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singular or plural??

by smagish » Sat Aug 18, 2012 10:41 am
After suffering $2 billion in losses and 25,000 layoffs, the nation's semiconductor
industry, which makes chips that run everything from computers and spy satellites
to dishwashers, appears to have made a long-awaited recovery
.
(A) computers and spy satellites to dishwashers, appears to have
(B) computers, spy satellites, and dishwashers, appears having
(C) computers, spy satellites, and dishwashers, appears that it has
(D) computers and spy satellites to dishwashers, appears that it has
(E) computers and spy satellites as well as dishwashers, appears to have

isn't nation's semiconductor industry singular???

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by avinashrao9 » Sat Aug 18, 2012 11:01 am
Yes. It is singular and hence appears.
Is the answer A

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by karthikgmat » Sat Aug 18, 2012 6:32 pm
Yes definitely semi conductor industry is singular

A is correct.

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by hjafferi » Sun Aug 19, 2012 10:04 am
IMO A

A) correct idioms (From...to) (appears to)
B) Incorrect from....And structure. Also appears having
C)Incorrect structure ( from...and)
D) incorrect idiom(appears that)
E) incorrect structure(from...as)

Also industry is singular.