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As a quick follow-up to my last post, I want to emphasize that my grammar advice is very GMAT-specific. That is, while there is occasionally some debate among grammar purists about the plurality of certain collective nouns, the GMAT seems to use collective nouns in an almost exclusively singular sen...
- by jdenning
Mon Jul 12, 2010 11:50 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: UNO maintains that there
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Ahh good question Tomada! Prepositions are words like “of,� “in,� “with,� “from,� etc. that introduce phrases that provide additional information about something else (often the subject). So in the statement “a number of reasons is given…,� “of reasons� is the prepositional...
- by jdenning
Mon Jul 12, 2010 11:35 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: UNO maintains that there
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This is definitely an interesting one. I thought that the phrase "A number of" is considered an idiom on the GMAT and the decision to make it singular or plural depends on the prepositional phrase, which in this case "of reasons"is plural. I believe that this is the one scenario...
- by jdenning
Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:43 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: UNO maintains that there
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Hi kvcpk – thanks for the question. First off, while this question is not actually from the PowerScore course, it is a fantastic illustration of a concept that we cover thoroughly in our course: Collective Nouns in Subject-Verb Agreement. A collective noun is a noun that represents a seemingly plu...
- by jdenning
Mon Jul 12, 2010 9:16 am- Forum: Sentence Correction
- Topic: UNO maintains that there
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