " supporting that..." doesn't seem wrong to me.
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