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by winniethepooh » Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:12 am
The proliferation of computer games designed to involve many players at once were first developed before the widespread availability of high-speed internet connections.

I am required to find the subject/subjects and verb/verbs and also to determine whether they make sense together and also to agree the subject with the number in verb form(singular or plural).Also, if the sentence is not correct then to correct the sentence.
Kindly help someone!
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by Geva@EconomistGMAT » Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:16 am
winniethepooh wrote:The proliferation of computer games designed to involve many players at once first developed before the widespread availability of high-speed internet connections.

I am required to find the subject/subjects and verb/verbs and also to determine whether they make sense together and also to agree the subject with the number in verb form(singular or plural).Also, if the sentence is not correct then to correct the sentence.
Kindly help someone!
Why don't you begin by answering this: Who does what in the Main sentence?

If the sentence were reduced to 3-4 words ONLY in the form of X did Y (e.g. Frankie goes to Holly wood, Debby Does Dallas) Which 3-4 words of the sentence would best capture the main idea?
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by winniethepooh » Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:29 am
Frankie goes , Debby does.
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by Geva@EconomistGMAT » Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:33 am
winniethepooh wrote:Frankie goes , Debby does.
Good. And in your sentence?
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by winniethepooh » Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:36 am
Games - were first developed
I think nothing else.
I am a bit confused actually. I think proliferation shouldn't matter!
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by Geva@EconomistGMAT » Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:58 am
winniethepooh wrote:Games - were first developed
I think nothing else.
I am a bit confused actually. I think proliferation shouldn't matter!
You're right - and that's the problem with the sentence: The normal structure of a sentence is "Subject - Verb - Object". That's the normal way a sentence goes: first WHO, then WHAT he does, then TO WHOM/WHAT. We are therefore quite rightly accustomed to looking for the subject in the beginning of the sentence - however, the proliferation cannot "be developed".

so the sentence needs to be corrected - but I can't really tell you how. There are many ways to correct a sentence - one of them is to take proliferation out, and rearrange the rest of the sentence accordingly.

The good (or bad) thing on GMAT SC is that the correction options are suggested in the answer choices - you just need to choose the most effective sentence.
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by winniethepooh » Mon Jun 20, 2011 4:09 am
What Manhattan has given is: Computer games designed to involve many players at once have proliferated; such games were first developed before the widespread availability of high-speed Internet connections.

What I don't understand in this is that why is developed underlined as a verb too??
Any answers??
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by winniethepooh » Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:27 am
somebody answer please!
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by Geva@EconomistGMAT » Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:29 am
winniethepooh wrote:What Manhattan has given is: Computer games designed to involve many players at once have proliferated; such games were first developed before the widespread availability of high-speed Internet connections.

What I don't understand in this is that why is developed underlined as a verb too??
Any answers??
It's actually part of the past progressive tense "were developed".
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by winniethepooh » Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:33 am
but 'first' lies in between them, still that's fine?
Sorry, to bother so much, but just out of curiosity!
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by Geva@EconomistGMAT » Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:35 am
winniethepooh wrote:but 'first' lies in between them, still that's fine?
Yes.
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