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by PGMAT » Sat Apr 28, 2012 5:35 am
Joachim Raff and Giacomo Meyerbeer are examples of the kind of composer who receives popular acclaim while living, often goes into decline after death, and never regains popularity again.

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I could solve this question correctly using parallelism. But my question is - What is the subject of this sentence? Is it 'composer'? What confuses me is we have two examples but a singular verb 'receives'.
Some one please explain. This sentence seems to be structured in a very confusing way.
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by patanjali.purpose » Sat Apr 28, 2012 5:39 am
PGMAT wrote:Joachim Raff and Giacomo Meyerbeer are examples of the kind of composer who receives popular acclaim while living, often goes into decline after death, and never regains popularity again.

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I could solve this question correctly using parallelism. But my question is - What is the subject of this sentence? Is it 'composer'? What confuses me is we have two examples but a singular verb 'receives'.
Some one please explain. This sentence seems to be structured in a very confusing way.
We have 2 clauses in the sentence:

main clause: "Joachim Raff and Giacomo Meyerbeer are examples of the kind of composer" - here Joachim Raff and Giacomo Meyerbeer is the subject and therefore ARE correct

2nd clause (relative clause) - WHO receives popular acclaim while living, often goes into decline after death, and never regains popularity again. WHO IS REFERING TO "THE KIND OF COMPOSER" and since 'the kind of composer" is singular IS / GOES required
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