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by bryan88 » Sun Apr 29, 2012 8:17 am
What caused the $100 million museum's approval and construction to take 12 years was a combination of the complexity of the financing requirements and the opposition of several small but vocal constituencies.

A)What caused

B)What has caused

C)The thing that caused

D)That which caused

E)Causing
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by GmatKiss » Sun Apr 29, 2012 10:02 am
bryan88 wrote:What caused the $100 million museum's approval and construction to take 12 years was a combination of the complexity of the financing requirements and the opposition of several small but vocal constituencies.

A)What caused

B)What has caused

C)The thing that caused

D)That which caused

E)Causing
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by bryan88 » Sun Apr 29, 2012 10:04 am
OA is A
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bryan88 wrote:What caused the $100 million museum's approval and construction to take 12 years was a combination of the complexity of the financing requirements and the opposition of several small but vocal constituencies.

A)What caused

B)What has caused

C)The thing that caused

D)That which caused

E)Causing
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by patanjali.purpose » Sun Apr 29, 2012 1:17 pm
bryan88 wrote:What caused the $100 million museum's approval and construction to take 12 years was a combination of the complexity of the financing requirements and the opposition of several small but vocal constituencies.

A)What caused

B)What has caused

C)The thing that caused

D)That which caused

E)Causing
A - "What caused the $100 million museum's approval and construction to take 12 years" IS THE SUBJECT...and matches with the verb WAS

B - HAS CAUSED (wrong tense). The causing is already over and therefore we require past tense

C - THE THING...WAS A COMBINATION OF..AND THE OPPOSITION OF.. (IMO parts in bold is the logical subject and therefore we require WERE)

D - "THAT (WHICH CAUSED...12 YEARS) WAS A ...". Main clause is THAT WAS A COMBINATION OF ...(what DOES THAT REFERS TO); (2) in the relative clause WHICH refering to THAT, but since we do not have clarity on THAT, we cannot say what does WHICH refer

E - we do not what is subject now

IMO A
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by manishtank1988 » Sun Sep 03, 2017 8:08 am
Can anyone/you elaborate as to why C is wrong?
I see it as following -
The thing [that caused the $100 million museum's approval and construction to take 12 years] was a combination of the complexity of the financing requirements and the opposition of several small but vocal constituencies.
Main clause - The thing [that caused the $100 million museum's approval and construction to take 12 years] was a combination of the complexity of the financing requirements and the opposition of several small but vocal constituencies.

I understand that this is a substantive clause starting with relative pronoun "what" but i got this question wrong as i only realized it when i saw the answer and explanation. So can anyone please elaborate as to why to choose A compared to C
OR
how to understand as to when A (substantive clause) to use and when to use C(normal construction) ?
Helpful resource:
Magoosh Substantive clause - https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/substanti ... -the-gmat/
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