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by patanjali.purpose » Mon Nov 19, 2012 2:33 pm
The direction and length of the bee's dance tells its fellow foragers where honey will be found out.

a) tells its fellow foragers where honey will be found out
b) tells its fellow foragers where they will find honey
c) tells where honey will be found out by its fellow foragers
d) tell where honey will be found to its fellow foragers
e) tell its fellow foragers where they will find honey

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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Mon Nov 19, 2012 3:02 pm
The obvious 3/2 split is "tells" or "tell" at the start of the answer choices. What is doing the telling? The direction and length, so we need the plural form "tell". Eliminate A, B, and C.

One key difference between D and E is the placement of the phrase "its fellow foragers". E places it logically after "tell", whereas D places it later in the sentence: "tell...to its fellow foragers". Additionally, "Tell to" does not work.
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by shivkumarc » Mon Nov 19, 2012 11:12 pm
Hi,

When we are talking about feature of particular entity,we have to us singular tense instead of plural tense.

Direction and length feature is of Bee's dance,so why you have considered plural tense

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by neer.king » Tue Nov 20, 2012 6:31 am
IMO E.. the emphasis is on the direction and length ... so it should be tell not tells..
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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Tue Nov 20, 2012 10:36 am
shivkumarc wrote:Hi,

When we are talking about feature of particular entity,we have to us singular tense instead of plural tense.

Direction and length feature is of Bee's dance,so why you have considered plural tense

Please advice
You are correct that 'length' and 'direction' are both singular on their own, but when we put them together they make a compound subject, which must be treated as plural. For example:

I am playing soccer tomorrow. Colleen is playing soccer tomorrow. Colleen and I are playing soccer tomorrow.
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