Honestly I do not know "Oneida" is a word similar to "Americans" (and hence requires plural verb), but I like the idea raised by a student (and approved by Ron) in the above link:
Two Possibilities: 1) For somebody who doesn't know about Oneida would take it as a league/ some association/nation and hence singular. In that case, 'was' would be correct and 'who' would be incorrect.
2) If I know that "the Oneida" refers to an entire tribe / group / race and hence plural, then 'was' would be incorrect and 'who' would be correct.
So in both the cases option 'A' would be wrong.
问你道题目吧，有空帮我看看，很简单我就是纠结什么是集合名词，是集体名词么？manhatten里面讲的集体名词不是用单数么？ army 什么的，都用单数啊。 Greatly influenced by the Protestant missionary Samuel Kirkland, the Oneida was the only one of the five-nation Iroquois League who sided with the colonists during the American Revolution.
(A) was the only one of the five-nation Iroquois League who sided (B) was alone of the five-nation Iroquois League when they sided (C) alone among the five nations of the Iroquois League sided (D) were the only ones out of the five nations of the Iroquois League in siding (E) only of the five-nation Iroquois League had sided -- by 会员 evamimi (2012/3/28 20:30:29)
"the only one of ... who"这个表达在这个句子里没问题。 比如 evimimi is the only one of my friends who is taking the gold-medal GMAT course. 这里"who has taken the GMAT"修饰"the only one of my friends"这个名词结构，该名词结构的核心名词是"one"，后面的"of my friends"是mission-critical modifier.
这题我也错了，我看Ron/Stacey解释的意思，是说the Oneida相当于the Chinese。 The Chinese are intelligent and hardworking. 类似这样的句子，谓语动词用are. 因为说的是people，就是Stacey说的tribe / group / race
this gets complicated with native american tribes. for example, * 'the iroquois nation' is an 'it', not a 'who', but * 'the iroquois' is a plural 'who', for exactly the same reason cited by stacey above.
if you aren't from the u.s., i can understand your confusion. do try to internalize the patterns you see here, though; the gmat loooooves questions involving gratuitous facts about various minorities, and native american tribes certainly qualify for inclusion in that category.
Honestly I do not know "Oneida" is a word similar to "Americans" (and hence requires plural verb), but I like the idea raised by a student (and approved by Ron) in the above link:
Two Possibilities: 1) For somebody who doesn't know about Oneida would take it as a league/ some association/nation and hence singular. In that case, 'was' would be correct and 'who' would be incorrect.
2) If I know that "the Oneida" refers to an entire tribe / group / race and hence plural, then 'was' would be incorrect and 'who' would be correct.
So in both the cases option 'A' would be wrong.
问你道题目吧，有空帮我看看，很简单我就是纠结什么是集合名词，是集体名词么？manhatten里面讲的集体名词不是用单数么？ army 什么的，都用单数啊。 Greatly influenced by the Protestant missionary Samuel Kirkland, the Oneida was the only one of the five-nation Iroquois League who sided with the colonists during the American Revolution.
(A) was the only one of the five-nation Iroquois League who sided (B) was alone of the five-nation Iroquois League when they sided (C) alone among the five nations of the Iroquois League sided (D) were the only ones out of the five nations of the Iroquois League in siding (E) only of the five-nation Iroquois League had sided -- by 会员 evamimi (2012/3/28 20:30:29)
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