The Active Trader evening workshops, an intermediate course

Question

The Active Trader evening workshops, an intermediate course   for risk-tolerant investors and essential as a step in preparation for a career in securities trading, introduces   recent college graduates to a broad spectrum of investment strategies capitalizing on intraday price volatility.

A) for risk-tolerant investors and essential as a step in preparation for a career in securities trading, introduces
 B) for investors, which are risk-tolerant, and an essential step in preparation for a career in securities trading, introduce
 C) for risk-tolerant investors and an essential step in preparation for a career in securities trading, introduces
 D) for risk-tolerant investors and an essential step in preparation for a career in securities trading, introduce
 E) in securities trading and an essential step in preparation for a career of risk-tolerate investors, introduce

Please explain your answers

icandy · Answer

K. I see a good agreement on D.

why do you guys think  The Active Trader evening workshops  is plural? Does the next word  an intermediate course  has no effect what so ever on the plurality or singularity. (or) Was I just over thinking? I reasoned that it is a course and hence singular. A series of workshops together called a course. I guess I got this wrong because I lost track of what is the subject. Subject clearly is ATW's.

ventivish · Answer

This would be C

Is the OA D? Because I understood The ATW as being singular!!well because the statement is followed by an...

amitdgr · Answer

I picked D, assuming workshops is plural ... but  "an intermediate course .. "  is a put off ... I hope this is not an Official question ...

selvae · Answer

i will go for D.

it is a subject verb aggrement. Introduce should agree with Workshops. Also it is workshop which introduce college graduates to a broad spectrum of investment strategies capitalizing on intraday price volatility

FN · Answer

The Active Trader evening workshops, an intermediate course...introduce S  i think this is a singular object so we should use introduceS..

I will go with C..

GMAT TIGER · Answer

D is correct as the subject is "The Active Trader evening workshops", which is plural. 
If the subject were "The Active Trader of evening workshops", then it would be singular.

LiveStronger · Answer

I intially thought it to be D, but after icandy's post and looking at " The Active Trader evening workshops, an intermediate course' again, ATEWs seems to require a singular verb :roll:

What is the OA

icandy · Answer

OA is D as per MGMAT and it is really weird that they did not care to offer an explanation in their OE

(C) While this answer avoids the original modifier error, it fails to correct the original problem with subject-verb agreement. The plural subject “workshops” does not agree with the singular verb “introduces.”

(D) CORRECT. This answer choice corrects the original inconsistency in modifiers by supplying the appropriate modifier “an essential step” that parallels the previously introduced modifier “an intermediate course.” The plural verb “introduce” agrees with the plural subject “workshops.” Finally, this answer choice uses the concise and direct construction "risk-tolerant investors."

GMAT TIGER · Answer

I DIDNOT READ YOUR POST. I fully agree with what you are saying.

Now it needs to be corrected. Do you have a link to this question on the MANHATTAN GMAT forum?

FN · Answer

i understood active trading workshops as the name of the course..

this question is definitely bad..

reply2spg · Answer

IMO D.....I guess this is really a ticky question...and do we really expect these question in GMAT? GOD!!!!!

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