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The Russian government, in response to the actions of an [#permalink] New post   12 Nov 2012, 02:50
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The Russian government, in response to the actions of an American adoptive mother who sent her adopted son back to Russia, may demand that an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; some argue that such actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(A) may demand that an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; some argue that such actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(B) may demand an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; some argue that such actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(C) may demand that an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture, and actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(D) may demand that an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; actions that could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(E) may demand that an American adoptive parent provides his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; some argue that such actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.
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Re: The Russian government, in response... [#permalink] New post   12 Nov 2012, 04:32
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This is essentially a test of the use of the command subjunctive



(A) may demand that an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; some argue that such actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest. ----- Correct choice with the template demand, the connector that and the base form of the verb ‘provide’

(B) may demand an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; some argue that such actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest. ------ ---That --- is missing

(C) may demand that an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture, and actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest. --- child’s Russian language and culture, and actions--- depicts actions as part of the childs’ doings.

(D) may demand that an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; actions that could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest. ---The intervening semi colon is wrong. What follows the semi colon is not an IC

(E) may demand that an American adoptive parent provides his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; some argue that such actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest. ----present tense form of the verb --- provides --- is wrong in a command subjunctive
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Re: The Russian government, in response to the actions of an [#permalink] New post   15 Mar 2013, 12:41
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Probably a stupid query but nonetheless ....

Isn't "American adoptive parent" a singular subject?


That's really true subjunctive verb must always have plural verb.
But i would like to point out that had the subjunctive not used it would have been "Provides" because parent is singular.
Parents is plural
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Re: The Russian government, in response to the actions of an [#permalink] New post   15 Mar 2013, 06:48
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Probably a stupid query but nonetheless ....

Isn't "American adoptive parent" a singular subject?
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Re: The Russian government, in response to the actions of an [#permalink] New post   15 Mar 2013, 12:23
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summer101 wrote:
Probably a stupid query but nonetheless ....

Isn't "American adoptive parent" a singular subject?


Remember a rule "subjunctive verb is always plural"
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Re: The Russian government, in response to the actions of an [#permalink] New post   15 Mar 2013, 12:45
summer101 wrote:
Probably a stupid query but nonetheless ....

Isn't "American adoptive parent" a singular subject?


May demand - necessitates use of subjunctive verb (bossy verbs). In this case we need to use plural form of verb.
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Re: The Russian government, in response to the actions of an [#permalink] New post   06 Jun 2013, 19:22
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The Russian government, in response to the actions of an American adoptive mother who sent her adopted son back to Russia, may demand that an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; some argue that such actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(A) may demand that an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; some argue that such actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(B) may demand an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; some argue that such actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(C) may demand that an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture, and actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(D) may demand that an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; actions that could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(E) may demand that an American adoptive parent provides his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; some argue that such actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.


Good question, testing multiple topics at a go. 1st i notice semi-colons. Now both left and right parts to a semi-colon must be independent clauses. This eliminates D. In C 'and' is incorrectly use. The parallelism is violated here. Actions is acting as action noun whereas Demand is an action verb. Now in E parents provides in incorrect as parent is singular. Gone.

Now Between A and B. A wins out as demand is a Bossy verb that requires command subjunctive.

Hope it helps!
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Re: The Russian government, in response to the actions of an [#permalink] New post   07 Jun 2013, 04:49
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The Russian government, in response to the actions of an American adoptive mother who sent her adopted son back to Russia, may demand that an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; some argue that such actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(A) may demand that an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; some argue that such actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(B) may demand an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; some argue that such actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(C) may demand that an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture, and actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(D) may demand that an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; actions that could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(E) may demand that an American adoptive parent provides his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; some argue that such actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.


Good question, testing multiple topics at a go. 1st i notice semi-colons. Now both left and right parts to a semi-colon must be independent clauses. This eliminates D. In C 'and' is incorrectly use. The parallelism is violated here. Actions is acting as action noun whereas Demand is an action verb. Now in E parents provides in incorrect as parent is singular. Gone.

Now Between A and B. A wins out as demand is a Bossy verb that requires command subjunctive.

Hope it helps!



I think that the coloured portion is wrong ...
Singular will agree with provides only.

In this case, the subject is subjunctive and hence plural, hence E is incorrect.
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Re: The Russian government, in response to the actions of an [#permalink] New post   15 Nov 2013, 13:13
Is use of semi-colon in option (A) correct?, because the second clause doesn`t seem to stand independent
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Re: The Russian government, in response to the actions of an [#permalink] New post   18 Nov 2013, 10:27
Nah! It has a subject and a verb, it should be fine :lol:

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Is use of semi-colon in option (A) correct?, because the second clause doesn`t seem to stand independent
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If ever you see a subjunctive verb (e.g demand, promote, order etc), you should use the base form of the verb. Remember this!
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Re: The Russian government, in response to the actions of an [#permalink] New post   14 Mar 2017, 04:27
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The Russian government, in response to the actions of an American adoptive mother who sent her adopted son back to Russia, may demand that an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; some argue that such actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(A) may demand that an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; some argue that such actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(B) may demand an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; some argue that such actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(C) may demand that an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture, and actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(D) may demand that an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; actions that could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(E) may demand that an American adoptive parent provides his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; some argue that such actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.
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Re: The Russian government, in response to the actions of an [#permalink] New post   04 Aug 2017, 09:01
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If ever you see a subjunctive verb (e.g demand, promote, order etc), you should use the base form of the verb. Remember this!


I hope you are talking only about PRESENT Subjunctive....
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Re: The Russian government, in response to the actions of an [#permalink] New post   13 Aug 2017, 01:35
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The Russian government, in response to the actions of an American adoptive mother who sent her adopted son back to Russia, may demand that an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; some argue that such actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(A) may demand that an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; some argue that such actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(B) may demand an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; some argue that such actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(C) may demand that an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture, and actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(D) may demand that an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; actions that could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(E) may demand that an American adoptive parent provides his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; some argue that such actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.


A is the correct answer. D may be tempting but the part after ";" make it awkward and incorrect.
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Re: The Russian government, in response to the actions of an [#permalink] New post   19 Jan 2018, 00:23
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The Russian government, in response to the actions of an American adoptive mother who sent her adopted son back to Russia, may demand that an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; some argue that such actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(A) may demand that an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; some argue that such actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(B) may demand an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; some argue that such actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(C) may demand that an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture, and actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(D) may demand that an American adoptive parent provide his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; actions that could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

(E) may demand that an American adoptive parent provides his or her child with an environment that preserves the child’s Russian language and culture; some argue that such actions could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.


Hi Abhimahna,
Demand is a bossy word. But we have may demand in the sentence, which means a likelihood to demand. So, even in such scenarios, do we need to use the rule of subjunctive. I chose E instead of A because I thought that may demand does not sound bossy or fall under the subjunctive rule.
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The Russian government, in response to the actions of an [#permalink] New post   06 Dec 2019, 22:13
anyone know why (d) after ; is not an Independnet clause?
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after; actions that could sacrifice children's lives to a phantom national interest.

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anyone know why (d) after ; is not an Independnet clause?

That is just a noun phrase starting with the noun 'actions' and then a subordinate modifier clause, because it starts with a subject 'that' and a verb 'could sacrifice'. Please appreciate that the insertion of the word 'that' renders the whole a clause a DC and there is no independent clause(IC) after the semi colon; If you remove the word ' that' from the phrase, the clause then will be an free standing IC
GMAT SC tests all the sentence types that we use such as simple , complex , compound and compound-complex sentences , as also the essentials of various clauses such as independent clauses, dependent clauses, relative clauses, and substantive clauses and phrases that are used as appositives, absolutes adverbial and adjectives. One should be thorough with them as we start the preparations.
One small tip here: if you want to know all those factors and their usage, then read RC passages calmly. It will help RC, SC, and AWA
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Re: The Russian government, in response to the actions of an [#permalink] New post   16 Apr 2020, 01:59
what is subjunctive verb? can anyone help me with it?
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Re: The Russian government, in response to the actions of an [#permalink] New post   17 Apr 2020, 00:31
How can I identify whether this is subjunctive? With the use of "demand".
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Re: The Russian government, in response to the actions of an [#permalink] New post   07 May 2020, 09:18
i am between A and B, can u provide me with explanation what is the difference in meaning between that in option A and no "that " in option B
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