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The administration has increased the number of fines for mining safety violations as part of their campaign to protect miners.

A) has increased the number of fines for mining safety violations as part of their
B) have increased the number of fines for mining safety violations as part of their
C) has increased the number of fines for mining safety violations as part of its
D) has increased the amount of fines for mining safety violations as part of its
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D ?
Subject Verb Agreement issues
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C. There is no issue of subjunctive.

"Number" for plural "fines" and "its" for The administrataion".



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The administration has increased the number of fines for mining safety violations as part of their campaign to protect miners.

A) has increased the number of fines for mining safety violations as part of their
B) have increased the number of fines for mining safety violations as part of their
C) has increased the number of fines for mining safety violations as part of its
D) has increased the amount of fines for mining safety violations as part of its
E) have increased the amount of fines for mining safety violations as part of their
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Hi mates,

IMO C

Clearly, the right answer should be between C and D (administration is singular, therefore " has" and "its" are required)

Now, between "the number" and "the amount", I'd go with the first one

Can somebody post the grammar associated to "the number" and "the amount"?

OA and Source?

@GMAT TIGER: why do you think "amount" is wrong?

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I missed the point.

Amount of fine --> OK
Number of fines --> OK
Amount of fines --> NOK

It should be C
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The administration has increased the number of fines for mining safety violations as part of their campaign to protect miners.

A) has increased the number of fines for mining safety violations as part of their - their is wrong
B) have increased the number of fines for mining safety violations as part of their - have is wrongC) has increased the number of fines for mining safety violations as part of its - hold on
D) has increased the amount of fines for mining safety violations as part of its - hold on
E) have increased the amount of fines for mining safety violations as part of their
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- have is wrong

out of C and D....C says number of fines which is equal to number of receipts.....and D says amount of fines which won't be equal to amount of receipts....stimuli talks about the number of fines and not amount therefore D out, C wins.
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GMAT TIGER: why do you think "amount" is wrong?

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"fines" is plural not an un-count noun. So with plural noun, number fits properly..
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"fines" is plural not an un-count noun. So with plural noun, number fits properly..
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That's correct

But what if they increased fine1 and fine2? then amount of fines is also appropriate right?

How ever, the key is to realize that they are not testing fine vs fines and so it seems that they are talking about the number of fines.
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Agree with icandy. For the same reason I chose D assuming that amount has been increased for various kind of fines. Otherwise C is good.
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What is the source of this question?

Even though I agree with OA but X has increased "number of fines" blah blah blah...sounds absurd.
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+ 1 for C, 'the number' for FINES and its for administration
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The administration has increased the number of fines for mining safety violations as part of their campaign to protect miners.

A) has increased the number of fines for mining safety violations as part of their
B) have increased the number of fines for mining safety violations as part of their
C) has increased the number of fines for mining safety violations as part of its
D) has increased the amount of fines for mining safety violations as part of its
E) have increased the amount of fines for mining safety violations as part of their
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C correctly identifies subect verb issues. Also "fines" is a countable noun, hence "number of" is correct.



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