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Well, I really think the answer is A. Yes, It mentions "Stockbrokers" but the sentence is actually referring to "any of the Stockbrokers" which is singular.
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Plz clearify my doubt..Is "disapproves of" correct or it should be "disapproval of"?

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Hello!

Chetan2u has already provided the answer and the explanation.
The answer is B.

Yes, "any" is singular by itself but it depends from the following noun.
Look at this example.
One of the students is going to speak.
But.
One of the students that are present is going to speak.
So, in our case it is practically the same.
Any of stockholders who disapprove


Any of stockholders who disapproves of the management-endorsed state of candidates may offer an alternative state under procedures wstablished by the SEC.

A. who disapproves
B. who disapprove
C. that are disapproving
D. that do not approve
E. who are not in approval
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Plz clearify my doubt..Is "disapproves of" correct or it should be "disapproval of"?

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It will depend on the context..
Who-Should be followed by VERB so disapprove is correct.
If you required a NOUN disapproval would be correct.
After the approval/disapproval of the managing committee, the coach was sacked.
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For SANAM,i.e some,all,none,any & many, the word following the prepositions will become the subject.

Like in this example "Any of stockholders who" , after any we have of and word following this is stockholders. so, stockholders will become the subject and since it is plural therefore we can use disapprove

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Plz clearify my doubt..Is "disapproves of" correct or it should be "disapproval of"?

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I find it confusing too... thus cannot find why E is wrong


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GMATNinja how come (E) is wrong here?
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GMATNinja how come (E) is wrong here?
Full disclosure: I have about 60 questions in my inbox that I'm itching to answer, but I picked on this one first because... go Eagles! (For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about: the Super Bowl is tomorrow, and the evil empire Patriots are playing the Philadelphia Eagles. So if PhillyKid has a question, I'm all over it today. Welcome to GMAT Club, PhillyKid! Seriously one of my favorite cities in the U.S.)

I hate to say this, but the question itself is such a hot mess that I don't think anybody should be paying any attention to it at all. I mean, check this out again:

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Any of stockholders who disapproves of the management-endorsed state of candidates may offer an alternative state under procedures wstablished by the SEC.
"Any of stockholders" isn't really English, and neither is the word "wstablished." And those aren't even in the underlined portion.

Many of you have heard me say this a billion times, but the GMAT spends between $1500 and $3000 developing every question, and even the best test-prep companies can't compete. And I have no idea where this particular disaster of a question came from.

So please don't waste any more of your time and energy on this thing! If you're in the U.S., spend some time making a killer guacamole instead, because it's almost Super Bowl Sunday, and we have some serious eating to do... :)
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