GuptaDarsh wrote:
hiZarrolou and mikemcgarry
I understood that as per S-V agreement we need to use singular "was". but I am confused with the use of
Including vs. NeitherX nor Y
if the optn C would have been :
C) - including her therapist and her doctors – WAS able to see
E) - neither her therapist nor her doctors – was able to see
in this case will we still prefer E over C ??
I guess as the sentce says "NO ONE medical professional" - the use of neitherX norY is redundant & "Including" will correctly modify professional.
Please explain
Thanks in advance
Cheers...
Dear
GuptaDarsh,
I'm happy to respond.
If option
(C) had the singular verb, both
(C) &
(E) would be perfectly correct, and there really would be no good way to choose. Yes, "
no one medical professional" is unambiguously clear, but for added rhetorical emphasis, we add what's between the dashes --- again, either
(C) or
(E) would be fine on that issue.
You have to understand: this question is of OK quality, but not an excellent question. Most of the questions from the
OG and other official sources are truly excellent: this means that many different issues are at play among the answer choices. In this question, many of the answer choices are "one-trick ponies" --- there's just one problem, and if we fix that one problem, then the answer choice is perfectly correct. This is a characteristic of SC questions that I would call "second tier," that is, a notch below the standard of excellence that characterizes official questions.
Does all this make sense?
Mike
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