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by Blue_Skies » Thu Jun 06, 2013 6:41 pm

The school board ruling mandating that physically handicapped students be placed in regular classroom settings whenever possible also assured all children who have a reading problem of special aid.

(A) be placed in regular classroom settings whenever possible also assured all children who have a reading problem
(B) should be placed in regular classroom settings whenever possible also assures all children that have a reading problem
(C) are placed in regular classroom settings whenever possible also assures those children who are having reading problems
(D) be placed in regular classroom settings whenever possible also assured children with reading problems
(E) should be placed in regular classroom settings whenever possible also has assured all those children with a reading problem

Stuck between A and D please comment.

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by Lifetron » Thu Jun 06, 2013 10:23 pm

IMO D

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by Gaurav 2013-fall » Fri Jun 07, 2013 1:38 am

D

option A says "children who have a reading problem". How can children (plural) have a (singular) problem?
grammatical error

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by sana.noor » Fri Jun 07, 2013 2:04 am

D it should be

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by lunarpower » Sat Jun 08, 2013 8:39 pm

i received a private message about this thread.

there are no firm grounds for choosing between A and D here; both sentences are fine. it's a flawed problem.
what's the source?

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Gaurav 2013-fall wrote:D

option A says "children who have a reading problem". How can children (plural) have a (singular) problem?
grammatical error :)

nope, it's not that clear-cut.

there are plenty of constructions like this one (i.e., sentences discussing general phenomena) in which the singular can be used. for instance, you'd be more likely to see Human beings have a four-chambered heart than to see Human beings have four-chambered hearts, because the former is less ambiguous (i.e., it communicates more clearly that each human being only has one heart). but both, really, would be fine.

if it's official evidence you want, then look no further than problem #10 in the OG12 sentence correction section. that sentence states that carnivorous mammals (plural) have a heat-exchange network (singular), and, surprise!, it's not incorrect.

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if you're looking for an unnecessarily in-depth treatment, here's a little more: (NOTE: it's highly unlikely that anything below this line will ever be relevant on the gmat exam)

if your sentence is talking about specific instances/things/animals/people/etc., THEN you're going to want to match the singular and plural a little more rigorously.
for instance, All three of my children want to be a professional athlete is wrong, unless Mark wants to be the left hand, Leila wants to be the right leg, etc. in that sentence you'd need ... to be professional athletes.
but, when you're talking about general phenomena (as described above), things are a little more flexible.

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