Planting all these seeds is more involved than I thought.

Question

Can somebody explain if the above sentence has any errors?

crick20002002 · Answer

In my humbler opinion

Planting all these seeds is more involved than I thought.

should be reworded to

Planting all these seeds is more  involving  than I thought.

With respect to S-V agreement, "is" is correct verb, as it is used for Planting (which is singular).

Crick

onorenhjin · Answer

more "involving" should be used.

yogesh861 · Answer

there is no error with the sentence.
clauses are always singular

viks4gmat · Answer

yup... planting is singular... planting is more involving!! so i too feel the original sentence is correct

andih · Answer

Hello,

I was just doing this problem in the MGMAT book and, as a non-native speaker, am really struggling with it.

The answer says: "Planting all these seeds is more involved than I thought"

To me, this sentence doesn't make any sense. First, what do they mean with "...is more involved" -> involves more work then thought? Second, that's how I'd have done it:

"Planting all these seeds involves more than I thought" -> is this right, wrong?

Thanks in advance,

Andreas

autr · Answer

Isn't this the correct version ? :

Planting all these seeds is more involved than I thought  it is .

LeonHsu · Answer

In my opinion, "Planting all these seeds involves more than I thought" is not that right. Because  than  should be followed by noun. Maybe the correct version is 
Planting all these seeds involves more than my expectation.
or
Planting all these seeds is more involving than I thought.

Planting all these seeds is more involved than I thought.

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