MGMAT, SC, Chap 2, Problem Set, Q - 10

[lovesnows08]

"Planting all these seeds is more involved than I thought"

Could you please help me understand the above sentence better? as the book suggest that the above sentence is completely correct.

I feel: "Planting all these seeds is more involving than I thought" would be more appropriate.

Thanking You,
Neha

[lovesnows08]

it's almost been a week..but no reply, it would be kind enough to reply soon.

Thank You,

Neha

[StaceyKoprince]

Sorry it has taken us so long to get back to you! Forum traffic has been very high for the past couple of weeks.

Yes - you want a past participle here (involved) not a present participal (involving). This is a bit of an unusual usage of the word involved - it means something similar to "complicated."
eg:
Planting these seeds is more complicated than I thought.
Planting these seeds is more complicating than I thought.

In either case, you're simply saying that the situation is a complicated situation. If you were trying to say that a situation is currently causing another situation to become more complicated, then you would use complicating. eg, The strong winds are complicating our efforts to stop the spread of the fire.

[lovesnows08]

Thank you... Stacey....

[rfernandez]

We're glad it was helpful!

[carolina.carvalho063]

I don't understand why we should use "is" instead of "are" in this problem. I was under the impression that "All these seeds" should be considered plural. "All" is part of the SANAN pronouns and seeds is plural.

Planting all these seeds (IS/ARE) more involved thant I thought.

I know that "are" does not sound right, however, I can't explain why it should be "IS."

Thank you!

[carolina.carvalho063]

Got it. The subject of the above quote is "planting"

Planting IS...

Thanks anyway!

[StaceyKoprince]

Glad you figured it out yourself! :)