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What concern scientists the most about global warming are the risks that the polar ice caps will melt, the seas will grow too warm to sustain marine life, and that violent weather patterns may result.· are the risks that the polar ice caps will melt, the seas will grow too warm to sustain marine life, and that violent weather patterns may result · is the risks that the polar ice caps will melt, that the seas will grow too warm to sustain marine life, and that violent weather patterns may result · are the risks that the polar ice caps will melt, that the seas will grow too warm to sustain marine life, and that violent weather patterns may result · is the risks that the polar ice caps will melt, the seas will grow too warm to sustain marine life, and that violent weather patterns may result · are the risks of polar ice caps melting, seas growing too warm to sustain marine life, and that violent weather patterns may result A bit confused on this.
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Re: Global Warming [#permalink]
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IMO C
But i have the same question posed by yangsta8. Can someone pls answer it
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Re: Global Warming [#permalink]
08 Nov 2009, 12:36
C.
concern --> 'are' + parallelism
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Re: Global Warming [#permalink]
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jax91 wrote: What concern scientists the most about global warming are the risks that the polar ice caps will melt, the seas will grow too warm to sustain marine life, and that violent weather patterns may result.
· are the risks that the polar ice caps will melt, the seas will grow too warm to sustain marine life, and that violent weather patterns may result
· is the risks that the polar ice caps will melt, that the seas will grow too warm to sustain marine life, and that violent weather patterns may result
· are the risks that the polar ice caps will melt, that the seas will grow too warm to sustain marine life, and that violent
weather patterns may result
· is the risks that the polar ice caps will melt, the seas will grow too warm to sustain marine life, and that violent
weather patterns may result
· are the risks of polar ice caps melting, seas growing too warm to sustain marine life, and that violent weather
patterns may result
A bit confused on this. B & D can be eliminated for subject-verb agreement. IMO "C" is parallel
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Re: Global Warming [#permalink]
08 Nov 2009, 18:42
I agree with C as well. Is the question stem grammatically correct in “What concern scientists”? Shouldn’t this be “What concerns scientists” as ‘risks’ are plural. In fact if it was singular shouldn’t it be “What is a concern to scientists”.
Eg.
I have a concern.
I have concerns.
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Re: Global Warming [#permalink]
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OA is C
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Re: Global Warming [#permalink]
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Is "What concern scientists the most" correct? Shouldn't it be "What concerns"? Because of concern I ended up selecting between B and D..."My concern is" and "my concerns are"
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Re: Global Warming [#permalink]
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jax91 wrote: What concern scientists the most about global warming are the risks that the polar ice caps will melt, the seas will grow too warm to sustain marine life, and that violent weather patterns may result.
· are the risks that the polar ice caps will melt, the seas will grow too warm to sustain marine life, and that violent weather patterns may result
· is the risks that the polar ice caps will melt, that the seas will grow too warm to sustain marine life, and that violent weather patterns may result
· are the risks that the polar ice caps will melt, that the seas will grow too warm to sustain marine life, and that violent weather patterns may result
· is the risks that the polar ice caps will melt, the seas will grow too warm to sustain marine life, and that violent
weather patterns may result
· are the risks of polar ice caps melting, seas growing too warm to sustain marine life, and that violent weather
patterns may result
the sentence should have are because of the RISKS. So eliminate B and D Now look for ||ism. Only C maintains that. C is correct
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Re: Global Warming [#permalink]
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I think you just have to take the cue from the subject (the noun clause "what concern...warming") where it uses the form "concern", that the subject is plural, and therefore "are" is the correct form of the working verb. Of course parallelism in the rest of the sentence has to be maintained so C should be the right answer.
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Re: Global Warming [#permalink]
15 Sep 2010, 15:07
yangsta8 wrote: I agree with C as well. Is the question stem grammatically correct in “What concern scientists”? Shouldn’t this be “What concerns scientists” as ‘risks’ are plural. In fact if it was singular shouldn’t it be “What is a concern to scientists”.
Eg.
I have a concern.
I have concerns. A little awkward, but I think "what" in that case is referring to a plural topic—" are the risk s + list of several risks." Correct me if I'm wrong, but if "what" weren't clarified, "what" should probably be assumed as singular. Because it is clarified as plural, you can say "What concern scientists."
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Re: Global Warming [#permalink]
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abushey31 wrote: I think you just have to take the cue from the subject (the noun clause "what concern...warming") where it uses the form "concern", that the subject is plural, and therefore "are" is the correct form of the working verb. Of course parallelism in the rest of the sentence has to be maintained so C should be the right answer. Still say C, but thinking about this one again, I think the second part of the sentence (the answer choice) is actually the subject in this case. Flip the sentence around and you'll see that "are" is correct.
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Re: Global Warming [#permalink]
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I Agree with C due to parallelism
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Re: Global Warming [#permalink]
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saxenashobhit wrote: Is "What concern scientists the most" correct? Shouldn't it be "What concerns"?
Because of concern I ended up selecting between B and D..."My concern is" and "my concerns are" In this question, concern is acting as verb, and risks is plural so it should be concern not concerns. In your example "my concerns are" "my concerns" is acting as noun so to make this plural "concerns" is right one.
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Re: Global Warming [#permalink]
24 Sep 2010, 02:28
Concern made me go for is initially....but I could immediately see how wrong it was with risks..
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