However much governments around the world may agree that

[harpreet1205]

source: veritas free practice test

However much governments around the world may agree that nuclear proliferation must be halted and that steps should be implemented to reduce the level of nuclear stockpiles, it is difficult for countries to come to agreement on the specific methods of implementing such practices.


1. However much governments around the world may agree that
2. Despite the agreement among governments around the world to the fact that
3. Although governments around the world agree
4. Even though governments around the world may agree
5. Despite there being agreement among governments around the world that



answer is 1.
The explanation says that the word "that is necessary to maintain parallelism but the isn't modifier "much" in front of governments wrong shouldn't many be used?

[RonPurewal]

"(However) much" is an adverb that describes the verb "agree".
If you didn't understand that "(however) much" is intended to describe the extent of agreement, then you were thinking too much about mechanics, and not enough about intended meaning, during your initial reading of the problem.
Remember! During your initial reading, you should not think about anything except intended meaning.
Save the mechanics for the answer choices, where you can actually see decision points.

[RonPurewal]

By the way, this problem has essentially zero value, as it's a nearly exact copy of #3 in the OG Verbal supplement. (They didn't even bother to change the order of the answer choices!) There's no sense in using carbon copies of OG problems when you can just use the actual OG.