Question
Even if you teach me many times, I will never understand
to take advantage of a situation . In each of the following sentences, one part of the sentence is emboldened. In the options, four alternatives are given. Find out which alternative could replace the phrase in bold to make the sentence grammatically and contextually correct. If the phrase is correct, select option 5, “No improvement required” as your answer.Solution
After some verbs like learn, know, ask, explain, understand, remember, etc., a question word + infinitive ‘to’ should be used. So, here, ‘how’ is a question word and can be correctly used in between ‘understand’ and ‘to take’. Even if you teach me many times, I will never understand how to take advantage of a situation.
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