From Kaplan's GMAT Premier Program 2007 Edition, Sentence Correction:
15. The newly elected baseball commissioner has asked _________ to go on strke, and the lawyers representing major league franchise owners.
B. that a federal arbitrator mediate negotiations between representatives of the umpire's union, which have threatened
E. a federal arbitrator to mediate negotiations between representatives of the umpire's union, which has threatened
A, C and E are obviously wrong.
The Kaplan answer guide states that both are idiomatically acceptable, but that the subject-verb agreement in choice B is incorrect because it uses "the plural verb have with the singular subject union."
My question is this: aren't the representatives of the union threatening to go on strike, not the union itself? If so, shouldn't B be the correct answer since have is used with representatives?
15. The newly elected baseball commissioner has asked _________ to go on strke, and the lawyers representing major league franchise owners.
B. that a federal arbitrator mediate negotiations between representatives of the umpire's union, which have threatened
E. a federal arbitrator to mediate negotiations between representatives of the umpire's union, which has threatened
A, C and E are obviously wrong.
The Kaplan answer guide states that both are idiomatically acceptable, but that the subject-verb agreement in choice B is incorrect because it uses "the plural verb have with the singular subject union."
My question is this: aren't the representatives of the union threatening to go on strike, not the union itself? If so, shouldn't B be the correct answer since have is used with representatives?
