颠覆了我的三观啊！What主语从句谓语动词是单数还是复数的问题！

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Satanilles 发表于 2014-9-16 09:19
谢谢回答。这个句子就是Prep里面原题的
The period when the great painted caves at Lascaux and Altami ...

嗯嗯，跟大家一起讨论其实进步会很快，因为思路讲出来自己理解与记忆会变得更透彻~.看来这道考点的确实在what引导的的主语从句，OG暂时没有类似官方答案，这就看选择相信谁了。Prep08是论坛前辈编写出来的，Ron毕竟是native speaker并且是专家，但是选谁看楼主喜好咯~~

bryant92

只能说错误的选项错误肯定不止一个，不要让这个exception扰乱了做题的思维，反正我们也不管是怎么用的做出来GMAC的答案就得了。

what is much more difficult to determine are/is，这个题主语是what is much more difficult to determine, GMAC告诉你了主语是单数；你如果非要问主语是复数可以吗？那我觉得也可以，无非一个是问这句话的时候大家都清楚有太多难以determine的事情...

综上所述，不太可能考你说的那两个选项的方式，因为真的都可以...要相信GMAC不会搞这么vague的选项

Satanilles

bryant92 发表于 2014-9-16 11:01
只能说错误的选项错误肯定不止一个，不要让这个exception扰乱了做题的思维，反正我们也不管是怎么用的做出 ...

恩 我明白辣~！谢谢

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新看到，曼哈顿最新版的主谓一致那章强调，从句always是单数，不跟后面的走哦，楼主加油~~

Satanilles

ZZP无敌 发表于 2014-9-21 14:22
新看到，曼哈顿最新版的主谓一致那章强调，从句always是单数，不跟后面的走哦，楼主加油~~ ...

恩~！谢谢

seekyoucecily

还有人吗？？这个问题我也遇到了，还是不太理解……

Ron的观点：https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/forums/painted-caves-at-lascaux-and-altamira-t7994-30.html

what his father gave him IS a few books

You shouldn't see anything starting with "what are...", unless it's a question. GMAT SC sentences are never questions, so the whole thing is a non-issue. (I.e., you'll never actually face this kind of thing as a decision point between answer choices, so there is no reason to worry about it.)

但是prep08语法笔记 test2 166题最后补充了一道题：
正确句子是：The work of mathematician Roger Penrose in the early 1970s, on the geometry of what are called aperiodic tiles, turned out to describe the architecture of a previously unknown class of crystals.

哪个才对呢？
What are difficult to understand are A and B. 这样的说法道理对不对呢？？

谢谢各位！！！

seekyoucecily

还有人嘛

seekyoucecily

自己再顶顶～～

奥兰多铁杆球迷

今天也做到了这道题目
我记得凡是特殊疑问词开头的句子，谓语都是用单数

聪明蛋

ron 解释的是in a sentence that has the construction "X is Y" -- if both X and Y are nouns/noun phrases/noun clauses -- the subject is X.
always.  
这个例子，无论是what is much more difficult to determine 还是what his father left him 都是名词从句，（what都是做名词作用的引导词），这种从句做主语谓语是单数，主句谓语后面的名词不管是几个，有没有and 都是objective了，与主谓一致无关，不用考虑后面的单复情况
除非，是倒装句的时候。当verb前的结构不能做主语时，就是倒装句，verb后才是真正的主语。
objective of verbs，objective of preposition（我记得有个题是from which derive。。。which 应该算objective of “from”所以主语应该是derive后面的部分），subordinate clause；