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Hi, I have recently started preparing for GMAT and I am facing quite a trouble identifying the subject.

Lets consider Case 1:

The range of the ideas for solving the problem of the native people continue/continues to expand as more people with relevant expertise has become involved in the matter.
Now my question is what is the subject here? Is it the RANGE or the ideas. If I ask the question to verb When I ask What continues to expand I get the answer as Ideas are expanding . However the subject in this case is Range.


Lets consider Case 2:
An extraordinary degree of branching of blood vessels exist/exists within the human body
Now if I ask what exist/exists within the human body, I get the answer as BRANCHING.

I am really confused how to find the correct SV here

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How to identify Correct SV pair? Is it by ignoring the prepositional phrase or by asking the Who/What questions to verb?
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Hi kmehta80, One primary rule to identify a Subject-Verb in a clause is that it never resides in prepositional phrase unless we talk about about some quantity related stuff. In this scenario, range is the subject as ideas reside in prepositional phrase. It's the range of ideas that continues to expands not the ideas.
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Hi, I have recently started preparing for GMAT and I am facing quite a trouble identifying the subject.

Lets consider Case 1:

The range of the ideas for solving the problem of the native people continue/continues to expand as more people with relevant expertise has become involved in the matter.
Now my question is what is the subject here? Is it the RANGE or the ideas. If I ask the question to verb When I ask What continues to expand I get the answer as Ideas are expanding . However the subject in this case is Range.


Lets consider Case 2:
An extraordinary degree of branching of blood vessels exist/exists within the human body
Now if I ask what exist/exists within the human body, I get the answer as BRANCHING.

I am really confused how to find the correct SV here
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kmehta80 I'd like to explore how exactly you get "Ideas" when you ask "what continues to expand", and "branching" when you ask "what exists within the human body".
My guess is that you don't actually do any reasoning when trying to answer those questions.
It might feel to you that you're reasoning, but I think you might be doing something else instead.
That's why I want to further explore how specifically you come up with those answers.
Think on it a bit and let me know!
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Hi, I have recently started preparing for GMAT and I am facing quite a trouble identifying the subject.

Lets consider Case 1:

The range of the ideas for solving the problem of the native people continue/continues to expand as more people with relevant expertise has become involved in the matter.
Now my question is what is the subject here? Is it the RANGE or the ideas. If I ask the question to verb When I ask What continues to expand I get the answer as Ideas are expanding . However the subject in this case is Range.


Lets consider Case 2:
An extraordinary degree of branching of blood vessels exist/exists within the human body
Now if I ask what exist/exists within the human body, I get the answer as BRANCHING.

I am really confused how to find the correct SV here

I'd like to explore how exactly you get "Ideas" when you ask "what continues to expand", and "branching" when you ask "what exists within the human body".
My guess is that you don't actually do any reasoning when trying to answer those questions.
It might feel to you that you're reasoning, but I think you might be doing something else instead.
That's why I want to further explore how specifically you come up with those answers.
Think on it a bit and let me know!
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Thanks for your reply.
So, in scenario 1 by asking Who/What question to the verb I get the answer as The range .In scenario 2, An extraordinary degree cannot be the answer to the exists, so what exists is actually "Branching"

Please let me know the flaw in my reasoning
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Lets consider Case 1:

The range of the ideas for solving the problem of the native people continue/continues to expand as more people with relevant expertise has become involved in the matter.

Lets consider Case 2:
An extraordinary degree of branching of blood vessels exist/exists within the human body

So, in scenario 1 by asking Who/What question to the verb I get the answer as The range .In scenario 2, An extraordinary degree cannot be the answer to the exists, so what exists is actually "Branching"
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kmehta80 apologies for the delay in my response.
It seems to me that your identification of the subject in scenario 1 has improved, as in your original post you identified "ideas" as the subject, but upon further reflection you went with "the range". What do you think you did differently the second time around, that led you to identifying the correct subject?
In scenario 2, why can't we say that there exists an extraordinary degree of something?
An extraordinary degree of competition exists at HBS.
Perhaps you mean to say that "an extraordinary degree" on its own doesn't make sense - but "an extraordinary degree of branching" is fine as the subject. This is called a compound subject, and it's singular.
If you see this in the next 2 hours, I have a free YouTube Live event on using meaning for GMAT SC - would love to see you there.
https://www.youtube.com/quantreasoning/live

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