Out of public's interest in the details of and conflicts

i think the issue is very much the actual antecedent of which. Here the term which can refer to either market or television shows and hence ambiguous.
based on what is the actual antecedent of which, the verb following which is decided.
logically Which here can refer to either of two. It could refer to market if such usage were without any ambiguity. i don't think GMAC will ever leave the logical meaning as per discretion of the test takers.

I felt, as per the logical meaning which should refer to 'interest'...as it is better contender than booming market or tv shows.
But as 'interest' is far away from which, it should refer to closest noun tv shows.

"which is bringing" refers to television shows in option D..
shows are plural...
any experts please help

is helps me to remove the filler :


Out of public's interestin the details of and conflicts in [u]other people's lives have grown a booming market for reality television shows, which are bringing [/u]regular people onto the television with increasing frequency.

"which" here refers to the market. If test takers read fast, they should know this. If there is any doubt, the market brings people, not the shows.
"another" is incorrect.

hello, I need help.
Can you tell me the difference between "other" and "another"

it changed the meaning of the sentence.

is the market about looking into one other person's life ( singular) or multiple peoples lives

hi,,, but "which" refers to the word right before it, in this case television shows...correct???

yes, but that is just a half of the truth. "which" normally and often refers to the word before the comma, but "which" also refers to the word that has the verb agreement, and the word has the logic.

for example, the vicinity of fields that/ ,which.... can refer to "vicinity" or "fields". It depends.

according to the question, persons' life, not person's life. Therefore, I do not know how the meaning is changed.

persons' is not a word.

that would imply the possessive plural.

the possessive plural is people's

so i assumed it was a spelling mistake for person's life

persons' is not a word.

that would imply the possessive plural.

the possessive plural is people's

so i assumed it was a spelling mistake for person's life[/quote]


persons = people
However, the possessive pronoun are not same?

persons = people
However, the possessive pronoun are not same?[/quote]



singular plural
person people
singular possessive plural possessive
person's people's

Out of public's interest in the details of and conflicts in other people's lives have grown a booming market for reality television shows, which are bringing regular people onto the television with increasing frequency.

Experts please help. Here is my analysis of this question:

1) Plural verb 'have' is fine as 'and' forms a compound subject. Why is has correct?
2) Which refers to the preceding noun. Then why is which referring to market?


Thanks

Experts I have few queries regarding this question and I have posted my understanding of this question. Please help.

Thanks

The correct one : Out of public's interest in the details of and conflicts in other people's lives has grown a booming market for reality television shows -- > the subject is "a booming market for reality .." Something like this -

a booming market for reality television shows has grown out of ......

We generally used this type of structure for proper placement of the subsequent modifier. One additional thing you have to note - this SC does not want us to know whether we require has/have, because there is no split between has/have ( except A) here. The real way to get any SC questions correct is to work with the splits/differences. We are not looking for the perfect one, but the best out of the five.

The main split is with "which". So, your second question..



What "which" refers depend on context and the subsequent verb. Since, "is" is singular, it refer to a singular noun "market". What it must refer to - "market" or "shows" is a separate question however. [ for more refer the Emily Dickenson's letter Problem from OG]

In addition to what I have written, recent OG-18 questions point to a justified conclusion that GMAT has been less stringent with the usage of "which".

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Well nice discussion here-but if this is not an official question, then it looks like a waste of time. Because if we look at the meaning and ask- 'what is it that is bringing people to TV'? It is the TV shows and not the 'market' so I would B looks to be the correct answer.