Sentence Correction

New Jersey’s is one of the five highest number of reported cases of Lyme disease in the United States.
(A) New Jersey’s is one of the five highest number of reported
(B) New Jersey’s is one of the five highest numbers in reporting
(C) New Jersey has a report of one of the five highest numbers of
(D) New Jersey has one of the five highest numbers of reported
(E) New Jersey reports one of the five highest number of

Pls explain. OA - D

IMO - E
Numbers of is always wrong...

Definitely E, D is the first to eliminate because of 'numbers of'

D is correct and has been explained by Stacey in this forum before. Would post the link once I find it.

shibal wrote:IMO - E
Numbers of is always wrong...

Not true.

D is definitely correct in this case.

IMO:D
This pattern follows:(Try Sahil's note)
One of the NOUN(this noun will always be plural)----->PLURAL verb.

A number of-Plural
The number of-Singular but One of the pattern is different.
A sentence like X is one of the Y:Such a sentence should have a subject verb agreement with Y and not with X.
X--->New Jersy reports (Subject singular)
Y---->five highest numbers of reported cases.
Hope I am not wrong

Kuhu wrote:IMO:D
This pattern follows:(Try Sahil's note)
One of the NOUN(this noun will always be plural)----->PLURAL verb.

A number of-Plural
The number of-Singular but One of the pattern is different.
A sentence like X is one of the Y:Such a sentence should have a subject verb agreement with Y and not with X.
X--->New Jersy reports (Subject singular)
Y---->five highest numbers of reported cases.
Hope I am not wrong

I guess you are right most part. As you said, in 'one of the' constructions, verb following the noun in the prep phrase is always plural. But if there is a relative pronoun after this noun (such as that...), then the verb MUST be plural. However, if there is no relative pronoun, verb need to be singular.

One of the 5 cars that are red...

One of the 5 cars is broken.

Experts, correct this if it is wrong.

crackgmat007 wrote:

Kuhu wrote:IMO:D
This pattern follows:(Try Sahil's note)
One of the NOUN(this noun will always be plural)----->PLURAL verb.

A number of-Plural
The number of-Singular but One of the pattern is different.
A sentence like X is one of the Y:Such a sentence should have a subject verb agreement with Y and not with X.
X--->New Jersy reports (Subject singular)
Y---->five highest numbers of reported cases.
Hope I am not wrong

I guess you are right most part. As you said, in 'one of the' constructions, verb following the noun in the prep phrase is always plural. But if there is a relative pronoun after this noun (such as that...), then the verb MUST be plural. However, if there is no relative pronoun, verb need to be singular.

One of the 5 cars that are red...

One of the 5 cars is broken.

Experts, correct this if it is wrong.

Both examples given are correct. In the first case, "that" indicates that "are" is going along with "cars" (i.e. all 5 of them are red); in the second case "is" only refers to one of the 5 cars (i.e. only one of them is broken), so we definitely want the singular verb.

If the first example had been a complete sentence, we would have seen that another verb would follow and would agree with "one". For example:

One of the 5 cars that are red is broken.

Thanks Stuart.