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A NY time articles started me off on this. The sentence reads as follows :

Yet after weeks of allegations of graft and financial malfeasance, the resignation of a government minister and the suspension of the league’s charismatic commissioner, the league has become emblematic of something else: how much the old and often corrupt political and business elite still dominates the country.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/11/world ... lobal-home

Should the verb be 'dominate' not 'dominates' ?

Usage of "dominates" is correct..>>> "How much" means the "extent"...
Here dominates modifies the "extent"

So in simple terms..."the extent up to which...X and Y ....dominates"
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Initially I too thought on the same lines but was not confident to write my opinion....:(

your explanation makes sense.
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A NY time articles started me off on this. The sentence reads as follows :

Yet after weeks of allegations of graft and financial malfeasance, the resignation of a government minister and the suspension of the league’s charismatic commissioner, the league has become emblematic of something else: how much the old and often corrupt political and business elite still dominates the country.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/11/world ... lobal-home

Should the verb be 'dominate' not 'dominates' ?

Usage of "dominates" is correct..>>> "How much" means the "extent"...
Here dominates modifies the "extent"

So in simple terms..."the extent up to which...X and Y ....dominates"

I am not sure about this explanation. How can 'the extent' be the subject for the verb 'dominate' ? Only people (the elite) can 'dominate' and hence elite should be the subject for the verb.
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I agree by nverma , dominates is right here.



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