[Video] Q20: Requires or had required or does require or require

Explanation for Question 20 From the Writing Section on the 2018 April Sat

Hey guys. So question 20 is having us figure out the tents and plurality 2 of, uh, the use of the word require here. 3 So this is telling us that finally traditional methods of CAEs, 4 blink heat to compress the air, 5 which can lower the energy efficiency of the process. 6 Um, so what we need to figure out is first of all, 7 are we, what are we talking about or talking about the past tense? 8 Um, are we talking about the present tense or, 9 um, you know, like, or the future tense? 10 So it seems to be as that we're talking about the present tense, 11 but as we're not saying that, um, 12 you know, we're saying in the previous sentence is doing like reinforcing them and 13 building them, um, can do this or are possible in certain types 14 of blah, blah, blah. Um, and traditional methods, 15 um, can do this. So it seems like we're talking like in the present 16 tense at this, um, traditional methods, 17 um, might need this. 18 We're not saying it did need this it's no, 19 we're not saying had required or, 20 um, you know, uh, 21 it does require, we're saying it currently requires or 22 require this and we need to now figure out is okay. 23 Requires, um, or do we use requires or require, 24 so what we need, what we need to know is that requires is full 25 for a singular thing. Like he requires, 26 whereas I'm sorry, it looks like this is just E this should just say 27 require they require this. 28 So, uh, require for plural, 29 whereas requires is for singulars acids for singular and no essence for plural. 30 And that's pretty common. Now, this is telling us what, 31 what require, uh, what requires is the traditional methods, 32 the traditional methods, which are something plural there aren't, 33 it's not the traditional methods, the traditional methods, 34 multiple sewing to use require the traditional methods require this option 35 D because it's plural and.