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by nationalfuel » Sun Jul 27, 2008 5:23 pm
820.The rise in the Commerce Department’s index of leading economic indicators suggest that the economy should continue its expansion into the coming months, but that the mixed performance of the index’s individual components indicates that economic growth will proceed at a more moderate pace than in the first quarter of this year.
(A) suggest that the economy should continue its expansion into the coming months, but that
(B) suggest that the economy is to continue expansion in the coming months, but
(C) suggests that the economy will continue its expanding in the coming months, but that
(D) suggests that the economy is continuing to expand into the coming months, but that
(E) suggests that the economy will continue to expand in the coming months, but
i think the subject should be "indicators" , not the rise.
please solve my confusion
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by reachac » Sun Jul 27, 2008 7:57 pm
IMO E
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by umaa » Sun Jul 27, 2008 8:07 pm
IMO E.

OA Pls.

The rise is the subject. The rise (in the Commerce Department’s index of leading economic indicators). Hope this will help. thx.
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Re: 820

by nationalfuel » Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:37 am
nationalfuel wrote:820.The rise in the Commerce Department’s index of leading economic indicators suggest that the economy should continue its expansion into the coming months, but that the mixed performance of the index’s individual components indicates that economic growth will proceed at a more moderate pace than in the first quarter of this year.
(A) suggest that the economy should continue its expansion into the coming months, but that
(B) suggest that the economy is to continue expansion in the coming months, but
(C) suggests that the economy will continue its expanding in the coming months, but that
(D) suggests that the economy is continuing to expand into the coming months, but that
(E) suggests that the economy will continue to expand in the coming months, but
i think the subject should be "indicators" , not the rise.
please solve my confusion
ya, the answer is E. thanks
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Re: 820

by kiranlegend » Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:23 am
nationalfuel wrote:820.The rise in the Commerce Department’s index of leading economic indicators suggest that the economy should continue its expansion into the coming months, but that the mixed performance of the index’s individual components indicates that economic growth will proceed at a more moderate pace than in the first quarter of this year.
(A) suggest that the economy should continue its expansion into the coming months, but that
(B) suggest that the economy is to continue expansion in the coming months, but
(C) suggests that the economy will continue its expanding in the coming months, but that
(D) suggests that the economy is continuing to expand into the coming months, but that
(E) suggests that the economy will continue to expand in the coming months, but
i think the subject should be "indicators" , not the rise.
please solve my confusion

IMO E.. the best choice to my opinion..

hey guys, hold on.. i have a doubt here as i have in every other post that has been posted here :x

suggests that is inviting subjunctive mood into the sentence right?? in that case is the usage of will in E correct?
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by GmatKiss » Thu Oct 06, 2011 3:55 am
IMO:E
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by sl750 » Thu Oct 06, 2011 4:12 am
E

'The rise' is the subject here not indicators. The prepositional phrase will not contain the subject of the sentence
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