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shankar245
 Post subject: According to scientists at the Universit
 Post Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:09 pm 
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According to scientists at the University of California, the pattern of changes that have occurred in human DNA over the millennia indicate the possibility that everyone alive today might be descended from a single female ancestor who lived in Africa sometime between 140,000 and 280,000 years ago.


I was just doing this Subject Verb Agreement Exercise and was confused over this bold part as to whether the subject is the pattern or the highlighted part.



Also can You please clarify the usage of "that" as part of the subject. I mean when do we consider the parts after that as a subject.Is it solely based on the meaning?



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muralidharin
 Post subject: Re: According to scientists at the Universit
 Post Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 7:52 am 
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that' without a comma - they must modify the immediately preceding noun.
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harish2311
 Post subject: Re: According to scientists at the Universit
 Post Posted: Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:35 am 
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the subject here is "the changes"
since that is a plural subject, we the changes that have occured
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jnelson0612
 Post subject: Re: According to scientists at the Universit
 Post Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 11:05 pm 
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muralidharin wrote:
that' without a comma - they must modify the immediately preceding noun.


Correct! "that have . . . . " is modifying "changes". The subject here is "pattern" and everything else behind "pattern" in bold is modifying "pattern".

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dhingra_gaurav007
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 Post Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 4:51 am 
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jnelson0612 wrote:
muralidharin wrote:
that' without a comma - they must modify the immediately preceding noun.


Correct! "that have . . . . " is modifying "changes". The subject here is "pattern" and everything else behind "pattern" in bold is modifying "pattern".



Hi Jnelson..

If Pattern is the subject here then isnt there a S-V disagreement.

Pattern is singular..then the verb used should be Indicates not indicate.

Please correct me if i am missing something.
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jnelson0612
 Post subject: Re: According to scientists at the Universit
 Post Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 9:44 pm 
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dhingra_gaurav007 wrote:
jnelson0612 wrote:
muralidharin wrote:
that' without a comma - they must modify the immediately preceding noun.


Correct! "that have . . . . " is modifying "changes". The subject here is "pattern" and everything else behind "pattern" in bold is modifying "pattern".



Hi Jnelson..

If Pattern is the subject here then isnt there a S-V disagreement.

Pattern is singular..then the verb used should be Indicates not indicate.

Please correct me if i am missing something.


shankar, I just googled and found this problem on the internet. The subject is indeed "pattern"; in the example I found the verb "indicate" is part of the answer choices. The correct answer uses the singular verb "indicates". The sentence you found is incorrectly bolded; "pattern of changes" should not be bolded and "indicate" should be bolded. Hope this helps!

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