Hi
GMATNinjaMay be, here i am asking a v stupid question, but i would request you to address the doubt:
Below two are the correct
OG questions. In both of these questions, a participle is modifying the subject, and subject is dictating the verb correctly.
OG12 SC12:
Rising inventories, if not accompanied by corresponding increases in sales,
can lead to production cutbacks that would hamper economic growth.
OG11 SC22:: The end of the eighteenth century saw the emergence of
prize-stock breeding, with individual bulls and cows receiving awards, fetching unprecedented prices, and exciting enormous interest whenever
they were put on show.
Similarly, in the below example, ''VANISHING'' should modify the subject ''THE SANDPIPER'', which is dictating the verb''IS''
That way, ''The Sandpiper'' should be parallel to ''Grassy fields and old pastures''
Like the grassy fields and old pastures that the upland sandpiper needs for feeding and nesting when it returns in May after wintering in the Argentine Pampas,
the sandpipers vanishing in the northeastern United States is a result of residential and industrial development and of changes in farming practices.
Thanks
ASHUTOSH
If you treat "vanishing" as a modifier in choice (A), then the subject ("sandpipers") is plural --- that means we have a subject-verb agreement issue, since "is" is singular.
, "vanishing" can't be the subject because "sandpipers" isn't possessive.
So there's no way around the subject-verb agreement error in (A).