How many times had she taken ...

[Soseki]

Hello,

How many times had she taken the driving test before she passed?
https://www.englishclub.com/esl-games/grammar/jumbled-tenses-past-perfect-9.htm

This is the right answer to the question No.9.

I then googled 'How many times had she'. It gave none.

Why is the answer so different from the Google data?

Thank you

 

[emsr2d2]

If you Googled "How many times had she", no wonder there weren't any results. It's not a complete sentence.

 

[Soseki]

If you Googled "How many times had she", no wonder there weren't any results. It's not a complete sentence.

Terrible!

 

[emsr2d2]

Terrible!

What's terrible?

 

[Soseki]

What's terrible?

In the sense it's not a complete sentence.

 

[Tdol]

The Corpus of Contemporary American English gives 49 examples of that phrase. It would probably be a better Google search without the pronoun, which would allow for other pronouns and names, and which gives 358,000 results, including false positives.

 

[Tdol]

PS It may also have something to do with personal search settings as I get pages of results for that exact search phrase. Did you put it between "enter search here" or not? If you put it between the double speech/quotation marks, Google searches for the exact phrase.