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by brb588 » Sun Jan 04, 2009 4:14 pm
Creates.

One combined with 2 is three.
One combined with 2 creates three.
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by awilhelm » Sun Jan 04, 2009 4:48 pm
I'm not sure your example makes sense. Take the following sentence, for example:

"His strength combined with his coordination make (or makes) him a fierce competitor."

"make" or "makes"?
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by ronniecoleman » Sun Jan 04, 2009 9:03 pm
awilhelm wrote:I'm not sure your example makes sense. Take the following sentence, for example:

"His strength combined with his coordination make (or makes) him a fierce competitor."

"make" or "makes"?
probably we need to use the rules for verb subject agrrement...

combined with x can be treated as a middlestuff.. so could be removed

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by brb588 » Sun Jan 04, 2009 10:25 pm
awilhelm wrote:I'm not sure your example makes sense. Take the following sentence, for example:

"His strength combined with his coordination make (or makes) him a fierce competitor."

"make" or "makes"?
Makes. Strength makes him a fierce competitor. If the word was "strengths," it would be plural. I'm thinking that "with..." creates a preposition, making it a modifier, and not part of the subject itself.
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by goelmohit2002 » Mon Jan 05, 2009 12:19 am
IMO it will depend on the order of X.

As per Manhattan GMAT...only case when two subjects combined together become plural is when they are combined with additive clause "AND"...else the verb is governed by the order of X. Verb IMO is independent of order of Y in this case.

So both the below are correct:

a) His "strength" combined with his coordination "makes" him a fierce competitor
b) His "strengths" combined with his coordination "make" him a fierce competitor
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by logitech » Mon Jan 05, 2009 3:23 am
goelmohit2002 wrote:IMO it will depend on the order of X.

As per Manhattan GMAT...only case when two subjects combined together become plural is when they are combined with additive clause "AND"...else the verb is governed by the order of X. Verb IMO is independent of order of Y in this case.

So both the below are correct:

a) His "strength" combined with his coordination "makes" him a fierce competitor
b) His "strengths" combined with his coordination "make" him a fierce competitor
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by vivek.kapoor83 » Mon Jan 05, 2009 3:29 am
Agree with Mohit............
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