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With a new park, stadium, and entertainment complex along the Delaware River, Trenton, New Jersey, is but one of a large number of communities that is looking to use its waterfront as a way for it to improve the quality of urban life and attract new businesses. A) is looking to use its waterfront as a way for it to improve the quality of urban life and attract B) is looking at using its waterfront to improve the quality of urban life and attract C) are looking to use their waterfronts to improve the quality of urban life and attract D) are looking to use its waterfront as a way of improving the quality of urban life and attracting E) are looking at using their waterfronts as a way of improving the quality of urban life and attract.
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amit2k9 wrote: that refers to the immediate noun before it.Here it is a plural.Hence are is correct usage.
IMO C.
I agree. Consider this simpler example: Jack is but one of the talent show performers that are planning to rehearse here tonight.Following noun modifier rules, if only Jack plans to rehearse, we'd have to move the modifier closer to him: Jack, who is planning to rehearse here tonight, is but one of the talent show performers.Even if you ignore the is/are verb split, you should still arrive at the answer C. Some of these have been mentioned above, but not the wordiness issue found in A, D, E. A) is looking to use its waterfront as a way for it to improve the quality of urban life and attract WordinessB) is looking at using its waterfront to improve the quality of urban life and attract Idiom ("looking to use X" is prefered)C) are looking to use their waterfronts to improve the quality of urban life and attract CORRECT D) are looking to use its waterfront as a way of improving the quality of urban life and attracting mismatch of are/itsWordinessE) are looking at using their waterfronts as a way of improving the quality of urban life and attract. Idiom ("looking to use X" is prefered)WordinessLack of Parallelism
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: is but one of a large number of communities that is looking to use its waterfront as a way for it to improve the quality of urban life and attract new businesses. that refers to the immediate noun before it.Here it is a plural.Hence are is correct usage. IMO C. Thank you.
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Quote: A) is looking to use its waterfront as a way for it to improve the quality of urban life and attract "is" refers to "a large number of communities", which is pluralQuote: B) is looking at using its waterfront to improve the quality of urban life and attract same here. here is classical 2:3 split. (A) and (B) are outQuote: C) are looking to use their waterfronts to improve the quality of urban life and attract Correct.Quote: D) are looking to use its waterfront as a way of improving the quality of urban life and attracting "its" refers to "a large number of communities", which is pluralQuote: E) are looking at using their waterfronts as a way of improving the quality of urban life and attract. "a way of improving.....and attract" - non-parallel
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Re: New park, stadium, and entertainment complex [#permalink]
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Im going with A. to improve and attract and "one" means it is singular
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03 Feb 2010, 00:33
Well I think whole clause "that are looking to use their waterfronts to improve the quality of urban life and attract new businesses" modifies "a number of communities", not Trenton, New Jersey.
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03 Feb 2010, 09:47
I feel that ONE is the subject, and every from "of" and on is just a modifier, making it singular. Does anyone have the OA and OE?
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Re: New park, stadium, and entertainment complex [#permalink]
03 Feb 2010, 11:52
It should be A. Trenton is looking to use. whats the OA?
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Re: New park, stadium, and entertainment complex [#permalink]
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dmetla wrote: It should be A. Trenton is looking to use. whats the OA? If a sentence contains ‘One of the A Noun (which will always be plural)’ and is followed ‘that’ or ‘who’, then the verb that follows immediately should be in plural form.
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Re: New park, stadium, and entertainment complex [#permalink]
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esledge wrote: amit2k9 wrote: that refers to the immediate noun before it.Here it is a plural.Hence are is correct usage.
IMO C.
I agree. Consider this simpler example: Jack is but one of the talent show performers that are planning to rehearse here tonight.Following noun modifier rules, if only Jack plans to rehearse, we'd have to move the modifier closer to him: Jack, who is planning to rehearse here tonight, is but one of the talent show performers.Even if you ignore the is/are verb split, you should still arrive at the answer C. Some of these have been mentioned above, but not the wordiness issue found in A, D, E. A) is looking to use its waterfront as a way for it to improve the quality of urban life and attract WordinessB) is looking at using its waterfront to improve the quality of urban life and attract Idiom ("looking to use X" is prefered)C) are looking to use their waterfronts to improve the quality of urban life and attract CORRECT D) are looking to use its waterfront as a way of improving the quality of urban life and attracting mismatch of are/itsWordinessE) are looking at using their waterfronts as a way of improving the quality of urban life and attract. Idiom ("looking to use X" is prefered)WordinessLack of ParallelismWhat is the significance of putting 'but' in Jack is but one of the talent show performers that are planning to rehearse here tonight.. How does the meaning change if 'but' is omitted.---> Jack is one of the talent show performers that are planning to rehearse here tonight.Also, is this correct? Jack is one of the talent show performers who are planning to rehearse here tonight.
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saxenaashi wrote: What is the significance of putting 'but' in Jack is but one of the talent show performers that are planning to rehearse here tonight..
How does the meaning change if 'but' is omitted.---> Jack is one of the talent show performers that are planning to rehearse here tonight.
Also, is this correct? Jack is one of the talent show performers who are planning to rehearse here tonight. Hi saxenaashi, The usage of "but one" in your sentence expresses that Jack is the "only one" of the talent show performers who are planning ........ For example: There is but one God. <-- Means that there is "just one" god or there is "only one" god If we drop the "but" in your sentence then it would express that apart from Jack there could be other performers who are planning...... By the way using "that" would be less preferable in GMAT prefers the usage of who for humans. So the correct sentence would be " .. one of the performers who..." saxenaashi wrote: Also, is this correct? Jack is one of the talent show performers who are planning to rehearse here tonight. --> Yes this is correct the relative clause "who are performing...." is modifying the performers and Jack is one of them. Hope that helps, Vercules
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