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by advita » Wed Jan 26, 2011 9:18 am
hi guys/experts,

need your help regarding quantifiers:

1. population and density- non count noun. -true.??

query:

1. 10% of the population is/are..... (population is non-count noun)

2. 10% of 10 apple/apples is/are ..... (remember 10% of 10 is 1 singular...so what it should be is or are.)
3. 10 % of 1000 apple/apples is/ are.... (10% of 1000 is 100; 100 is a count noun but more than 1. so, plural.)

4, half of my family lives/live in Canada.
5. All of the class is/are here.

pl explain or at least highlight the correct verb/noun forms.
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by Target2009 » Wed Jan 26, 2011 10:04 am
10% of the population is poor.
10% of 10 apples are bad.
10 % of 1000 apple is bad.
10 % of 1000 apples are bad.
Half of my family lives in Canada.
All of the class is here.
All of the classs are here.
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by Night reader » Wed Jan 26, 2011 6:50 pm
1. 10% of the population is ..... (population is non-count noun)
2. 10% of 10 apples are ..... (remember 10% of 10 is 1 singular...so what it should be is or are.)
3. 10 % of 1000 apples are.... (10% of 1000 is 100; 100 is a count noun but more than 1. so, plural.)
4, one half of my family lives in Canada.
5. All of the class is here.
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by Jim@Grockit » Sun Jan 30, 2011 10:08 pm
There are some cases where aggregate measures like population and weight can go back to being count nouns (the populations of country X and country Y are about the same) when they are kind of "subtotals", but for the most part, aggregates are noncount and singular in American (and therefore GMAT) English.
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