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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2008 3:58 am    Post subject: Despite its attractiveness, investing abroad can still pose Reply with quote

Despite its attractiveness, investing abroad can still pose big risks, ranging from the potential for political instability in some countries to the shortage of regulations to protect investors and a serious lack of information about investments in others.

(A) to the shortage of regulations to protect investors and a serious lack of information about investments in others
(B) to the shortage of regulations to protect investors and in others a serious lack of information about investments
(C) and the shortage of regulations to protect investors and a serious lack of information about investments in others
(D) and the shortage of regulations to protect investors to a serious lack of information about investments in others
(E) to the shortage of regulations to protect investors in others and a serious lack of information about investments

OA A

Which is correct
From X to Y and Z
From X and Y to Z

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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2008 9:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Simplyjat

correct form should be "From X to Y and Z" but i made the silly mistake of choosing B instead of A...
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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2008 5:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Actually, I think the phrase is still simply "From X to Y"

but you have to see X as "blah blah blah in some countries" and Y as "blah blah blah in others"

and statement Y has two conditions in it (shortage of regulations and lack of info)


I did not answer this correctly at first but think this is right now.
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PostPosted: Wed May 07, 2008 2:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I choose A because of

range from....to... is correct

if you look more closely, it clearly shows the from part and to part by
specifying
'in some counties' and 'in others'
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PostPosted: Wed May 07, 2008 12:09 pm    Post subject: Re: Despite its attractiveness, investing abroad can still p Reply with quote

simplyjat wrote:
Which is correct

From X to Y and Z
From X and Y to Z


Either could be correct, depending on the meaning of the sentence.

In this particular question, we remember that we always need to stick to the meaning of the original sentence, so we go with choice A.

As an aside:

As Barron points out, the key word in the idiom is "ranging".

We always range FROM a TO b.

In this particular sentence, one of the 2 parts has two examples instead of just 1. Therefore, that part of the sentence gets the "and".

If all three parts were different ideas, we'd use:

Ranging FROM a TO b TO c.

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PostPosted: Wed May 07, 2008 1:06 pm    Post subject: Re: Despite its attractiveness, investing abroad can still p Reply with quote

Agree with Stuart, in this case X is one extreme and Y and Z form the other extreme in the defined range.

Stuart Kovinsky wrote:
simplyjat wrote:
Which is correct

From X to Y and Z
From X and Y to Z


Either could be correct, depending on the meaning of the sentence.

In this particular question, we remember that we always need to stick to the meaning of the original sentence, so we go with choice A.

As an aside:

As Barron points out, the key word in the idiom is "ranging".

We always range FROM a TO b.

In this particular sentence, one of the 2 parts has two examples instead of just 1. Therefore, that part of the sentence gets the "and".

If all three parts were different ideas, we'd use:

Ranging FROM a TO b TO c.
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