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Old 27-Aug-2004, 02:36
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7. To completely understand the situation requires more thought than he has given thus far.

Cas, we assume that the Answer is correct that ( To completely understand ) is wrong. Can I interpret that the verb ( requires ) lacks a subject. In this case, we can put ( That ) as the subject of the sentence. It became

That to completely understand the situation requires more thought than he has given thus far. ?

:P Hopefully it doesn't sound odd :P
Sorry. It doesn't work. Good try, though.

The main point is this, it's the situation that requires more thought on his part,

The situation (it) requires more thought.

He doesn't understand the situation, so he will need to give the situation more thought. It requires more thought on his part.

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