What caused the $100 million museum's approval and construction to take 12 years was a combination of the complexity of the financing requirements and the opposition of several small but vocal constituencies.
A)What caused
B)What has caused
C)The thing that caused
D)That which caused
E)Causing
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bryan88 wrote:What caused the $100 million museum's approval and construction to take 12 years was a combination of the complexity of the financing requirements and the opposition of several small but vocal constituencies.
A)What caused
B)What has caused
C)The thing that caused
D)That which caused
E)Causing
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bryan88
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OA is A
GmatKiss wrote:bryan88 wrote:What caused the $100 million museum's approval and construction to take 12 years was a combination of the complexity of the financing requirements and the opposition of several small but vocal constituencies.
A)What caused
B)What has caused
C)The thing that caused
D)That which caused
E)Causing
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patanjali.purpose
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A - "What caused the $100 million museum's approval and construction to take 12 years" IS THE SUBJECT...and matches with the verb WASbryan88 wrote:What caused the $100 million museum's approval and construction to take 12 years was a combination of the complexity of the financing requirements and the opposition of several small but vocal constituencies.
A)What caused
B)What has caused
C)The thing that caused
D)That which caused
E)Causing
B - HAS CAUSED (wrong tense). The causing is already over and therefore we require past tense
C - THE THING...WAS A COMBINATION OF..AND THE OPPOSITION OF.. (IMO parts in bold is the logical subject and therefore we require WERE)
D - "THAT (WHICH CAUSED...12 YEARS) WAS A ...". Main clause is THAT WAS A COMBINATION OF ...(what DOES THAT REFERS TO); (2) in the relative clause WHICH refering to THAT, but since we do not have clarity on THAT, we cannot say what does WHICH refer
E - we do not what is subject now
IMO A
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manishtank1988
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Can anyone/you elaborate as to why C is wrong?
I see it as following -
The thing [that caused the $100 million museum's approval and construction to take 12 years] was a combination of the complexity of the financing requirements and the opposition of several small but vocal constituencies.
Main clause - The thing [that caused the $100 million museum's approval and construction to take 12 years] was a combination of the complexity of the financing requirements and the opposition of several small but vocal constituencies.
I understand that this is a substantive clause starting with relative pronoun "what" but i got this question wrong as i only realized it when i saw the answer and explanation. So can anyone please elaborate as to why to choose A compared to C
OR
how to understand as to when A (substantive clause) to use and when to use C(normal construction) ?
Helpful resource:
Magoosh Substantive clause - https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/substanti ... -the-gmat/
I see it as following -
The thing [that caused the $100 million museum's approval and construction to take 12 years] was a combination of the complexity of the financing requirements and the opposition of several small but vocal constituencies.
Main clause - The thing [that caused the $100 million museum's approval and construction to take 12 years] was a combination of the complexity of the financing requirements and the opposition of several small but vocal constituencies.
I understand that this is a substantive clause starting with relative pronoun "what" but i got this question wrong as i only realized it when i saw the answer and explanation. So can anyone please elaborate as to why to choose A compared to C
OR
how to understand as to when A (substantive clause) to use and when to use C(normal construction) ?
Helpful resource:
Magoosh Substantive clause - https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/substanti ... -the-gmat/
