Ending a contentious political stalemate that frightened global business leaders, the new Italian Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, has finally formed a rare coalition government that united liberals and conservatives - and included a record number of women and Italy's first nonwhite ministers - to guide Italy, Europe's third-largest economy, out of stagnation.
A) frightened global business leaders, the new Italian Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, has finally formed a rare coalition government that united liberals and conservatives - and included a record number of women and Italy's first nonwhite ministers - to guide Italy, Europe's
B)had frightened global business leaders, the new Italian Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, finally formed a rare coalition government uniting liberals and conservatives - and including a record number of women and Italy's first nonwhite minister - to guide Italy, with Europe's
c)had been frightening global business leaders, the new Italian Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, has finally formed a rare coalition government uniting liberals and conservatives - and that include a record number of women and Italy's first nonwhite minister - to guide Italy, which has Europe's
d)had frightened global business leaders, the new Italian Prime Minister, Enrico Letta, finally formed a rare coalition government that united liberals and conservatives - and including a record number of women and Italy's first nonwhite minister - to guide Italy, which has Europe's
e)government to unite liberals and conservatives - and includes a record number of women and Italy's first nonwhite minister - and to guide Italy, with Europe's
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Hi RiyaR,
This should be posted in the SC Forum (this is the I Beat the GMAT Forum), but I'll be happy to help with it regardless.
This is certainly a wordy SC, but there's nothing we can do about that. Grammar rules are still grammar rules though, so you should look for patterns in the answer choices to help you "find" a rule that you can deal with. The answers seem to start off with a variety of verbs, so we'll start there.
1) Verbs: To figure out which verb to use, we need to look at the other verbs in the sentence. Notice that in all the answers "Enrico Letta... formed...."; this is a reference to a past event. The "stalemate that frightened global business leaders" occurred BEFORE Enrico Letta formed the coalition government. We now have 2 past events, so we need the verb phrase "had frightened." Eliminate A, C and E.
2) Verbs Pt. 2: Between B and D, we can now look at the next verb "issue" in line: "uniting" vs. "united." The sentence tells us that Enrico Letta has "finally" formed a coalition government, which describes a relatively recent event. We need to think about whether the united liberals and conservatives are STILL united or if they were united for just a short time (in the past) and now are NOT united. The prompt further mentions how the coalition is meant to guide Italy out of stagnation, so the coalition still exists (it wasn't just in the past). We need the verb "uniting" to convey that idea. Eliminate D.
Final Answer: B
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
This should be posted in the SC Forum (this is the I Beat the GMAT Forum), but I'll be happy to help with it regardless.
This is certainly a wordy SC, but there's nothing we can do about that. Grammar rules are still grammar rules though, so you should look for patterns in the answer choices to help you "find" a rule that you can deal with. The answers seem to start off with a variety of verbs, so we'll start there.
1) Verbs: To figure out which verb to use, we need to look at the other verbs in the sentence. Notice that in all the answers "Enrico Letta... formed...."; this is a reference to a past event. The "stalemate that frightened global business leaders" occurred BEFORE Enrico Letta formed the coalition government. We now have 2 past events, so we need the verb phrase "had frightened." Eliminate A, C and E.
2) Verbs Pt. 2: Between B and D, we can now look at the next verb "issue" in line: "uniting" vs. "united." The sentence tells us that Enrico Letta has "finally" formed a coalition government, which describes a relatively recent event. We need to think about whether the united liberals and conservatives are STILL united or if they were united for just a short time (in the past) and now are NOT united. The prompt further mentions how the coalition is meant to guide Italy out of stagnation, so the coalition still exists (it wasn't just in the past). We need the verb "uniting" to convey that idea. Eliminate D.
Final Answer: B
GMAT assassins aren't born, they're made,
Rich
