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Read the following four advanced sentences containing complex morphosyntactic structures, subject-verb concord rules, subjunctive moods, and correlative conjunction constraints: I. Neither the chief executive officer nor the regional directors was willing to compromise on the revised corporate governance policies during the turbulent annual general meeting. II. It is imperative that every department head submits their quarterly expenditure report directly to the internal audit committee before the end of the fiscal week. III. The board of trustees, despite facing intense pressure from institutional shareholders and independent regulatory bodies, has unanimously approved the merger proposal. IV. Had the meteorological department issued a severe storm warning earlier, the international flight would not have been diverted to an alternate landing strip. Identify the option that correctly evaluates the grammatical, syntactic, and structural validity of sentences I, II, III, and IV according to standard English grammar.
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Detailed Explanation
To evaluate the sentences:
I. Is grammatically INCORRECT. According to the rule of Agreement (linguistics) with correlative conjunctions like 'neither...nor', the verb must agree with the subject closest to it. Here, the closer subject is 'regional directors' (plural), so the verb should be plural ('were') instead of singular ('was').
II. Is grammatically INCORRECT. The sentence uses a mandative subjunctive structure following the adjective 'imperative'. In standard English, mandative clauses require the base form of the verb (bare infinitive) without any inflection, so 'submits' must be corrected to 'submit'.
III. Is grammatically CORRECT. 'The board of trustees' functions as a collective noun acting as a single unit, taking the singular verb 'has', and the intervening prepositional phrase does not disrupt subject-verb concord.
IV. Is grammatically CORRECT. It correctly employs the third conditional structure with a past counterfactual inversion ('Had the meteorological department issued...') and the correct modal perfect consequent ('would not have been diverted').
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