Poker players recognize a “full house” as a five-card hand in which you have three of one type of card and two of another. Many sentence correction questions follow this fashion.
If you look at the 5 answer choices , you can see 2 idiom ways ( 3 answers, 2 answers ). Usually it’s a parallel construction. If you don’t see the faulty idiom, you can compare the answer like this.
A representative of the Internal Revenue Service usually finds most people are willing to cooperate during an audit, yet they become agitated, defensive, and suspect computer error.
- most people are willing to cooperate during an audit, yet they become agitated, defensive, and suspect
- most people to be willingly cooperative during an audit , and they are also agitated, defensive , and they suspect
- that most people are willing to cooperate during an audit, yet they become agitated, defensive , and suspicious of
- that people are mostly willing to cooperate during an audit, and they become agitated, defensive, and suspicious of
- that most people are willingly cooperative during an audit, yet they are becoming agitated, defensive, and suspect
The idiom is to recognize is find that. Because the two first don’t contain “that” you can eliminate them. You cansee other 2/3 split patterns “to cooperate/cooperative” , “willing/willingly” . “to cooperate” and “willing” patterns are correct so eliminate E , only C and D remain.
A representative of the Internal Revenue Service usually finds most people are willing to cooperate during an audit, yet they become agitated, defensive, and suspect computer error.
- most people are willing to cooperate during an audit, yet they become agitated, defensive, and suspect
- most people to be willingly cooperative during an audit , and they are also agitated, defensive , and they suspect
- that most people are willing to cooperate during an audit, yet they become agitated, defensive , and suspicious of
- that people are mostly willing to cooperate during an audit, and they become agitated, defensive, and suspicious of
- that most people are willingly cooperative during an audit, yet they are becoming agitated, defensive, and suspect
The idiom is to recognize is find that. Because the 2 first don’t contain you can eliminate them. The easiest is done. Now how are C & D different ?
D is wrong because it used mostly to describe willing instead of “most people”. The two descriptions willing to cooperate and become agitated are contrary, therefore you should use yet, not and . So the final answer is C
- that most people are willing to cooperate during an audit, yet they become agitated, defensive , and suspicious of
Well if you have any questions related to the 2/3 split and better if you have a sentence correction , please feel free to post here
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