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A question regarding noun clause/substantive clauses.

by TarunK667 Sun Jul 17, 2016 2:18 pm

Recently I came across a source that said that following two sentences are correct:

What concerns me is election results.
What concern me are election results.

Are both of these sentences correct? As far as I know, noun clauses "what concerns me" or what concern me" are singular subjects so should take singular verbs, but above mentioned sentences also looks correct to me. Can you please help?

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Re: A question regarding noun clause/substantive clauses.

by RonPurewal Sat Jul 23, 2016 3:50 am

TarunK667 Wrote:Recently I came across a source that said...


please respect the forum rules. you can't do this ^^ ... you need to IDENTIFY the source.
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Re: A question regarding noun clause/substantive clauses.

by RonPurewal Sat Jul 23, 2016 3:51 am

the first sentence is legitimate; the second one isn't.
the only official problem that has ever tested anything of this sort is this problem:
https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/foru ... t7994.html

if you have a source that seems to differ, then you need to post a new thread EXPLICITLY IDENTIFYING the source, and also reproducing the COMPLETE problem, exactly as originally provided (including all answer choices, if answer choices were originally provided).
thanks.