<p>Two questions.</p>
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<p>For this one, I got the right answer (which is A) because it sounded funny. Grammatically speaking, why is A wrong and what would you change it to.</p>
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<p>The correct answer for this one is D. I am guessing it is the correct answer because you are supposed to change it to "nurses or doctors" to match up with the subject. My issue is that the subject of the sentence "the vast majority of children" is singular so why would D have to be changed?</p>
<p>Thank you so much!</p>
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<li>Wrong tense - the correct answer is A because it should be “has completed.” Now that she HAS COMPLETED the chapter, she feels confident. </li>
<li>Should be nurses or doctors because children=plural. It isn’t referring to a group, but rather the children, which is plural. You would say children are playing instead of children is playing, wouldn’t you?</li>
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<p>In the same way, because children is plural, they want to be nurses or doctors - it isn’t referring to a specific child.</p>
<p>Right, but isn’t “vast majority” singular? And for the first one, do you use “has completed” because the sentence starts with “now”?</p>
<p>majority can be either singular or plural.</p>
<p>The majority votes for John Doe. [Singular use]</p>
<p>The majority of children are smart. [Plural use.]</p>
<p>For the first question you need the “past perfect” tense. The action (“has completed”) happened at some unspecified time before now. The exact time is not specified and it is not important. The “now” at the start of the sentence explicitly sets the timeline, and the time of the action “completed” is based on that timeline – i.e. sometime before. In a sentence such as: “She completed her homework at midnight.” there is no explicit timeline reference and the past perfect tense is not required.</p>
<p>Hey guys, for number 1:
I think the sentence can be corrected in 2 ways: </p>
<p>If We put A wrong and correct it, then We have : Now that Nikki [has completed] the final chapter, she [feels] sufficiently confident … (as TheNexus said) </p>
<p>But if We put B wrong, then correct it into felt. Is it OK too?
Because Nikki [completed] the final chapter, she [felt] confident about… </p>
<p>How do you guys think about it?</p>
<p>the sentence is “now that” not " because" so you wouldn’t be able to use past tense</p>
<p>There’s a typo in my previous post. Instead of “past perfect” it should read “present perfect”.</p>
<p>The corrected post regarding the first question is:</p>
<p>For the first question you need the “present perfect” tense. The action (“has completed”) happened at some unspecified time before now. The exact time is not specified and it is not important. The “now” at the start of the sentence explicitly sets the timeline, and the time of the action “completed” is based on that timeline – i.e. sometime before. In a sentence such as: “She completed her homework at midnight.” there is no explicit timeline reference and the present perfect tense is not required. </p>
<p>A good reference is:</p>
<p>[ENGLISH</a> PAGE - Present Perfect](<a href=“http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfect.html]ENGLISH”>Present Perfect Tense | ENGLISH PAGE)</p>
