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by gmatnmein2010 » Sat Feb 20, 2010 3:41 am
Because Queen Elizabeth II travels on state business with security, household staff, and advisors, she and her entourage require a large fleet of vehicles.


1)she and her entourage require


2)she and her entourage requires


3)her and her entourage require


4)she and her entourage require that


5)her and her entourage requires
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by thephoenix » Sat Feb 20, 2010 4:19 am
gmatnmein2010 wrote:Because Queen Elizabeth II travels on state business with security, household staff, and advisors, she and her entourage require a large fleet of vehicles.


1)she and her entourage require


2)she and her entourage requires


3)her and her entourage require


4)she and her entourage require that


5)her and her entourage requires
the plural verb "require" agrees with the compound subject "she and her entourage."

a) correct

b) sub - verb does not agree

c)her is in object case incorrect

d)sent fragment

e)incorrectly uses the object case pronoun "her"
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by shashank.ism » Sat Feb 20, 2010 5:59 am
gmatnmein2010 wrote:Because Queen Elizabeth II travels on state business with security, household staff, and advisors, she and her entourage require a large fleet of vehicles.
1)she and her entourage require
2)she and her entourage requires
3)her and her entourage require
4)she and her entourage require that
5)her and her entourage requires
since entourage is a showing a group so "requires" satisfy it
also we will have to use "she" and not "her "
1)she and her entourage require ===wrong
2)she and her entourage requires === correct
3)her and her entourage
require
===wrong
4)she and her entourage
require that
===wrong
5)
her
and her entourage requires ===wrong
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by firdaus117 » Sat Feb 20, 2010 6:09 am
Option A IMO.
The point is that here the two subjects are connected by AND,hence requiring a 'require'.Had they been connected by the connector 'with',I would have opted a singular 'requires'.
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by Fiver » Fri Feb 26, 2010 6:28 am
gmatnmein2010 wrote:Because Queen Elizabeth II travels on state business with security, household staff, and advisors, she and her entourage require a large fleet of vehicles.


1)she and her entourage require


2)she and her entourage requires


3)her and her entourage require


4)she and her entourage require that


5)her and her entourage requires
Technically 'and' guarantees a compound subject and hence the following verb must be in the plural;
however here, when we say that 'she and her entourage require a large fleet of vehicles',
it could mean that 'the queen' and 'the entourage' both require 'one' large fleet of vehicles.

Or it should have been something like they both require one fleet each, which obviously is not the intend of the sentence.
This is as far as i can get.

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by Rajat Khandelwal » Fri Feb 26, 2010 6:37 am
too simple......

Option A
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by kstv » Fri Feb 26, 2010 7:01 am
IMO A.
though entourage is a collective noun , additive and forms a plural subject and takes a plural verb require.
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by prinit » Fri Feb 26, 2010 12:16 pm
gmatnmein2010 wrote:Because Queen Elizabeth II travels on state business with security, household staff, and advisors, she and her entourage require a large fleet of vehicles.


1)she and her entourage require


2)she and her entourage requires


3)her and her entourage require


4)she and her entourage require that


5)her and her entourage requires

My pick is 1.
2- plural verb required , so wrong
3 and 5 are wrong usage.
4 - that is not required here does not fit in the sentence structure..
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by girish3131 » Sun Feb 28, 2010 3:13 am
Mr GMATmein..etc

why dont u put OA even after so many reply.....


IMO A
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