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Kaplan Premier Program - Q10 - wrong Answer by Kaplan????

by desidoc9 » Tue Jul 08, 2008 5:34 am
Hi

This is the question

A group of students who have begun to clean up Fredrick Law Olmsted's Morningside Park in New York city believes that the park needs not to be redesigned but to be returned to its former condition.

a)
b) believe that the park needs to not be redesigned but to
c)believes that the park needs not to be redesigned but could
d)believe that the park needs not to be redesigned but to
e)believe that the park needs not to be redesigned but that it

[spoiler]OA = A[/spoiler]
I think the correct ans should be D
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by reachac » Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:53 am
dude D cant be the answer, 'group' is a collective noun so we gotta have a singular verb form 'believes'
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by desidoc9 » Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:40 am
Buddy

I thought of that..

Now look at the first line of the para

"A group of students who HAVE"

If the focus is on "group", it should have been "HAS" and BELIEVES

IF the focus is on "students", then it would be "HAVE" and "BELIEVE"
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by varunrajwade » Tue Jul 08, 2008 1:58 pm
Experts pls help!!!!
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by Ancientmtk » Tue Jul 08, 2008 3:17 pm
A is not parallel....
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by sibbineni » Tue Jul 08, 2008 8:35 pm
A group of students who have begun to clean up Fredrick Law Olmsted's Morningside Park in New York city believes that the park needs not be to redesigned but to be returned to its former condition.


please verify the red color part it should be not to be instead of not be to

1. group is collective noun so singular verb believes
2. not to be X should be parallel to but to be Y
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by reachac » Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:22 pm
desidoc9 wrote:Buddy

I thought of that..

Now look at the first line of the para

"A group of students who HAVE"

If the focus is on "group", it should have been "HAS" and BELIEVES

IF the focus is on "students", then it would be "HAVE" and "BELIEVE"

Dude, take a closer look at this part "A group of students who HAVE"....whats this 'who' modifying?.....Students, plural. The part of the sentence " who have begun to clean up Fredrick Law Olmsted's Morningside Park in New York city" is a middlemen, just describes the students forming that group. Eliminate the middlemen and again read through.

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by desidoc9 » Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:10 pm
reachac wrote:
desidoc9 wrote:Buddy

I thought of that..

Now look at the first line of the para

"A group of students who HAVE"

If the focus is on "group", it should have been "HAS" and BELIEVES

IF the focus is on "students", then it would be "HAVE" and "BELIEVE"

Dude, take a closer look at this part "A group of students who HAVE"....whats this 'who' modifying?.....Students, plural. The part of the sentence " who have begun to clean up Fredrick Law Olmsted's Morningside Park in New York city" is a middlemen, just describes the students forming that group. Eliminate the middlemen and again read through.

Cheers!!
hey

makes sense by taking out the middlemen....
so A could be the right answer...

but i still have a doubt, in questions like this....how do u decide which is the main subject...
because...clearly the "middleman" is modifying "students"....
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