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by kiranlegend » Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:51 am
Out of the public's interest in details of and conflicts in other people's lives have grown a booming market for "reality" television shows that are bringing "regular" people onto the television screen with increasing frequency.

(a) other people's lives have grown a booming market for "reality" television shows that are bringing

(b) other people's lives has grown a booming market for "reality" television shows that are bringing

(c) another person's life has grown a booming market for "reality" television shows that is bringing

(d) other people's lives has grown a booming market for "reality" television shows that is bringing

(e) other people's lives has grown a booming market for "reality" television shows that bring
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by Aldiablo » Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:11 am
IMO B
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by mutuslick » Wed Jul 23, 2008 8:57 pm
IMO E

public's interest - is singular and "television shows that" is plural, so

B or E. I prefered E

What is OA?
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by reachac » Wed Jul 23, 2008 9:01 pm
IMO D
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by sibbineni » Thu Jul 24, 2008 3:57 pm
IMO D
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by ildude02 » Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:22 pm
B is my pick.
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by krishnaraju » Sat Jul 26, 2008 6:34 pm
Interest..Has n Booming market is...so I go with D
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by Mahalo » Sun Jul 27, 2008 4:23 pm
"other people's lives has grown a booming market" is correct - eliminate (A) and (C).

(B) "television shows that are bringing"
(D) "television shows that is bringing" - incorrect
(E) "television shows that bring" - concise

Hence (E)
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by umaa » Sun Jul 27, 2008 8:04 pm
IMO E.

OA Pls.
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by adilka » Sat Jan 10, 2009 11:41 am
First off... source: Kaplan 800

Second: As I can see from this thread the question is poorly worded.
I also was choosing between B and E, since I read the sentence as shows are the ones that are bringing (or bring) as opposed to the market (is bringing).
It would make more sense to me that the shows would bring people vs. the market
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Re: television shows

by logitech » Sat Jan 10, 2009 12:18 pm
We need HAS not HAVE for the subject public's interest
another person's is SINGULAR ( I guess ) so Adios C

MARKET for "reality" television shows that is/are

ORANGE part is a modifier for MARKET and we should go with IS

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Re: television shows

by adilka » Sat Jan 10, 2009 2:12 pm
logitech wrote:We need HAS not HAVE for the subject public's interest
another person's is SINGULAR ( I guess ) so Adios C
MARKET for "reality" television shows that is/are
ORANGE part is a modifier for MARKET and we should go with IS

Choose D
Perhaps... But I still think that B and E are not 100% excludable (i know there isn't such a word) because the modifier cab be this:
a booming market for "reality" television shows that are bringing "regular" people onto the television screen with increasing frequency.
There's nothing grammatically incorrect here. This modifier and the one Logitech suggests both have the same changes of being implied by the author (there's no info that I can see that would favour one over the other)
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