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SC Practice question #14

by missionmba » Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:12 pm
Biologists believe that they have found one of the substances that tell individual genes both when to become active and when to remain quiescent in the earliest phases of an embryo's development.

(A) tell individual genes both when to become active and when to remain
(B) tell individual genes both at which time they should become active and should remain
(C) tells individual genes both when to become active and when to remain
(D) tells individual genes both when to activate and when to
(E) tell an individual gene both about when it should become active and when it should remain
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by sibbineni » Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:24 pm
IMO A
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by stubbornp » Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:56 pm
should be A or E...

Better one is A
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by reachac » Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:57 pm
IMO A
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by missionmba » Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:54 am
OA: A
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by LSB » Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:11 am
Why not c?

"one of the substances that" is singular?
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by kitrak » Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:30 am
@LSB

it seemed C to me at the first glance but then the sentence says that the scientist found "one of the substances"

so IMO, i should be tell n not tells as this sentence is concerned with many substances of which scientists hav found only 1.
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by missionmba » Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:44 am
The pattern to remember is

'one of the' + Noun (Plural) + that/who + Verb(Plural)
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by NSNguyen » Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:57 am
That ( singular) - . eliminate A, B, E
C is better than D, it present verb parallel " to become ... to remain)
C is my choice
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by LSB » Thu Aug 07, 2008 7:15 pm
This is an interesting one. Would appreciate if one of the GMAT instructors could comment?
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by nitin86 » Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:58 am
missionmba wrote:The pattern to remember is

'one of the' + Noun (Plural) + that/who + Verb(Plural)
On the same note...if its ONLY one of the .....then the pattern is


ONLY 'one of the' + Noun (Plural) + that/who + Verb(SIngular)
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by missionmba » Sun Aug 10, 2008 4:58 am
nitin86 wrote:
missionmba wrote:The pattern to remember is

'one of the' + Noun (Plural) + that/who + Verb(Plural)
On the same note...if its ONLY one of the .....then the pattern is


ONLY 'one of the' + Noun (Plural) + that/who + Verb(SIngular)

@nitin86
only has to be explicitely stated?
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by nitin86 » Mon Aug 18, 2008 9:01 am
missionmba wrote:
nitin86 wrote:
missionmba wrote:The pattern to remember is

'one of the' + Noun (Plural) + that/who + Verb(Plural)
On the same note...if its ONLY one of the .....then the pattern is


ONLY 'one of the' + Noun (Plural) + that/who + Verb(SIngular)

@nitin86
only has to be explicitely stated?
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My apologies for the delay, went on vacation :)

that's true...."ONLY" needs to be explicitly stated
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by gmat_best-shot » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:56 am
Ditto LSB's reasoning. C seems to be correct.
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by arorag » Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:32 pm
nitin86 wrote:
missionmba wrote:The pattern to remember is

'one of the' + Noun (Plural) + that/who + Verb(Plural)
On the same note...if its ONLY one of the .....then the pattern is


ONLY 'one of the' + Noun (Plural) + that/who + Verb(SIngular)

Do you have official source of this rule? As far as I know whenever you have
that/who it always modified the Noun (plural)
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