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In the human female, an entire lifetime's supply of egg cells are prod

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In the human female, an entire lifetime's supply of egg cells are prod [#permalink] New post   29 May 2019, 05:15
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In the human female, an entire lifetime's supply of egg cells are produced during fetal development and remain dormant until puberty, where upon one egg is activated each month.


(A) are produced during fetal development and remain

(B) are produced while the fetus develops, and these cells remain

(C) are produced during fetal development; they remain

(D) is produced during fetal development; and these cells remain

(E) is produced while the fetus develops and remains
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Re: In the human female, an entire lifetime's supply of egg cells are prod [#permalink] New post   29 May 2019, 05:34
D, since ABC elmininated due to use of 'are'. Supply will have usage of is.
Also, egg cells , so remains is wrong. It will be remain

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Re: In the human female, an entire lifetime's supply of egg cells are prod [#permalink] New post   29 May 2019, 05:35
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The subject is “lifetime supply of egg cells” which is singular. So verb must be singular “is”.
Eliminate A, B and C

Out of D and E, one has to understand what remains dormant until puberty: egg cells or supply. The clarity is obtained when it’s the egg cells.

So E is eliminated and D SHOULD BE OUR ANSWER.

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Re: In the human female, an entire lifetime's supply of egg cells are prod [#permalink] New post   05 Jun 2019, 02:05
- Is the usage of Semi colon correct here?
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Re: In the human female, an entire lifetime's supply of egg cells are prod [#permalink] New post   13 Jun 2019, 08:06
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- Is the usage of Semi colon correct here?

Why do you feel so ?

2 Independent sentences are connected using semi colon + FANBOYS ...
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Re: In the human female, an entire lifetime's supply of egg cells are prod [#permalink] New post   13 Jun 2019, 08:19
;+ Fanboys


Is it not wrong ?

, + FANBOYS is the correct usage .

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Re: In the human female, an entire lifetime's supply of egg cells are prod [#permalink] New post   22 Apr 2021, 23:23
Either 'and' or 'semicolon' needs to be removed
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Re: In the human female, an entire lifetime's supply of egg cells are prod [#permalink] New post   23 Apr 2021, 00:30
Use of semi colon and ‘and’ seems suspicious. Generally, sentence following a semi colon is an independent clauses. In choice D, the following sentence is definitely an independent clause, but the use of and is unnecessary. The sentence would have still made a perfect sense without using and at the start of an independent clause.
Can anybody please shed some more light on the usage of as in this seemingly correct choice?
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Re: In the human female, an entire lifetime's supply of egg cells are prod [#permalink] New post   23 Apr 2021, 06:07
I understand that technically " an entire lifetime's supply of egg cells " is singular, hence "is produced" is correct.
However, if we see meaning wise, can "entire lifetime's supply" be "produced" or "egg cells" are "produced"

Can anyone shed some light on this?
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Re: In the human female, an entire lifetime's supply of egg cells are prod [#permalink] New post   12 Apr 2023, 03:54
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rsrighosh wrote:
I understand that technically " an entire lifetime's supply of egg cells " is singular, hence "is produced" is correct.
However, if we see meaning wise, can "entire lifetime's supply" be "produced" or "egg cells" are "produced"

Can anyone shed some light on this?


Hello everyone,

We hope this finds you well.

To clear up any meaning-related doubt about this sentence, it is entirely logical to say that the cells of the body are "produced".

We hope this helps.
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