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The Daughters of the American Revolution, a volunteer service organization, admits as members only women who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution.


(A) admits as members only women who can prove lineal descent

(B) admit as members only women who can prove lineal descent

(C) admits as members women who can prove lineal descent

(D) only admit as members women who can prove lineal descent

(E) admits as members women who can prove lineal descent only
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Originally posted by sidbidus on 07 Nov 2007, 08:23.
Last edited by Bunuel on 06 Nov 2018, 05:55, edited 5 times in total.
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Re: American Revolution Confusing Question [#permalink] New post   19 Sep 2010, 02:00
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The Daughters of the American Revolution, a volunteer service organization, admits as members only women who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution.

'The Daughters of the American Revolution' is the name of the organization. It is singular so we can cancel out options B & D.

A. admits as members only women who can prove lineal descent
C. admits as members women who can prove lineal descent
E. admits as members women who can prove lineal descent only


The basic idea is that the organization admits ONLY THOSE women who can prove lineal descent.

E is badly formed.
C mentions that the organization admits women who can prove lineal descent but does not specify that proving lineal descent is mandatory.

A is the correct answer as it specifies that proving lineal descent is mandatory.
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Re: The Daughters of the American Revolution, a volunteer service organiza [#permalink] New post   12 Oct 2022, 00:38
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sidbidus wrote:
The Daughters of the American Revolution, a volunteer service organization, admits as members only women who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution.


(A) admits as members only women who can prove lineal descent

(B) admit as members only women who can prove lineal descent

(C) admits as members women who can prove lineal descent

(D) only admit as members women who can prove lineal descent

(E) admits as members women who can prove lineal descent only


Official Explanation:

This sentence correctly matches the singular subject "Daughters of the American Revolution" with the singular verb "admits." Note that the subject is the organization (singular) rather than the many individual “daughters” (plural). "Only" correctly modifies "women who can prove…," indicating that neither men nor women without genealogical ties to an American patriot are admitted as members of the organization.

(A) CORRECT. This sentence is correct as written.

(B) This choice incorrectly matches the singular subject "Daughters of the American Revolution" with the plural verb "admit."

(C) In this choice, the adverb "only" has been deleted from the sentence, changing the meaning. The sentence now implies that the organization may admit the people mentioned (women who can prove lineal descent….) as well as other people not mentioned. The original intent of the sentence was to
indicate the eligibility requirement for membership.

(D) This choice incorrectly matches the singular subject "Daughters of the American Revolution" with the plural verb "admit."

(E) In this choice, the adverb "only" modifies "from a patriot of the American Revolution,” nonsensically indicating that to be eligible for membership in the organization, women can have no ancestors other than a single patriot.
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Re: The Daughters of the American Revolution, a volunteer service organiza [#permalink] New post   07 Nov 2007, 10:03
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sidbidus wrote:
The Daughters of the American Revolution, a volunteer service organization, admits as members only women who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution.

(A)admits as members only women who can prove lineal descent
(B)admit as members only women who can prove lineal descent
(C)admits as members women who can prove lineal descent
(D)only admit as members women who can prove lineal descent
(E)admits as members women who can prove lineal descent only



A. "The Daughters of the American Revolution" is a singular subject so "admits" matches the singular verb requirement.
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Re: American Revolution Confusing Question [#permalink] New post   19 Sep 2010, 02:03
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I got C for this question and believe the explanation from MGMAT is poor. Can anyone explain please?


The Daughters of the American Revolution, a volunteer service organization, admits as members only women who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution.

A. admits as members only women who can prove lineal descent
B. admit as members only women who can prove lineal descent
C. admits as members women who can prove lineal descent
D. only admit as members women who can prove lineal descent
E. admits as members women who can prove lineal descent only


The Daughters of the American Revolution, a volunteer service organization, - singular -organization.
=> B and D are out.

E is wrong as it changes the meaning by placing only at the end.

A and C are close but A is correct.

Suppose A is admits as members, only women who can prove lineal descent -> Then I think you can differentiate what is wrong with C.

Only-women-clause modifies members but in c women modifies members that is illogical.
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Re: The Daughters of the American Revolution, a volunteer service organiza [#permalink] New post   04 Apr 2012, 11:00
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The Daughters of the American Revolution, is the name of an organistion and a proper noun. All names , titles etc are singular in usage although they may contain plural words. Examples:

1 A Mid-Summer Night's Dreams is a comedy by Shakespear
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by Mark Twain
3. The Servants Of Mary is a wide spread organization
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Re: The Daughters of the American Revolution, a volunteer service organiza [#permalink] New post   23 Sep 2012, 19:29
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The Daughters of the American Revolution is a proper noun and aname of a society; therefore, the verb ha to be singular’ admits’ .drop B and D. We also need the restricting adverb only because it is an important qualification to be admitted. C gets dropped. In E, the placement of ‘only’ at the end distorts the original intent and hence Only A survives
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Re: The Daughters of the American Revolution, a volunteer service organiza [#permalink] New post   24 Aug 2016, 06:39
sidbidus wrote:
The Daughters of the American Revolution, a volunteer service organization, admits as members only women who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution.

(A)admits as members only women who can prove lineal descent
(B)admit as members only women who can prove lineal descent
(C)admits as members women who can prove lineal descent
(D)only admit as members women who can prove lineal descent
(E)admits as members women who can prove lineal descent only



Its very difficult to figure out between option A and E.
How can we we eliminate E saying that it only is not supposed to mean that the daughers might have descended from anything other than American Revolution as well.
In my fast glance E made perfect sense.Please help me resolve this!!

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Re: The Daughters of the American Revolution, a volunteer service organiza [#permalink] New post   24 Aug 2016, 15:47
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sidbidus wrote:
The Daughters of the American Revolution, a volunteer service organization, admits as members only women who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution.

(A)admits as members only women who can prove lineal descent
(B)admit as members only women who can prove lineal descent
(C)admits as members women who can prove lineal descent
(D)only admit as members women who can prove lineal descent
(E)admits as members women who can prove lineal descent only



Its very difficult to figure out between option A and E.
How can we we eliminate E saying that it only is not supposed to mean that the daughers might have descended from anything other than American Revolution as well.
In my fast glance E made perfect sense.Please help me resolve this!!

thanks


E is wrong because of the problematic meaning it conveys - the option means that the organization admits women who can prove only one thing - lineal descent - and cannot prove any other thing !

Option A means that the organization admits only those women who prove lineal descent and not any other women.

Hence A is better than E.
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Re: The Daughters of the American Revolution, a volunteer service organiza [#permalink] New post   22 Aug 2023, 21:03
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sidbidus wrote:
The Daughters of the American Revolution, a volunteer service organization, admits as members only women who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution.


(A) admits as members only women who can prove lineal descent

(B) admit as members only women who can prove lineal descent

(C) admits as members women who can prove lineal descent

(D) only admit as members women who can prove lineal descent

(E) admits as members women who can prove lineal descent only


Daughters of the American Revolution is a collective noun, so it needs to have singular verb ADMITS (example: Dog barks)
So we can eliminate B and D
E has only towards the end which does not make sense, so eliminate
Between A and C - original sentence has the emphasis on ONLY before women, so we can go with the same. Hence A instead of C
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