Forum Home > GMAT > Quantitative > Problem Solving (PS)
Events & Promotions
GMAT Club Daily Prep
Thank you for using the timer - this advanced tool can estimate your performance and suggest more practice questions. We have subscribed you to Daily Prep Questions via email.
Customized
for You
Track
Your Progress
Practice
Pays
Not interested in getting valuable practice questions and articles delivered to your email? No problem, unsubscribe here.
Jun 0608:00 PM PDT
-09:00 PM PDT
Full-length FE mock with insightful analytics, weakness diagnosis, and video explanations!
Jun 0712:00 PM PDT
-01:00 PM PDT
In this GMAT experience talk show, we talk to Tavishi, a young MBA aspirant from India who recently scored 725 in her latest GMAT Focus exam. It’s a 99.9 percentile score on the new GMAT Focus edition and she achieved this feat in her first GMAT attempt.
Jun 0805:30 AM PDT
-07:30 AM PDT
The Focus Edition allows barely 2 minutes per question. Hence, rereading portions of passages is not an option. Learn our Involved and Evolved reading strategy, the most efficacious solution to time saving on RC and score high on GMAT Verbal!
Jun 0811:00 AM IST
-01:00 PM IST
Attend this session to learn how to Deconstruct arguments, Pre-Think Author’s Assumptions, and apply Negation Test.
Jun 0905:30 AM PDT
-07:30 AM PDT
Ready to conquer GMAT's toughest Data Insights questions? Unlock the secrets of Graphical Interpretation & Two-Part Analysis with our expert-led webinar! Limited seats!- Jun 09
11:00 AM IST
-01:00 PM IST
Attend this session to evaluate your current skill level, learn process skills, and solve through tough Arithmetic questions - Jun 11
05:30 AM PDT
-12:00 PM PDT
Register for the GMAT Club Virtual MBA Spotlight fair, the biggest MBA fair of the year. You will have a chance to hear Admissions directors from almost every Top 20 program speak, network with peers, and more.
Whether brick-and-mortar bank locations will survive this era of onlin
[#permalink]
24 Nov 2023, 02:30
24 Nov 2023, 02:30
Expert Reply
Show timer
00:00
A
B
C
D
E
Difficulty:
25%
(medium)
Question Stats:
71% (01:00) correct
29%
(01:22)
wrong
based on 83
sessions
Whether brick-and-mortar bank locations will survive this era of online payments and digital transfers are debatable.
A. this era of online payments and digital transfers are debatable
B. in this era of online payments and digital transfers are debatable
C. is debatable in this era of online payments and digital transfers
D. this era of online payments and digital transfers are being debated
E. have been under debate in this era of online payments and digital transfers
A. this era of online payments and digital transfers are debatable
B. in this era of online payments and digital transfers are debatable
C. is debatable in this era of online payments and digital transfers
D. this era of online payments and digital transfers are being debated
E. have been under debate in this era of online payments and digital transfers
Re: Whether brick-and-mortar bank locations will survive this era of onlin
[#permalink]
24 Nov 2023, 07:43
24 Nov 2023, 07:43
1
Kudos
The answer is C.
This option correctly uses the singular verb "is" to agree with the singular subject "whether brick-and-mortar bank locations will survive." The placement of "is debatable" correctly conveys the intended meaning. This option rectifies the subject-verb agreement issue present in other options.
This option correctly uses the singular verb "is" to agree with the singular subject "whether brick-and-mortar bank locations will survive." The placement of "is debatable" correctly conveys the intended meaning. This option rectifies the subject-verb agreement issue present in other options.
Re: Whether brick-and-mortar bank locations will survive this era of onlin
[#permalink]
02 Dec 2023, 16:15
02 Dec 2023, 16:15
Expert Reply
Bunuel wrote:
Whether brick-and-mortar bank locations will survive this era of online payments and digital transfers are debatable.
A. this era of online payments and digital transfers are debatable
B. in this era of online payments and digital transfers are debatable
C. is debatable in this era of online payments and digital transfers
D. this era of online payments and digital transfers are being debated
E. have been under debate in this era of online payments and digital transfers
A. this era of online payments and digital transfers are debatable
B. in this era of online payments and digital transfers are debatable
C. is debatable in this era of online payments and digital transfers
D. this era of online payments and digital transfers are being debated
E. have been under debate in this era of online payments and digital transfers
VERITAS PREP OFFICIAL SOLUTION:
This problem comes down to one major decision point: subject-verb agreement. If you notice that choices A, B, D, and E all have plural verbs (are, are, are, and have been), and that only choice C uses the singular "is," you can quickly find the subject of the sentence. What is being debated? Whether banks will survive, and "whether" is a singular subject. Therefore you need a singular verb, and only choice C provides that.
Note that one way in which the GMAT testmaker makes subject-verb agreement difficult is in the use of "nontraditional" subjects. Here that manifests itself with "Whether banks will survive" as a subject, and in other questions it might be "however much the parties may agree" or something of that kind. Be on the lookout for situations, as opposed to classic nouns, as subjects on difficult Sentence Correction problems.
