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Executives and federal officials say that the use of crack and cocaine is growing rapidly among workers, significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, which already are a cost to business of more than $100 billion a year. (A) significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, which already are a cost to business of (B) significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, which already cost business (C) significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, already with business costs of (D) significant in compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, and already costing business (E) significant in compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, and already costs business Hi everyone.
I was working the 1000 sc through and found unclear for me question. Can u help me please. What is the subject for the second sentence? (which cost business....)
I think it is a USE ...
however in B (the right answer the subject is plural, COST)
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Ayrish wrote: Hi everyone.
I was working the 1000 sc through and found unclear for me question. Can u help me please. What is the subject for the second sentence? (which cost business....)
289. Executives and federal officials say that the use of crack and cocaine is growing rapidly among workers, significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, which already are a cost to business of more than $100 billion a year.
(A) significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, which already are a cost to business of
(B) significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, which already cost business
(C) significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, already with business costs of
(D) significant in compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, and already costing business
(E) significant in compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, and already costs business
I think it is a USE ...
however in B (the right answer the subject is plural, COST)
Tnank you for any help. You need an adverbial modifier (significantly compounding) so cancel out choices D and E. "which" is refering to plural subject - the effects of drug and alcohol abuse In A: a cost to business of is weird and unidiomatic. C again has a modifier issues.
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Ayrish wrote: Hi everyone.
I was working the 1000 sc through and found unclear for me question. Can u help me please. What is the subject for the second sentence? (which cost business....)
289. Executives and federal officials say that the use of crack and cocaine is growing rapidly among workers, significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, which already are a cost to business of more than $100 billion a year.
(A) significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, which already are a cost to business of
(B) significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, which already cost business
(C) significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, already with business costs of
(D) significant in compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, and already costing business
(E) significant in compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, and already costs business
I think it is a USE ...
however in B (the right answer the subject is plural, COST)
Tnank you for any help. B is correct.... Explanation: D and E are out as you need an adverb for sure.... you need 'which' as the second clause is modify the first clause..... hence C is out.. between A and B.. cost would be preferred as a verb than a noun (currently in A) Also as asked by you the subject of the clause is 'the effects of drug and alcohol abuse' which is plural... and hence cost is perfect....
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B, this one should have the word businesses in it, shouldn't it?
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+1 B However, I think that the verb "cost" should be "costS" because it refers to abuse. "Which" refers to the noun which is next to it. Or could it refer to a noun phrase ("the effects of drug and alcohol abuse")? Thanks!
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which is referring effects (plural) not only abuse.
hence,Cost will be plural
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Would you please someone explain the reference of "which" in this question? According to Manhattan SC book,page 91, I though "which" always refers to the noun immediately preceding it. So here "which" should refer to abuse. Can someone tell me what I'm missing here? Thank you:)
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misan wrote: Would you please someone explain the reference of "which" in this question? According to Manhattan SC book,page 91, I though "which" always refers to the noun immediately preceding it. So here "which" should refer to abuse. Can someone tell me what I'm missing here? Thank you:) Hi there, The correct answer for this question is B. Let's see the senetnce with the correct answer choice now: Executives and federal officials say that the use of crack and cocaine is growing rapidly among workers, significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, which already cost business more than $100 billion a year. "which" is a relative pronoun that must refer to a preceding noun entity. This entity can be a single word noun entity or a noun phrase. In this case, "which" modifies the preceding noun entity "the effects of drug and alcohol abuse", a noun phrase. Since "the effects" is the head of this noun phrase, "which" stands for that plural enity and hence takes plural verb "cost". So Noun Modifiers can refer to a slightly far away noun as we saw in this sentence. To read more on this topic, click on the following link: noun-modifiers-can-modify-slightly-far-away-noun-135868.htmlHope this helps.  Thanks. Shraddha
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Executives and federal officials say that the use of crack and cocaine is growing rapidly among workers, significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, which already are a cost to business of more than $100 billion a year. (A) significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, which already are a cost to business of >>> Wrong. Too wordy (B) significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, which already cost business >>> Correct. Concise. "The effects" is plural + "cost" --> Correct (C) significantly compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, already with business costs of >>> Wrong. the use of "with" is unclear. (D) significant in compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, and already costing business >>> Wrong. parallel structure is wrong. (E) significant in compounding the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, and already costs business >>> Wrong . parallel structure is wrong. So, B is the best.
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