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Practice Question: UFOs and Extraterrestrial Life

by MelissaLim » Wed Jan 04, 2012 3:50 pm
Source: Kaplan Premier Live Online 2010 Edition

The public's widespread belief in the existence of UFOs and their general curiosity about extraterrestrial life has generated considerable interest in science fiction.
  • A UFOs and their general curiosity about extraterrestrial life has
    B UFOs and they are generally curios about extraterrestrial life which has
    C UFOs, as well as their general curiosity about extraterrestrial life, has
    D UFOs, as well as its general curiosity about extraterrestrial life, has
    E UFOs, as well as general curiosity about extraterrestrial life, have
Answer: D
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by avik.ch » Thu Jan 05, 2012 2:51 am
here " The public's widespread belief " is singular - So the use of "their" and "they" are wrong. A,B and C are out.

E is wrong because if "have" as the subject is sigular.

Left with D.

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by vikram4689 » Mon Apr 09, 2012 12:10 am
Though Avik mentioned the answer correctly BUT "its" is referring to public's and NOT " The public's widespread belief "

public/b] is a collective noun and hence singular and i.e. D
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