سوال ۵۲ کنکور ارشد مدیریت کسبوکار (MBA) ۱۴۰۲
اهمیت
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The development of paper money meant that people had grasped the difference between money as a symbol and money as something .......... only the actual cost of the paper and ink in making a bill.
پاسخ صحیح: گزینهٔ B — that was worth
پاسخ تشریحی
Answer: option 2 — that was worth. A subject relative clause (بند موصولی فاعلی) modifies something: something that was worth only the actual cost. That is the relative subject, was is the linking verb, and worth means having a specified monetary value.
- 1) was worth: omits the subject relative pronoun. Unlike an object relative pronoun, subject that cannot simply be dropped while the finite verb was remains.
- 2) that was worth: supplies a complete relative clause and correctly follows worth with an amount or value.
- 3) that its worth was: uses that where possessive whose would be needed to connect its worth to something. Compare something whose worth was only the actual cost.
- 4) whose worth: begins a possessive relative but leaves it without a finite verb; was would have to follow worth.
Exam trick: Distinguish be worth + amount from whose worth is/was + amount; do not mix their structures.
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