Teachers at a public high school stated that although anti-r

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Teachers at a public high school stated that although anti-racism workshops had been conducted with the student body, the incidence of racist remarks were still considerably high.


A. although anti-racism workshops had been conducted with the student body, the incidence of racist remarks were

B. even though anti-racism workshops have been conducted with the student body, the incidence of racist remarks was

C. although anti-racism workshops are being conducted with the student body, the incidence of racist remarks is

D. although anti-racism workshops are conducted with the student body, the incidence of racist remarks was

E. even though anti-racism workshops had been conducted with the student body, the incidence of racist remarks was

OA E

Source: Economist Gmat

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Option A:- INCORRECT
incidence as a noun being used in the sentence is a singular noun. And it is should attract singular verb
were is a plural past verb but and does not follow concord.
Please note that the subject that attracts the verb is not remarks but incidence

Option B:- INCORRECT
'The workshop' event happened in the past so that so it should attract 'had' the past participle of 'have' .

Option C:- INCORRECT
is- is a total a total turn off, is which is a third person singular form of be can never be used to express this sentence, being that it happened in the past so a past participle verb is required.

Option D:- INCORRECT
Are , which is a second person singular verb cannot be used to illustrate an even that happened in that past.
A past participle verb is required.

Option E:- CORRECT
Correct past tense verb are used and it follows normal parallelism.