Read the following sentence from an academic essay draft:
"A meticulous analysis of the historical documents, alongside recent archaeological discoveries from the excavation sites, reveal that the ancient trade routes were far more extensive than previously assumed."
Which of the following revisions correctly maintains standard subject-verb agreement?
- A meticulous analysis of the historical documents, alongside recent archaeological discoveries from the excavation sites, reveals that the ancient trade routes were far more extensive than previously assumed.Cevap
- BA meticulous analysis of the historical documents, alongside recent archaeological discoveries from the excavation sites, reveal that the ancient trade routes were far more extensive than previously assumed.
- CA meticulous analysis of the historical documents, alongside recent archaeological discoveries from the excavation sites, are revealing that the ancient trade routes were far more extensive than previously assumed.
- DA meticulous analysis of the historical documents, alongside recent archaeological discoveries from the excavation sites, have revealed that the ancient trade routes was far more extensive than previously assumed.
- EA meticulous analysis of the historical documents, alongside recent archaeological discoveries from the excavation sites, reveals that the ancient trade routes was far more extensive than previously assumed.
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The revision that changes 'reveal' to 'reveals' while preserving 'were' correctly maintains subject-verb agreement across both the main clause and the dependent clause.
The simple subject of the main clause is 'analysis', which is singular. Expressions introduced by 'alongside', 'together with', or 'as well as' are prepositional modifiers and do not create a plural compound subject. Therefore, the singular verb 'reveals' is required. Additionally, the plural subject 'routes' in the dependent clause correctly matches the plural verb 'were'.
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Subject-Verb Agreement with Intervening Prepositional Phrases