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With the stock price declining rapidly, analysts had to decide whether problems in the fundamentals of the company or simply a brief hysteria among market participants were driving the price downward.
(A) With the stock price declining rapidly, analysts had to decide whether problems in the fundamentals of the company or simply a brief hysteria among market participants were driving the price downward.
(B) The stock price was declining rapidly, so analysts had to decide if problems in the fundamentals of the company, as opposed to simply a brief hysteria among market participants, was the cause of the downward price movement.
(C) The stock price was declining rapidly, so analysts had to decide if problems in the fundamentals of the company or simply a brief hysteria among market participants were the cause of the downward price movement.
(D) With the stock price declining rapidly, analysts had to decide whether problems in the fundamentals of the company or simply a brief hysteria among market participants was driving the price downward.
(E) With the stock’s rapid price decline, analysts had to decide if problems in the fundamentals of the company or simply a brief hysteria among market participants were driving the price downward.
(A) With the stock price declining rapidly, analysts had to decide whether problems in the fundamentals of the company or simply a brief hysteria among market participants were driving the price downward.
(B) The stock price was declining rapidly, so analysts had to decide if problems in the fundamentals of the company, as opposed to simply a brief hysteria among market participants, was the cause of the downward price movement.
(C) The stock price was declining rapidly, so analysts had to decide if problems in the fundamentals of the company or simply a brief hysteria among market participants were the cause of the downward price movement.
(D) With the stock price declining rapidly, analysts had to decide whether problems in the fundamentals of the company or simply a brief hysteria among market participants was driving the price downward.
(E) With the stock’s rapid price decline, analysts had to decide if problems in the fundamentals of the company or simply a brief hysteria among market participants were driving the price downward.
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VERITAS PREP OFFICIAL SOLUTION:
The operative decision point in this problem is one of Subject-Verb Agreement. When a sentence includes an either...or or a neither...nor construction, the noun that comes after (n)or is the one that controls the singularity/plurality of the verb.
Here, choices A, C, D, and E each use an "either...or" construction with "simply a brief hysteria" (singular) following the "or." Because choices A, C, and E each use "were" instead of "was" they are all incorrect.
Choice B also commits an agreement error. By replacing "either...or" with the modifier "as opposed to a brief hysteria" this sentence uses the plural "problems in the fundamentals of the company" as the subject. Therefore, the singular "was" is incorrect in choice B.
Choice D features proper Subject-Verb Agreement and is therefore correct.
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