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by Justin So » Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:07 pm
Q. Out of the public's interest in the details of and conflicts in other people's lives have grown a booming market for "reality" television shows that are brining "regular" people onto the television screen with increasing frequency.

(A) other people's lives have grown a booming market for "reality" television shows that are bringing
(B) other people's lives has grown a booming market for "reality" television shows that are bringing
(C) another person's life has grown a booming market for "reality" television shows that is bringing
(D) other people's lives has grown a booming market for "reality" television shows that is bringing
(E) other people's lives has grown a booming market for "reality" television shows that bring
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This is a quesion in Kaplan GMAT Advanced.
The issue in this question is, originally, singular or plural. But for me, the problem was what is the subject of the subclause. I thought the subject of the verb "bring" is "television shows" because the shows can bring people onto the TV, not a market.
However, the correct answer is (D), which means "a booming market" is bringing people onto the TV.
I still don't understand how a market can bring people onto TV, not the TV shows. If anyone can explain this clearly, I would deeply appreciate it.
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by ajay_deepak » Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:16 pm
My two cents for D. 'bringing' is progressive, which means it is still happening.
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Re: advanced S/C question

by ankit1383 » Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:56 pm
In this sentence...that refer to television shouws or booming market??
that refer to preceding noun and in this sentence it is television shows.....
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by madhur_ahuja » Wed Jun 17, 2009 8:29 pm
ankit1383 wrote:In this sentence...that refer to television shouws or booming market??
that refer to preceding noun and in this sentence it is television shows.....
It is not mandatory that that only refers to preceding noun. It can refer to the whole clause as well. This is exactly what the difference is between which and that.

In this case, then question is of tense - > Simple Present Vs Present Progressive.
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by Justin So » Thu Jun 18, 2009 4:09 pm
then, with respect to the meaning, is it possible that "a booming market is bringing people onto the TV screen"? not "TV shows"?
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by thetrystero » Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:42 pm
@justin so: can you please post the rest of the answer choices. :?:
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by vinayakdl » Thu Jun 18, 2009 6:19 pm
IMO Answer: D

Reasoning:
'a booming market for "reality" television shows' is the one responsible for 'bringing' people to TV screens. It looks like "television shows" is bringing the people but it is actually the market for....hence D makes more sense.

This is a tough one!

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Re: advanced S/C question

by goelmohit2002 » Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:12 am
ankit1383 wrote:In this sentence...that refer to television shouws or booming market??
that refer to preceding noun and in this sentence it is television shows.....
IMO that refers to preceding noun phrase...and not "only" noun...there are couple of examples in OG for the same.
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Re: advanced S/C question

by goelmohit2002 » Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:16 am
madhur_ahuja wrote:
ankit1383 wrote:In this sentence...that refer to television shouws or booming market??
that refer to preceding noun and in this sentence it is television shows.....
It is not mandatory that that only refers to preceding noun. It can refer to the whole clause as well. This is exactly what the difference is between which and that.

In this case, then question is of tense - > Simple Present Vs Present Progressive.
Hi Madhur,

Are you sure about this....as per Manhattan that and which both refers to noun...or noun phrase....

But which in general "introduces" middlemen modifier...( there is some technical name of that...i suppose it is non restrictive clause)

that in general "introduces" modifier which cannot be logically removed...( there is some technical name of that...i suppose it is restrictive clause)

Please tell if I am either misunderstanding you or there are any gaps in my understanding.

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by goelmohit2002 » Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:24 am
vinayakdl wrote:IMO Answer: D

Reasoning:
'a booming market for "reality" television shows' is the one responsible for 'bringing' people to TV screens. It looks like "television shows" is bringing the people but it is actually the market for....hence D makes more sense.

This is a tough one!

Vinayak
Hi Vinayak,

Even if we go with "is"...then why "that" is not modifying the immediately preceding noun or noun phrase....why this particular "that" is going so back to refer to market.... :-)

Can you please help me understand the same.

Thanks
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by vinayakdl » Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:41 am
goelmohit2002 wrote:
vinayakdl wrote:IMO Answer: D

Reasoning:
'a booming market for "reality" television shows' is the one responsible for 'bringing' people to TV screens. It looks like "television shows" is bringing the people but it is actually the market for....hence D makes more sense.

This is a tough one!

Vinayak
Hi Vinayak,

Even if we go with "is"...then why "that" is not modifying the immediately preceding noun or noun phrase....why this particular "that" is going so back to refer to market.... :-)

Can you please help me understand the same.

Thanks
Mohit
i think that is refering to "a booming market for "reality" television shows" phrase as a subject...
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by goelmohit2002 » Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:56 am
Hi Vinayak,

Thanks.

Can you please help me understand how to decide which noun phrase any that will refer...

if there is something like

A of B of C of D that is.....

and all of A, B, C, and D are nouns/noun phrases...as is the example above....

then how to decide which one is modified by the "that".

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by goelmohit2002 » Fri Jun 19, 2009 11:59 am
vinayakdl wrote:IMO Answer: D

Reasoning:
'a booming market for "reality" television shows' is the one responsible for 'bringing' people to TV screens. It looks like "television shows" is bringing the people but it is actually the market for....hence D makes more sense.

This is a tough one!

Vinayak
Hi Vinayak,

Can you please explain in a bit more detail....why shows can not bring the people....why people are brought by market here ?
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by Justin So » Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:53 am
I think that the subject of the verb "bring" can be either a booming market or television shows, gramatically. But my question was, in meaning, television shows more make sense because "reality shows" bring people onto TV screen, not "a market".
Please somebody explain how "a market" brings people onto TV screen.
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