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Post subject: Subject-verb agreement  Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 12:12 pm |
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With its plan to develop seven and a half acres of shore land, Cleveland is but one of a large number of communities on the Great Lakes that is looking to its waterfront as a way to improve the quality of urban life and attract new businesses.
(A) is looking to its waterfront as a way to improve the quality of urban life and attract
(B) is looking at its waterfront to improve the quality of urban life and attract
(C) are looking to their waterfronts to improve the quality of urban life and attract
(D) are looking to its waterfront as a way of improving the quality of urban life and attracting
(E) are looking at their waterfronts as a way they can improve the quality of urban life and attract
Between 'B' & 'C'??
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Post subject: Re: Subject-verb agreement Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 2:59 pm |
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With its plan to develop seven and a half acres of shore land, Cleveland is but one of a large number of communities on the Great Lakes that is looking to its waterfront as a way to improve the quality of urban life and attract new businesses.
(B) is looking at its waterfront to improve the quality of urban life and attract
(C) are looking to their waterfronts to improve the quality of urban life and attract
Original Errors:
Subject Verb Agreement
The issue I had with this problem was when I was trying to figure what the Verb "is" supposed to be in Agreement with. The Phrase "A Number of" is Plural so it takes the Verb Are.
PN Number Issue
The Pronoun cannot be its because again we are referring to communities not just Cleveland
Choice "C" makes correct use of Pronoun "their" and and Verb "are".
Hope that helps.
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Post subject: Re: Subject-verb agreement Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 3:16 pm |
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Thanx for the explanation isodhi!
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Post subject: Re: Subject-verb agreement Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 3:59 pm |
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Thanks! Let us know if you have any further questions..
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Post subject: Re: Subject-verb agreement Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 2:27 am |
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I don’t agree with the above explanation and with the choice aswell.
I think ''Cleveland' is the subject and therefore it should take 'is' and ''its' . So the option B) is correct.
'a number of' is inside of phrase and cannot be the subject and also if indeed this were the subject then there would have been 'those' instead of ''that'' to refer back to the plural subject .
Please correct me if this is wrong.
And also can 'that' refer back plural subject.
Thanks.
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Post subject: Re: Subject-verb agreement Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 6:20 pm |
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We can still have subjects and verbs inside subordinate clauses (that's why they're called subordinate clauses), so your proposed rule is an overgeneralization. In this case, we can identify the proper subject by asking ourselves what is looking to its waterfront. If Cleveland is looking to its waterfront, then the only purpose of the other communities is to confirm that Cleveland is in fact a community on the Great Lakes. This is not the intent of this sentence. On the other hand, it makes perfect sense to say that the communities are looking to their waterfronts..
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Post subject: Re: Subject-verb agreement Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2012 3:25 am |
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Post subject: Re: Subject-verb agreement Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 3:05 pm |
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cool; glad to hear it!
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