<p>Well, my book doesn’t provide explanations for their questions so I have no other way to understand this question w/o u guyz help. </p>
<li>The impostor eluded detection for so long because she conducted herself <as though="" she="" were="" a="" licensed="" practitioner.=""></as></li>
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<p>(<> this is the underlined part)</p>
<p>(A) as though she were a licensed practitioner
(B) as though she was a licensed practitioner
(C) like she was a licensed pracititioner
(D) like as if she was a licensed practitioner
(E) as if she was a practitioner with a license</p>
<p>the answer is (A), I don’t really get it. I chose (E). </p>
<li>The government requires <that these="" forms="" should="" be="" submitted=""> before the end of the financial year.</that></li>
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<p>(A) that these forms should be submitted
(B) that these forms be submitted
(C) for these forms to be submitted
(D) these forms’ submission
(E) these forms should be submitted</p>
<p>Notice the tense of the sentence. It is past tense, describing that the impostor eluded detection for a time. You can rule out C and D because they do not agree. E is correct in tense, but the conjugation is wrong. The “was” in this case should be conjugated to “were.” This also rules out B. So the answer is A.</p>
<p>number 2 is B, here’s why:</p>
<p>try replacing “that these forms” with just “these.” The new sentence would be: </p>
<p>“The government requires these should be submitted” which sounds extremely awkward. The best way to fix that would be “The government requires these be submitted,” which would avoid the ambiguity of the first one. The words “that” and “these” are in the sentence to deliberately confuse you.</p>
<p>It is actually a situation of using the subjunctive mood of verbs. This is not used very often in conversational English, but it is correct, and it is the reason for the correct answers in both of these questions. The subjunctive is used all the time in French and Spanish. It is a complicated concept, so rather than go into it here, I suggest that you look into an English grammar book. By the way, the part of the sentence I just wrote <i suggest=“” that=“” you=“” look=“” into=“” …=“”> also contains the subjunctive of the verb “look” but the verb form does not change in English. It would change in French and Spanish (probably in other languages as well, but I only know French and Spanish-- and English!). It’s tricky!</i></p><i suggest=“” that=“” you=“” look=“” into=“” …=“”>
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<p>franglish is right. basically, the subjunctive mood is used to describe a situation contrary to fact. the three sentences above (two questions and franglish’s sentence) are good examples of how you might use it: when discussing something that’s not as it seems to be (“as though she were” instead of “she was”) or when politely making a request or suggestion (“i suggest she look” instead of “she looks,” “requires that these forms be submited” instead of “are submitted”).</p>
<p>the subjunctive doesn’t appear on the SAT, though, so I wouldn’t worry about it for the purposes of this forum :)</p>
<p>The subjunctive does not appear on the SAT?? Really? I had spent time trying to grasp those stuff, since they appeared on the SAT writing books I used i.g. McGraw hill.
That I don’t hv to concentrate on this stuff for certain??</p>