Viewers of our morning talk show have often turned on

Hi vabhs192003, I will provide my 2 cents on the OA.

1. Viewers of our morning talk show have often turned - This is in the present perfect tense, and this means action is still going on.
2. Generally words such as who, whom, where, which modify the preceding noun. In Opinions A,B and C - This modifies program, but the intention is to modify guests.
So A,B and C are eliminated.

Coming to D and E. D uses "SAW" which is simple past. But the first part says that the action is still happening. So E is the OA.
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I solved it like this :

Have must have 3rd form of the verb. So, A, B and D are out as they are using the 2nd form of the verb.

Out of C and E now,

In C, who illogically modify program. Remember who MUST be used to modify People. So, C is out.

hence, E.
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From proofreading.ie website:

Saw is the PAST TENSE of the verb see, and usually comes immediately after NOUNS and PRONOUNS.

USAGE: saw : This word is a stand-alone VERB.

Seen is the PAST PARTICIPLE of the VERB see.
Generally, seen is used alongside have, has, had, was or were in a sentence to make COMPOUND VERBS.

1st split:

Pronoun's means Noun + IS.

Who's .... is wrong in this context.

A B C are out.

Have often turned on ... and (have) seen .....

D is out.

E wins.

I got correct, but still I haven't got proper knowledge of the usage of "with" grammatically. Any source recommended?

A, B & D are eliminated, because of wrong usage of verb "saw".
in C & E, "who's" is referring to fenetic guests as well as viewers, which creates ambiguity.

On the other side
frenetic guests ranting on the program, who's opinions have ranged
who's is referring to the adjacent personal noun which is frenetic guests

experts please shed some light
GMATNinja EMPOWERgmatVerbal egmat ExpertsGlobal5 KyleWiddison ScottTargetTestPrep KarishmaB

Hey hrusher

Happy to help you with this.


The problem with choice C is the use of "who's".

Who's = Who is

In other words, "who's" is the contraction of "who is", and must not be mistaken for "whose" (the possessive form of 'who').

This leads to automatic elimination of choice C. There's no question of what it refers to.


Hope this helps.

Best,

Abhishek
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Viewers have often turned on the TV and saw guests ranting ...
Both verbs should be in the same tense since they are talking about the same event at the same time.

Viewers have often turned on the TV ... and ...
Viewers have often seen guests ranting ...

We cannot use the simple past 'saw' here.

And as egmat mentioned above, who's is short for 'who is.' Put that in the sentence and see if it makes sense.

Viewers have often turned on the television and seen frenetic guests ranting on the program, who is opinions range from controversial to absurd.

Makes no sense, right? We use the relative pronoun 'whose' here to show possession.
... frenetic guests, whose opinion range from ...
Now, "whose opinions" refers to "guests' opinions."
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Thanks Abhishek egmat KarishmaB