Research during the past several decades on the nature of language and the processes that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity.
(A) that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity
(B) of producing and understanding it have revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity
(C) by which it is produced and understood has revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity
(D) by which it is produced and understood have revealed great complexity rather than underlying simplicity
(E) by which one produces and understands it have revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity
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- tanz_e
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Re: Research
am totally confused. Are 'research' and 'the processes' parallel here? so should we look for 'has' or 'have'?
- kbhardwaj
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Re: Research
IMO, the statement intends that the research is being done on two things:
1. the nature of language
2. the processes that produce it and make it understandable
These two should be parallel.
This leaves us with a singular subject "Research", so we should use "has". Options B,D and E get eliminated.
Among A and C, I would go with A because C is using the awkward construction "has reveled not underlying simplicity but great complexity"
Could you please post the answer? And the source as well?
~Kb
1. the nature of language
2. the processes that produce it and make it understandable
These two should be parallel.
This leaves us with a singular subject "Research", so we should use "has". Options B,D and E get eliminated.
Among A and C, I would go with A because C is using the awkward construction "has reveled not underlying simplicity but great complexity"
Could you please post the answer? And the source as well?
~Kb
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