Among the emotions on display in the negotiating room were
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13 Mar 2021, 21:16
Here is my understanding on this:
Pls dont be concerned about inversion or anything else. Lets just try to understand the question with example.
Question: Among the emotions on display in the negotiating room were anger for repeatedly raising the issue over and over again and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles from ever beginning to heal.
When do we use among? When we are referring a group, if we need to compare only two things, we use BETWEEN.
Now, when we use among, but only pointing out one thing from the group, it becomes singular.
Eg: 1) Among all the things, this is the thing which is my favorite.
2) Among all the members in the team, John is the one who is the strongest. (Taking only one thing/object from the list)
3) Among all the members in the team, John and Wick are the smartest. (Taking two things/object/person from the list)
Now, lets take the options one by one:
(A) were anger for repeatedly raising the issue over and over again and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles from ever beginning to heal.
- As explained above, there is only one emotion that is talked about, so use of WERE is not correct. Also, repeatedly and over and over again, means the same thing. Eliminate this.
(B) was anger for repeatedly raising the issue and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles from ever beginning to heal
- one thing is used - so use of WAS is correct. Also, note that there is AND and this is connecting two things, which needs to be parallel. This looks fine - repeatedly raising the issue and preventing the raw wounds.
So, lets keep this option.
(C) were anger over repeatedly raising the issue and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles to begin healing
- Eliminate this for using WERE
(D) was anger about the issue, which was raised over and over, and preventing the wounds from earlier battles, still raw, to begin healing
- Use of WAS makes sense, but the parallelism is lost.
(E) were anger about the issue, which was raised repeatedly, and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles to begin to heal
- Eliminate this for using WERE (error as explained above)
So, the only option that we are left with is B, which is the correct ans.
Hope this helps