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12 Sep 2019, 22:11
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Among the most curious visual elements in Duchamp's Large Glass are a series of shapes resembling a skull with misplaced ears and a long, insect-like line stretching almost as far as the horizon between the Bride's domain and that of the bachelors'
(A) are a series of shapes resembling a skull with misplaced ears and a long, insect-like line stretching almost as far as the horizon between the Bride's domain and that of the bachelors'
(B) is a series of shapes resembling a skull with misplaced ears, and a long insect-like line stretching almost as far as the horizon between the Bride's domain and that of the bachelors
(C) are a series of shapes resembling a skull with misplaced ears as well as a long, insect-like line that stretches almost as far as the horizon between the Bride's domain and the bachelors'
(D) is a series of shapes resembling a skull with misplaced ears, as well as a long, insect-like line stretching almost as far as the horizon between the domain of the Bride and that of the bachelors
(E) are a series of shapes that resembles a skull with misplaced ears, and a long, insect-like line stretching almost as far as the horizon between the Bride's domain and the bachelors
(A) are a series of shapes resembling a skull with misplaced ears and a long, insect-like line stretching almost as far as the horizon between the Bride's domain and that of the bachelors'
(B) is a series of shapes resembling a skull with misplaced ears, and a long insect-like line stretching almost as far as the horizon between the Bride's domain and that of the bachelors
(C) are a series of shapes resembling a skull with misplaced ears as well as a long, insect-like line that stretches almost as far as the horizon between the Bride's domain and the bachelors'
(D) is a series of shapes resembling a skull with misplaced ears, as well as a long, insect-like line stretching almost as far as the horizon between the domain of the Bride and that of the bachelors
(E) are a series of shapes that resembles a skull with misplaced ears, and a long, insect-like line stretching almost as far as the horizon between the Bride's domain and the bachelors
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12 Sep 2019, 22:34
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so the following sentence has two errors:
1) subject verb
2) comparison and parallelism
1)the verb "are" refers to series of shapes which is singular. therefore should be "is"
2)between the Bride's domain and that of the bachelors'--- this phrase essentially means birdies domain and birdies domain of the bachelors-- which is wrong
therefore it should be D.
but usually in the gmat they don't use . as well as in the correct options it's mostly just "and".
1) subject verb
2) comparison and parallelism
1)the verb "are" refers to series of shapes which is singular. therefore should be "is"
2)between the Bride's domain and that of the bachelors'--- this phrase essentially means birdies domain and birdies domain of the bachelors-- which is wrong
therefore it should be D.
but usually in the gmat they don't use . as well as in the correct options it's mostly just "and".
13 Sep 2019, 23:42
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This is a good question. It is not testing only Subject verb agreement.
If you are eliminating A because of 'are' then you are wrong. The usage of 'are' is completely correct in A. There are 2 subjects in A combined with 'and' - series of shapes and a long insect line line combined with 'and' . So it needs a plural verb 'are' . B uses 'is' as the verb and therefore it is out.
D also uses 'is' , but most of the people who eliminated D did not notice that 'and' is replaced by 'as well as' in D. As well as additive does not add to the subject, so in this case the verb should be singular i.e. 'Is' . So Let's keep D for now.
C uses 'are' but introduces new error by replacing 'and' with 'as well as' . For that reason C is out.
A and E use correct verbs but they have a different problem. In A the usage of that of the bachelors' is totally incorrect. It basically mean "that of a bachelors' domain". What does that refer to? For this reason A is out.
E has a similar problem. It says between bride's domain and bachelors. This would have been correct if it said bride's domain and bachelors' domain. For that reason E is out.
Hence, D is our answer.
If you only use vertical scanning, you will eliminate D because of "is" and select C. So make sure you review the entire sentence before selecting the answer.
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If you are eliminating A because of 'are' then you are wrong. The usage of 'are' is completely correct in A. There are 2 subjects in A combined with 'and' - series of shapes and a long insect line line combined with 'and' . So it needs a plural verb 'are' . B uses 'is' as the verb and therefore it is out.
D also uses 'is' , but most of the people who eliminated D did not notice that 'and' is replaced by 'as well as' in D. As well as additive does not add to the subject, so in this case the verb should be singular i.e. 'Is' . So Let's keep D for now.
C uses 'are' but introduces new error by replacing 'and' with 'as well as' . For that reason C is out.
A and E use correct verbs but they have a different problem. In A the usage of that of the bachelors' is totally incorrect. It basically mean "that of a bachelors' domain". What does that refer to? For this reason A is out.
E has a similar problem. It says between bride's domain and bachelors. This would have been correct if it said bride's domain and bachelors' domain. For that reason E is out.
Hence, D is our answer.
If you only use vertical scanning, you will eliminate D because of "is" and select C. So make sure you review the entire sentence before selecting the answer.
Kudos if this helped you.
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