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anantbhatia: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 98; Joined: Sat Feb 06, 2010 11:56 pm; Thanked: 5 times

by anantbhatia » Wed Oct 13, 2010 4:07 am

Out of America's obsession with all things pet-related have grown a market for human-inspired accessories and accoutrements that are bringing forth rhinestone studded collars, cashmere dog sweaters, and canopied pet beds.

things pet-related have grown a market for human-inspired accessories and accoutrements that are bringing

things pet-related has grown a market for human-inspired accessories and accoutrements that is bringing

things that are pet-related has grown a market for human-inspired accessories and accoutrements that bring

pet-related things have grown a market for human-inspired accessories and accoutrements that are bringing

pet-related things has grown a market for human-inspired accessories and accoutrements that bring[spoiler]

OA:B[/spoiler]

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by shovan85 » Wed Oct 13, 2010 5:04 am

Has/Have: "Pet-related thing" is singular (Out of things this one...) Discard A and D

C "things that are pet-related" makes all things are pet-related. This is not logical. The same logical error is repeated in E.

So IMO B

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by hcueva » Wed Oct 13, 2010 5:23 am

What's growing and bringing things is the market. So it must be "has" grown and "brings"/"is bringing".

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by anantbhatia » Wed Oct 13, 2010 5:24 am

obsession is singular and hence 'has'...

m confused btw B n E.

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by shovan85 » Wed Oct 13, 2010 5:35 am

anantbhatia wrote:obsession is singular and hence 'has'...

m confused btw B n E.

See between B and E: In E things are not there. So if you make the complete stmt it will be- "Out of America's obsession with all pet-related things has grown a market for human-inspired accessories and accoutrements that bring....."

It clearly distorts the meaning. It does not even make a proper sentence. From the above sentence can you tell me what has grown market?

In B you can clearly say pet-related has the market.

Hope this makes sense

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by anantbhatia » Wed Oct 13, 2010 6:02 am

(E)-> Obsession with X has grown a market for Y.

I still don't get what is wrong here.

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by reply2spg » Wed Oct 13, 2010 6:14 am

In this sentence there are 2 clauses

Clause 1 - Out of America's obsession with all things pet-related have grown a market for human-inspired accessories and accoutrements

Clause 2 - that are bringing forth rhinestone studded collars, cashmere dog sweaters, and canopied pet beds

Point (1) Subject of first clause is America's obsession, we need 'has' and not 'have'

Point (2) What is the subject for this clause? 'A Market'. Why 'that' is not referring to 'human-inspired accessories and accoutrements', because 'human-inspired accessories and accoutrements' is a prepositional phrase. We need verb 'is or brings' and not 'are or bring'.

Let's analyse all options....

anantbhatia wrote:Out of America's obsession with all things pet-related have grown a market for human-inspired accessories and accoutrements that are bringing forth rhinestone studded collars, cashmere dog sweaters, and canopied pet beds.

things pet-related have grown a market for human-inspired accessories and accoutrements that are bringing - as per point (1), eliminate

things pet-related has grown a market for human-inspired accessories and accoutrements that is bringing - Hold on

things that are pet-related has grown a market for human-inspired accessories and accoutrements that bring - As per point (2), eliminate

pet-related things have grown a market for human-inspired accessories and accoutrements that are bringing - as per point (1), eliminate

pet-related things has grown a market for human-inspired accessories and accoutrements that bring - As per point (2), eliminate

[spoiler]OA:B[/spoiler]

Sudhanshu
(have lot of things to learn from all of you)

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by anantbhatia » Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:31 am

Thanks Sudhuanshu.. makes sense

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by niksworth » Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:37 am

Whoa! Things are getting muddled here.

Correct sentence - Choice B
Out of America's obsession with all things pet-related has grown a market for human-inspired accessories and accoutrements that is bringing forth rhinestone studded collars, cashmere dog sweaters, and canopied pet beds.

This question tests subject verb agreement.

This sentence is inverted in that the subject comes after the verb.

Sentence Core
- Out of A has grown B that is bringing C (Inverted)

Flip the inverted sequence to the regular construction.
- B that is bringing C has grown out of A (Regular)

So, the subject is B.
that is bringing C is a modifier which modifies B, the subject.
has grown is the verb.
out of A is a prepositional phrase.

The subject of the sentence is B, market (sing). So the correct form of the verb is has been (sing). Rule out A and D.

that in that is bringing is a relative pronoun standing for market. So the accompanying verb has to be is (sing). Both C and E use the verb bring (pl) with that. Rule out C and E.

B is right.

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by vishalj » Thu Oct 14, 2010 8:26 pm

niksworth is given the right explanation. The subject here is "market". Eliminiate all prepositional phrases such as " out of". What you will leave with simple sentence " a market has grown". This is a good sentence that uses both inverted subject and adjective modifier on the same sentence. IMO B

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