Its 12:02 a.m. of the 17^th Day of May 2007 and I'm sitting in my room, listening to the song "Starry-starry night" by Don McLean and wondering why verbs and subjects disagree… It's raining outside and the sound of the drizzle and the smell of the earth is mesmerizing me. The blank screen of my notebook is enticing me to pen down a few nothings….

 All you paramours of language, today, in this beautiful night, I am going to make verbs agree with their subjects. Here are my proposals for the marital peace of subjects and their verbs.

Main Proposal: Let plural subjects take plural verbs and singular subjects roam about with singular verbs.

Proposal 1:- When two or more nouns are present, ask the verb to agree with its proper subject instead of the noun near it.
The quality of language in British books is outstanding.
All the books on the rack are the law books.
 
Proposal 2:- Some nouns are plural by nature and like to be with plural verbs. Following are the names of these famous nouns-
Savings, thanks, surroundings, riches, goods, outskirts, belongings, particulars, premises, clothes, earnings, congratulations, people, police and staff.

Proposal 3:- When the verb is holding hands with two or more subjects and wearing either…or or neither…nor, use a singular verb if the last subject is singular and a plural verb if the last subject is plural.
Neither Levin nor Kitty wants to live in a city.
Either John Galt or his representatives are to stop the motor of the world.
Either nurses or the doctor is responsible for the wrong operation.
 
Proposal 4:- When two bachelor (singular) subjects are joined by spinster "and", they form a pair (plural)
Dolly and Oblonsky were the first one to arrive.
Bob and Roger are playing a guitar.

Proposal 5:- Listen to what nouns suggest, if they suggest one idea to the mind, or refer to same person or thing, then the verb would rather stay single.
Bread and butter is kept in the refrigerator.
Time and tide waits for none.

Proposal 6:- Be cautious with the following-
Everyone, no one, anybody, somebody, everything, each and every, each of, neither of, the majority of, all of, some of and uncountable nouns.
All of food is stolen.
Knock! Knock! Is anybody there?

Proposal 7:-  Economics, civics, statistics, news, mathematics, wages, linguistics, phonetics, politics etc are plural in form but singular in meaning and take a singular verb.
Mathematics is TG's passion.
Politics is the major part of the corporate world.

Proposal 8:-  When there is a group of nouns (Collective nouns), a singular verb should be brought into action. When the individuals of this group are addressed, we would like to use plural verbs.
The crowd is maddening.
The population of Japan is on its life time low this year.
 
Proposal 9:-  When noun denotes some specific quantity or amount considered as a whole, we should agree on a singular verb.
One-fourth of the work is completed by William.
The five thousand yen that he gave me was spent in a single day.

Proposal 10:-  There are outsiders (words and phrases)  besides 'and' that attach themselves to the subject and make it look plural but the subject still stays the same. These are the famous intruders  -as well as, accompanied by, including, along with, in addition to and together with. So verbs, be careful!
Leonidas, along with his 300 Spartans, is going to fight against the Persian army.
Books, as well as music, are my passion.

Proposal 11:-  When the subject is commanding, ordering, or suggesting  "you", the person being directed by the subject has to disappear. (Subject expects itself to be understood)
(You) Listen to the sound of the music!
(You) Suggest a plan for the month.

Proposal 12:-  Both subject and verb give special preference to "None". None can be treated as both singular and plural until someone else in the crowd doesn't recognise its number.
None of the men are ready for the war,
None of the men is ready for the war.
None of the dancers have given their best. (Here you can't use singular because the word "their" precludes the use of the singular verb.)

Proposal 13:-  Sometimes nouns are playing tricks with you. They can beguile you into thinking they are plural when they are not. Nouns such as pants, pliers, glasses and scissors are regarded as plural (and prefer being with plural verbs) unless they're preceded  by the phrase pair of, so be careful!
The scissors are lying on the table.
A pair of scissors is lying on the table.

Proposal 14:- If the sentence is giving both positive and negative vibes, the verb will respond only to the subject giving positive vibes..
It is not Cynthia but her sisters who are married.
It was the subject of the movie, not the actors, that has charmed the audience.

Now after being proposed in fourteen different ways, the verbs will find it difficult not to agree with their subjects.

Its 4o clock in the morning and the cuckoo bird on the tree beside my window has started singing. It's still drizzling outside silently, reminding me of a song…

Sometimes I need some time...on my own
Sometimes I need some time...all alone
Everybody needs some time...on their own
Don't you know you need some time...all alone
……………
'Cause nothing' lasts forever
Even cold November rain

So here I, with puffy eyes and fatigued body, end my article. *Yawn* Goodnight or Good Morning, whichever it is.
                                                   

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Thanks Dagny,

beautiful aritcle. Could you help us with some sentences to be corrected on subject verb agreement.

regards,

Nitya.

Thank you!

You have still not gone to sleep?

Really a good article. Fun to read and lot to extract from it.

I am only two days old in TG and have become a huge fan b'cause of  the quality of material available here.

Wonderful article. The way its written will help in keeping it memory for a longer time...

Loads-a-thanks

Kiran

Happy solving

1.         Among the emotions on display in the negotiating room were anger for repeatedly raising the issue over and over again and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles from ever beginning to heal.

(A) were anger for repeatedly raising the issue over and over again and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles from ever beginning to heal

(B) was anger for repeatedly raising the issue and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles from ever beginning to heal

(C) were anger over repeatedly raising the issue and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles to begin healing

(D) was anger about the issue, which was raised over and over, and preventing the wounds from earlier battles, still raw, to begin healing（B）

(E) were anger about the issue, which was raised repeatedly, and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles to begin to heal

2.         Although the bite of brown recluse spiders are rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its poison.

(A) brown recluse spiders are rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its

(B) brown recluse spiders are rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds and pose the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to their

(C) the brown recluse spider is rarely fatal, it causes chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to their

(D) the brown recluse spider is rarely fatal, it causes chronic flesh wounds and poses the greatest danger to infants and the elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its（D）

(E) the brown recluse spider is rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its

3.         After this year’s record-shattering January performance in Madison Square Garden, the ensemble were touted as the country’s best new group in decades; no critic or reviewer had anything but praise for the young musicians.

(A) the ensemble were touted as the country’s

(B) the ensemble was touted as the country’s

(C) the country touted the ensemble like the

(D) touting the ensemble as the country’s（B）

(E) they were touting the ensemble as the country’s

4.         A new phenomena, which is visible at Managua’s major intersections, are waves of vendors and beggars, which include many children and mob cars at the stoplights.

(A) A new phenomena, which is visible at Managua’s major intersections, are waves of vendors and beggars, which include many children and

(B) Visible at Managua’s major intersections are waves of vendors and beggars with many children, new phenomena that

(C) A new phenomenon visible at Managua’s major intersections is waves of vendors and beggars, many of them children, who

(D) Phenomenally new waves of vendors, beggars, and many children are visible at Managua’s major intersections, which（C）

(E) A wave of vendors and beggars, many of whom are children, are visible at Managua’s major intersections, where they are a new phenomenon and

5.         A Labor Department study states that the numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase in the past decade and accounted for more than sixty-two percent of the total growth in the civilian work force.

(A) numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase

(B) numbers of women employed outside the home grew more than thirty-five percent

(C) numbers of women employed outside the home were raised by more than thirty-five percent

(D) number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent（D）

(E) number of women employed outside the home was raised by more than a thirty-five percent increase

6.         Because paper of all kinds is the biggest single component of municipal trash, many municipalities have tried recycling to reduce the cost of trash disposal.

(A) Because paper of all kinds is the biggest single component of municipal trash, many municipalities have tried recycling to reduce the cost of trash disposal.

(B) Because paper of all kinds is the biggest single component in municipal trash, many municipalities tried to recycle so that the cost of trash disposal is reduced.

(C) Because paper of all kinds are the biggest single components in municipal trash, many municipalities have tried to recycle to reduce the cost of trash disposal.

(D) All kinds of paper are the biggest single components of municipal trash, and so many municipalities have tried recycling to reduce the cost of trash disposal.（A）

(E) All kinds of paper is the biggest single component of municipal trash, so many municipalities have tried to recycle so that the cost of trash disposal could be reduced.

7.         Chinese, the most ancient of living writing systems, consists of tens of thousands of ideographic characters, each character a miniature calligraphic composition inside its own square frame.

(A) each character a miniature calligraphic composition inside its

(B) all the characters a miniature calligraphic composition inside their

(C) all the characters a miniature calligraphic composition inside its

(D) every character a miniature calligraphic composition inside their（A）

(E) each character a miniature calligraphic composition inside their

8.         Discrimination in wages paid in occupations that are predominantly male over the predominantly female have given rise to substantial differentials between the wage of housepainters and secretaries and between the wages of parking-lot attendants and library assistants.

(A) paid in occupations that are predominantly male over the predominantly female have

(B) paid in occupations that are predominantly make over those that are predominantly female have

(C) that favors predominantly male occupations over the predominantly female have

(D) that favors predominantly male occupations over those that are predominantly female has（E）

(E) paid in predominantly male occupations over the predominantly female has

9.         Displays of the aurora borealis, or “northern lights,” can heat the atmosphere over the arctic enough to affect the trajectories of ballistic missiles, induce electric currents that can cause blackouts in some areas and corrosion in north-south pipelines.

(A) to affect the trajectories of ballistic missiles, induce

(B) that the trajectories of ballistic missiles are affected, induce

(C) that it affects the trajectories of ballistic missiles, induces

(D) that the trajectories of ballistic missiles are affected and induces（E）

(E) to affect the trajectories of ballistic missiles and induce

10.     Dr. Sayre’s lecture recounted several little-known episodes in the relations between nations that illustrates what is wrong with alliances and treaties that do not have popular support.

(A) relations between nations that illustrates

(B) relation of one nation with another that illustrates

(C) relations between nations that illustrate

               (E) relations of nations that illustrates


                                                                                 

b,d,b,c,d,b(not usure),a,e,e,c

Eagerly waiting for the answers....and hoping that only few are wrong

My replies are as under :

1. b 

2. c

3. b

4. c

5. d

6. b

7. a

8. c

9. e  and

10. b

Waiting for the correct answers.

Regards

Temperamental

Hi Dagny,

answers are:

1. b

2. d

3. b

4. e

5. d

6. c

7. a

8. d

9. d

10. d

This one is for you.Enjoy

Dagny

1. d

2. d

3. b

4. e

5. d

6. a

7. a

8. d

9. e

10. c

Hope at leat one is correct...

KayBee(Kiran)

Hi Dagny,

Thanks for waiting for us.

Here is my set of replies.

1) c
2) b
3) b
4) c
5) d
6) a
7) a
8) b
9) e
10) b

thanks,

Nitya.

BRUSQUE- Saying something with very few words but in a rude tone.

Usage: The policeman enquired about the missing boy in a brusque tone.

DECANT- To pour liquid from one container to another.

Usage: He asked the waiter to decant the drink into his mug.

BURLESQUE- Give an imitation that ridicules;parody

Usage: The incident was burlesqued by the media.

COMPLACENT- Too much at ease(negative);disinclined to worry

Usage: The government is complacent towards the increasing threat of the LTTE to Indian coatal areas.

 DESCANT-a melody played or harmony sung above the main tune.

Usage:He used to descant critically on the dishes which had been at table.

AMIABLE-Friendly and agreeable in disposition; good-natured and likable.

Usage: It is easy to be amiable on the midst of happiness and success.

AMICABLE-done or achieved in a friendly manner without argument.

Usage:When opposing sides are "amiable" (trying to be accommodating), they often quickly reach an "amicable" (suitable to both) agreement.

ESOTERIC-intended for or understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge

Usage:His esoteric ideas sometimes alienated him from others.

EXOTERIC-Suitable for the general public.

Usage:The "esoteric" (understood by only a chosen few) poetry of today may be "exoteric" (simple; commonplace) in twenty years.

BEDRAGGLED-Soiled by or as if by having been dragged through mud;Being in a condition of deterioration; dilapidated

Usage:He was thoroughly drenched amd bedraggled because of the unexpected rainfall. 

Thanks

KayBee(Kiran)

Thank You..Infact that was a good initiative ....we can discuss 10 good words every day...this ll help us in building up a good vocabulary .

Wat is important is the usage of words..there are words whose literal meaning is completely different from its contextual usage....a good example being DESCANT... We can have an altogether different section where we pick the daily words and come back with their meanings and usage.

KayBee.

Therz no substitute to hard work.

WOW!

great pic...Thanks Dagny.

Bharath.

Cool Dagny and Kay Bee...

Good selection of words there by Dagny and equally good responses by Kay Bee.

Looking forward to learn more from the Pundits at TG.com.

Regards

Temperamental

Hi Dagny,

Can you please explain why the answers for Q6 and Q10 are A and B.

Thanks.

Hey Tempo,

Everything fine but where are your sentences?

Dagny

Ok Dagny, here is my attempt in making 'meaningful' sentences.

BRUSQUE

The girl at the sales counter talked to me in a brusque manner when I enquired about her marital status.

DECANT

Decantation is a fundamental physical principle finding its industrial application in day to day life.

BURLESQUE

I chuckled after seeing burlesque images of some of the great politicians in the newspaper.

COMPLACENT

I don't like to sit complacent with my present job; instead I wish to explore more avenues further.

 DESCANT

I danced to the mellifluous tunes of the descant music played inside my room.

AMIABLE

Girls are rarely amiable with the guys who are strangers.

AMICABLE

I tried to end their quarrel amicably, but they didn't budge even an inch from their stands.

ESOTERIC

The esoteric nature of women hasn't been understood even by the greatest philosophers.

EXOTERIC

The ubiquitous parks spread all over the locality can't simply be classisfied as exoteric, as they also serve a great purpose of keeping our environment clean.

BEDRAGGLED

I got thoroughly bedraggled after being caught in the heavy rainfall on the highway. 

Regards

Temperamental

Thank you Dagny.

A little doubt...

Isn't 'decantation' the noun of 'decant' ?

And yeah, Kay Bee was awesome.

Regards

Temperamental

You are absolutely right Signore!! Decantation is the noun form for ‘decant’

 Dagny

Hi All,

I have started a vocabulary thread in CAT Verbal Forum. I will be posting 10 words every hence and forth over there. Please do the exercises regularly. I want all of you to possess a good vocabulary when you go for your interviews and GD PIs. After all, you belong to the ‘Gadha Family’.

 Dagny

excellent thread...

3 cheers to TG for throwing light on such imp points

Hi Dangy ,

Thanks for a nice presentation on S-v agreement. question selection was awesome.

It will be great if someone can explain the answers to question 8.

To be very straight ..why option D is not correct.

(D) that favors predominantly male occupations over those that are predominantly female has.

(E) paid in predominantly male occupations over the predominantly female has

Hi Dagny,

Here are the answers...

1. b

2. d

3. b

4. d

5. d

6. b

7. a

8. e

9. e

10. c

Waiting for your answers

Regards,

Ashwini

Hi Dagny,

A good article indeed..Beneficial too..I ahve a doubt , please clearify it...

In Proposal 5:- Listen to what nouns suggest, if they suggest one idea to the mind, or refer to same person or thing, then the verb would rather stay single....

U have given the exampkle - "Bread and Butter is kept in the refrigerator"..they are different things altogether...neither they are under "single idea" group...so shud it be "Bread and Butter are kept in the refrigerator"...Please clearify this point.

hello ma'm

I read the following in my coaching institute's studey material...pls clear my confusion...

"When one of the subects joined by or or nor is plural,the verb must be plural and the plural subject should be placed nearest to the verb"

Do we have to follow the above rule always or shud we stick to the rule: the verb will take the form according to the subject near the verb.?

Regards

AMAR

10.     Dr. Sayre’s lecture recounted several little-known episodes in the relations between nations that illustrates what is wrong with alliances and treaties that do not have popular support.

(A) relations between nations that illustrates

(B) relation of one nation with another that illustrates

(C) relations between nations that illustrate

When one dreams ， one is usually asleep

When one dreams ， he is  usually asleep .

which one is correct?

in proposal 7 u have given that 'wages' should be considered as singular in use...

'wages are low' / "wages is low"...

but first sentence seems to be correct one ......... is it second that shd be correct?

(A) paid in occupations that are predominantly male over the predominantly female have

(B) paid in occupations that are predominantly male over those that are predominantly female have

(C) that favors predominantly male occupations over the predominantly female have

(D) that favors predominantly male occupations over those that are predominantly female has（E）

(E) paid in predominantly male occupations over the predominantly female has

Hi Tg, why cant the option B be answer????.........too confused....

 my ans r

1 E

2 C

3 B

4 C

5 D

6 A

7 A

8 D

9 E

10 B

hope i clear the cut offssss  by the way plzz tell the right answers......

Hi Dagny

i had a doubt regarding the Proposal 5: Is "Time and Tide wait for none." wrong ??

Ankit

Hi Dagny,

1. Among the emotions on display in the negotiating room were anger for repeatedly raising the issue over and over again and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles from ever beginning to heal.

(A) were anger for repeatedly raising the issue over and over again and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles from ever beginning to heal –split 2/3 rule used

(B) was anger for repeatedly raising the issue and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles from ever beginning to heal –" among the emotions " – singular verb should be used as collective noun has been used.

(C) were anger over repeatedly raising the issue and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles to begin healing – were cnt be used as mentioned above

(D) was anger about the issue, which was raised over and over, and preventing the wounds from earlier battles, still raw, to begin healing – raised is bringing up a child; word usage is wrong

(E) were anger about the issue, which was raised repeatedly, and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles to begin to heal – were is not be used

2. Although the bite of brown recluse spiders are rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its poison.

(A) brown recluse spiders are rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its--- 2/3 rule

(B) brown recluse spiders are rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds and pose the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to their—subject is brown recluse spiders which is collective in nature so singular verb to be used and so as singular pronoun…there is not singular

(C) the brown recluse spider is rarely fatal, it causes chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to their-- subject is brown recluse spiders which is collective in nature so singular verb to be used and so as singular pronoun…there is not singular

(D) the brown recluse spider is rarely fatal, it causes chronic flesh wounds and poses the greatest danger to infants and the elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its

(E) the brown recluse spider is rarely fatal, they cause chronic flesh wounds, posing the greatest danger to the infant and elderly, who are particularly vulnerable to its—again they cant be used with pronoun "its"

3. After this year’s record-shattering January performance in Madison Square Garden, the ensemble were touted as the country’s best new group in decades; no critic or reviewer had anything but praise for the young musicians.

(A) the ensemble were touted as the country’s – 2/3

(B) the ensemble was touted as the country’s –in statement ensemble is a group so singular verb is to be used—it seems correct

(C) the country touted the ensemble like the –like is not the correct usage

(D) touting the ensemble as the country’s—touting is in present tense, and had is in past. Tense redundancy

(E) they were touting the ensemble as the country’s—pronoun should refer to an antecedent which is not present.

4. A new phenomena, which is visible at Managua’s major intersections, are waves of vendors and beggars, which include many children and mob cars at the stoplights.

(A) A new phenomena, which is visible at Managua’s major intersections, are waves of vendors and beggars, which include many children and –2/3

(B) Visible at Managua’s major intersections are waves of vendors and beggars with many children, new phenomena that –not correct sentence formation, also pronoun which(should refer to persons) got clicked into my mind and then started looking into other options

(C) A new phenomenon visible at Managua’s major intersections is waves of vendors and beggars, many of them children, who---Pheneomenon subject should have a singular verb

(D) Phenomenally new waves of vendors, beggars, and many children are visible at Managua’s major intersections, which— not correct sentence formation, should start with "phenomenon"

(E) A wave of vendors and beggars, many of whom are children, are visible at Managua’s major intersections, where they are a new phenomenon and-- not correct sentence formation, should start with "phenomenon"

5. A Labor Department study states that the numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase in the past decade and accounted for more than sixty-two percent of the total growth in the civilian work force.

(A) numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase—2/3

(B) numbers of women employed outside the home grew more than thirty-five percent—the first thing that came into my mind is data redundancu of word grew and increase. Both have same meaning so sentence should not contain both the options

(C) numbers of women employed outside the home were raised by more than thirty-five percent—raised is bringing up

(D) number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent—looks correct

(E) number of women employed outside the home was raised by more than a thirty-five percent increase—same reason as in option c

6. Because paper of all kinds is the biggest single component of municipal trash, many municipalities have tried recycling to reduce the cost of trash disposal.

(A) Because paper of all kinds is the biggest single component of municipal trash, many municipalities have tried recycling to reduce the cost of trash disposal.

(B) Because paper of all kinds is the biggest single component in municipal trash, many municipalities tried to recycle so that the cost of trash disposal is reduced. –look at word so that the making sentence redundant

(C) Because paper of all kinds are the biggest single components in municipal trash, many municipalities have tried to recycle to reduce the cost of trash disposal.- paper of all kinds is singular so singular verb is to be used

(D) All kinds of paper are the biggest single components of municipal trash, and so many municipalities have tried recycling to reduce the cost of trash disposal.—Statement may giving reason to the paragraph that’s why Because word has been used so sentence should have the word "Because"

(E) All kinds of paper is the biggest single component of municipal trash, so many municipalities have tried to recycle so that the cost of trash disposal could be reduced.-- Statement may giving reason to the paragraph that’s why Because word has been used so sentence should have the word "Because"

7. Chinese, the most ancient of living writing systems, consists of tens of thousands of ideographic characters, each character a miniature calligraphic composition inside its own square frame.

(A) each character a miniature calligraphic composition inside its--

(B) all the characters a miniature calligraphic composition inside their

(C) all the characters a miniature calligraphic composition inside its-- Pronoun should refer to its antecedent rule applied

(D) every character a miniature calligraphic composition inside their—Pronoun should refer to its antecedent rule applied

(E) each character a miniature calligraphic composition inside their-- Pronoun should refer to its antecedent rule applied

8. Discrimination in wages paid in occupations that are predominantly male over the predominantly female have given rise to substantial differentials between the wage of housepainters and secretaries and between the wages of parking-lot attendants and library assistants.

(A) paid in occupations that are predominantly male over the predominantly female have

(B) paid in occupations that are predominantly make over those that are predominantly female have -- make over is something I feel awkward

(C) that favors predominantly male occupations over the predominantly female have -- Favours is beyound the scope, cnt extract the info from passage

(D) that favors predominantly male occupations over those that are predominantly female has---- Favours is beyound the scope, cnt extract the info from passage

(E) paid in predominantly male occupations over the predominantly female has ---- This option giving the same idea as stated.

9. Displays of the aurora borealis, or "northern lights," can heat the atmosphere over the arctic enough to affect the trajectories of ballistic missiles, induce electric currents that can cause blackouts in some areas and corrosion in north-south pipelines.

(A) to affect the trajectories of ballistic missiles, induce --

(B) that the trajectories of ballistic missiles are affected, induce—verb are is making the sentence definite wheras above sentence looks like may or may not kind of situation

(C) that it affects the trajectories of ballistic missiles, induces --

(D) that the trajectories of ballistic missiles are affected and induces—

(E) to affect the trajectories of ballistic missiles and induce

10. Dr. Sayre’s lecture recounted several little-known episodes in the relations between nations that illustrates what is wrong with alliances and treaties that do not have popular support.

(A) relations between nations that illustrates

(B) relation of one nation with another that illustrates--Redundant

(C) relations between nations that illustrate –no opinions

(D) relation of one nation with another and illustrate）---Redundant

Dagny, could you please provide me the explanation of "9" as I somehow got stuck in the options…..

CherrrssS..

Himanshu

Hi Himanshu,

As of now I am providing you with the explanation for the 9^th question. Will check the rest of the questions as soon as I get time.

The use of the phrasing " can heat.. enough to affect" in A and E are idiomatic. B produces an illogical and ungrammatical statement by making "induce" parallel with the verb "heat" rather than with the appropriate form of the verb affect.  C  lacks agreement in using the singular pronoun "it" to refer to the plural noun "displays".D - is faulty because "induces" cannot fit grammatically with any noun in the sentence.A - incorrectly separates the two infinitives "to affect" and "to induce" with a comma when it should compound them with "and", as does E, the best choice.

I also suggest that you download’ Dagny Taggart file to CAT and GMAT’ from ‘Download it now’ section.

Dagny

Hi Dagny,

Thanks for the explanation. I have already  downloaded the file and getting a rich knowledge from that.

Thanks for the excellent stuff  ...

Himanshu

Hi Dagny,

Thanks for the explanation. I have already  downloaded the file and getting a rich knowledge from that.

Thanks for the excellent stuff  ...

Himanshu

DEAR "DAGNY"

great work man

an awosome article

very useful.

                             - SUYOG

Hi Dangy!!

Accidentally when googled i came to know abt this site today and i am really mesmarized with the tons of content it posts!! I had given an attempt to CAT06 and was really dishearted with the result!! Did'nt cleared the vocab!!. Now i am working in an MNC but still persuing MBA is my dream. This site built a confidence in me to get lots of information which i missed all these days.Now i am starting again my CAT preparation and going for to crack the CAT 08. Thanks a lot Dangy/TG......

- Ragards

  RAGHU

Hi Dagny!

nice to join this TG family...this is really a superb website...

I've a lil doubt...

In the question no 3, I feel there is a mixture of both active n passive voice (which is not allowed in d same sentence)...

Thank u.

Jeevz

My answers are:

B

D

B

C

A

A

E

E

E

Kindly Help with the explaination of Q-10

Best

Dear Dagny

I've a query. Referring question #10, please indicate why the answer choice B is preffered over A?

a) Both use correct verb illustrates in agreement with Doctor's lecture, so the difference is only between 'relations between' & 'relation of'. So why do you prefer the later?

b) Is it idiomatic to use 'relation of'?

Anticipating a quick response.

Really it is very good article

c*

d

b

c

d

a

a

e

e

d*