gmatguru:
GMATGuruNY wrote:In D, the structure how + to be + subject implies a question: how frequently IS the inventory turned over? To make a statement, the structure needs to be how + subject + verb, as in answer choice E: how frequently the inventory TURNS OVER. Eliminate D.
this is correct.
i want to emphasize this pattern for a very specific reason: many posters on this board don't put nearly enough effort into
pattern recognition, i.e., recognizing the
general structure or "look" of certain constructions. i.e., many people here tend to look at nothing except the smallest components of a sentence.
as proof of this assertion, i will note that there are many, many posters on this board who still don't write questions correctly even after posting over a thousand times!
for instance, many posters will ask questions like this:
"Why A is wrong?"
"Why this idiom is incorrect?"
as mitch has pointed out here, you can't write questions like this; questions are not written in this way.
the error is quite understandable at first -- this is how non-interrogative sentences (i.e. everything except questions) are written, so it's understandable that people would write questions in the same way
at first. however, if people are still doing this after 1000 posts, that's a strong indicator that they just aren't paying attention to key overall structures.
Ron has been teaching various standardized tests for 20 years.
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