Please explain this.

[tarravasanth]

Hi All,
I found below question bit trickier. please explain if anyone has clue.

" The pies Mother cooled in the window on Christmas Day in the dead of a bleak winter in the 1990's after a long bout with an insidious form of tropical parasite infection was delicious"

The explanation is

after tripping all prepositions, the sentence becomes like below.

"The pies Mother cooled was delicious"

explanation in MGMAT FOV: it should be "were' not "was".

But my question - Do we have plural adjectives?.
when "The pies Mother" becomes subject.."The pies" is adjective and Mother is noun. so how come answer is "were: not "was".

Confused!! Please help on this.

[jnelson0612]

Hi All,
I found below question bit trickier. please explain if anyone has clue.

" The pies Mother cooled in the window on Christmas Day in the dead of a bleak winter in the 1990's after a long bout with an insidious form of tropical parasite infection was delicious"

The explanation is

after tripping all prepositions, the sentence becomes like below.

"The pies Mother cooled was delicious"

explanation in MGMAT FOV: it should be "were' not "was".

But my question - Do we have plural adjectives?.
when "The pies Mother" becomes subject.."The pies" is adjective and Mother is noun. so how come answer is "were: not "was".

Confused!! Please help on this.

Wait! If "Mother" is the noun then are we saying that Mother was delicious? :-)

No, the pies were delicious. "Mother cooled in the window" is just a descriptive phrase describing the pies. Which pies? The pies that Mother cooled in the window. This phrase is just describing the pies further.