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by gmat20092009 » Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:23 am
The Daughters of the American Revolution, a volunteer service organization, admits as members only women who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution.
a>admits as members only women who can prove lineal descent
b>admit as members only women who can prove lineal descent
c>admits as members women who can prove lineal descent
d>only admit as members women who can prove lineal descent
e>admits as members women who can prove lineal descent only
Ans is a...How cum
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by riteshbindal » Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:51 am
A IMO. OA plz
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by riteshbindal » Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:53 am
Oops... I didn't see that you have already given the answer. I will explain this SC after some time. need to go out now.
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by bharathh » Sat Aug 29, 2009 10:57 am
Ans A

Ans is not B or D as the subject (the organization) does not agree with the verb. Organization is singular. So the verb should be admits not admit.

E changes the meaning of the sentence. The restriction is on women not patriot. Even otherwise it is kind of hard to have descended from one person.

C is not restrictive enough. A shows that membership is restricted to certain groups of ppl.
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by anitaPEZ » Sun Aug 30, 2009 2:21 am
re: B and D, actually if it wasn't a name it should have been plural, regardless of the bit between the commas...

The sons of Adam, a pair of wackos, were not good brothers.

But because "Daughters of the American Revolution" is a name of an organization, it's singular, like a movie name

Reservoir Dogs is a great movie.
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