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by gmatjeet » Mon Aug 08, 2011 6:16 am
Despite the increasing number of women graduating from law school and passing bar examinations, the proportion of judges and partners at major law firms who are women have not risen to a comparable extent.
(A) the proportion of judges and partners at major law firms who are women have not risen to a comparable extent
(B) the proportion of women judges and partners at major law firms have not risen comparably
(C) the proportion of judges and partners at major law firms who are women has not risen comparably
(D) yet the proportion of women judges and partners at major law firms has not risen to a comparable extent
(E) yet the proportion of judges and partners at major law firms who are women has not risen comparably


OA: C
Queries: In the OA "C", i dont understand the usage of "HAS" and "WHO".

1) The proportion of judges and partners is for sure going to be a number of people. How is it possible to consider this as singular.

2) the proportion of judges and partners at major law firms who are women -> Who acting as an essential modifier refers to the whole noun phrase before WHO. So then here WHO refers to Proportion of Judges and Partners. How is it that the proportion can be women?

Can some SC experts please help me with this.
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by mundasingh123 » Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:42 am
nice questions . where did u get this sc ?
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by gmatjeet » Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:44 am
I suppose it is from OG diagonastic test.
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by mundasingh123 » Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:45 am
All Your Quests answered here by the great Lunarpower
https://www.beatthegmat.com/quantity-exp ... 32059.html
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by gmatjeet » Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:53 am
Thanks. I had seen this link and went through it in detail.
But unable to understand the concept. As the thread was quite old, i did not think it would attract a lot of attention, so opened a new thread.

If you understood Ron's explanation, could you answer my queries. I would be really thankfull.

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by mundasingh123 » Mon Aug 08, 2011 8:00 am
Despite the increasing number of women graduating from law school and passing bar examinations, the proportion of judges and partners at major law firms who are women have not risen to a comparable extent.
(A) the proportion of judges and partners at major law firms who are women have not risen to a comparable extent
(B) the proportion of women judges and partners at major law firms have not risen comparably
(C) the proportion of judges and partners at major law firms who are women has not risen comparably
(D) yet the proportion of women judges and partners at major law firms has not risen to a comparable extent
(E) yet the proportion of judges and partners at major law firms who are women has not risen comparably

I think both of your queries have been answered very well by Ron . Ron says
Has the option C been
C) the proportion of judges and partners at major law firms , who are women has not risen comparably
who would have modified law firms .Same is the case with which modifier which is always preceded by a comma
But since there is no comma who can modify judges and partners . Same is the case with that modifier .
As for your second question ron says
had C been
C) a proportion of judges and partners at major law firms who are women has not risen comparably
then the number of verb would have depended on the object of preposition of .
Here judges is plural
But when it is the proportion , the number of verb is singular has
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by aspirant2011 » Sat Oct 22, 2011 6:48 am
gmatjeet wrote:Despite the increasing number of women graduating from law school and passing bar examinations, the proportion of judges and partners at major law firms who are women have not risen to a comparable extent.

(C) the proportion of judges and partners at major law firms who are women has not risen comparably

has is the verb which is used for proportion & whorefers to the end result of proportion of judges and partners
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by fueledGMAT » Tue Nov 15, 2011 11:55 am
I am no GMAT expert, but I think I can explain why the answer is C:

Answer A is correct except it links Have and proportion. Since proportion is an uncountable noun, it must be singular.

Answer B creates a parallelism issue because it separates judges and partners, indicating that partners may not need to be female

Answer C corrects the subject/verb agreement by changing the have to has. Thus this is the correct answer.

Answer D makes the same mistake that answer B makes. It also adds yet, which is redundant to despite.

Answer E adds yet, which is redundant to despite and therefore not necessary.

Hope this helps!
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by aspirant2011 » Sun Nov 27, 2011 10:10 am
gmatjeet wrote:Despite the increasing number of women graduating from law school and passing bar examinations, the proportion of judges and partners at major law firms who are women have not risen to a comparable extent.
(A) the proportion of judges and partners at major law firms who are women have not risen to a comparable extent
(B) the proportion of women judges and partners at major law firms have not risen comparably
(C) the proportion of judges and partners at major law firms who are women has not risen comparably
(D) yet the proportion of women judges and partners at major law firms has not risen to a comparable extent
(E) yet the proportion of judges and partners at major law firms who are women has not risen comparably


OA: C
Queries: In the OA "C", i dont understand the usage of "HAS" and "WHO".

1) The proportion of judges and partners is for sure going to be a number of people. How is it possible to consider this as singular.

2) the proportion of judges and partners at major law firms who are women -> Who acting as an essential modifier refers to the whole noun phrase before WHO. So then here WHO refers to Proportion of Judges and Partners. How is it that the proportion can be women?

Can some SC experts please help me with this.
We have used has because subject is singular i.e proportion..... This is a case of prepositional modifier
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by ArunangsuSahu » Sat Jan 14, 2012 10:45 am
(C)

The proportion---has

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by veenu08 » Wed May 08, 2013 10:14 am
Can some one please explain the usage of yet

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by jack.daniel » Fri May 17, 2013 4:53 am
veenu08 wrote:Can some one please explain the usage of yet

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in option D and E, YET is used to show contrast. This causes redundancy (double conjunction), because DESPITE, which is also used to show contrast, already exists in the sentence.

Following double conjunction patterns cause Redundancy:
1. Though/although/even though/despite/in spite of FOLLOWED BY but/yet/however/still/nevertheless
2. because/since/due to/as FOLLOWED BY so/therefore/thus/consequently

Hope this will clear you why D and E are ruled out.

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