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by agarwalva » Tue May 15, 2012 6:44 pm
Having lost his sight to sustained eyestrain, John Milton nevertheless composed Paradise Lost, considered by many to be the greatest English epic.

A) Having lost his sight to sustained eyestrain
B) With this sight lost to sustained eyestrain
C) Blinded by sustained eyestrain
D) Having been blinded by excessive eyestrain
E) Blinded with sustained eyestrain


OA C
What wrong with A
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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Tue May 15, 2012 6:59 pm
It is less direct than C. "having lost his sight to" and "blinded by" mean essentially the same thing, but why use five words when two will do?[/spoiler]
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by heymayank08 » Wed May 16, 2012 9:06 am
Bill@VeritasPrep wrote:It is less direct than {spoiler]C[/spoiler]. "having lost his sight to" and "blinded by" mean essentially the same thing, but why use five words when two will do?
i got it bill
but
is blinded by an idiom

or whats the problem with blinded with??
pls explain
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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Wed May 16, 2012 10:09 am
If we're using it passively (as in someone "received" blindness, as odd as that sounds), then it's "blinded by". "He was blinded by a fever during his infancy."

If we're using it actively (as in causing blindness), we could use "blinded with." "She blinded her attacker with pepper spray."
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by GmatKiss » Wed May 16, 2012 7:22 pm
Having lost his sight to sustained eyestrain, John Milton nevertheless composed Paradise Lost, considered by many to be the greatest English epic.

A) Having lost his sight to sustained eyestrain
B) With this sight lost to sustained eyestrain
C) Blinded by sustained eyestrain - Parallel
D) Having been blinded by excessive eyestrain
E) Blinded with sustained eyestrain
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by alex.gellatly » Wed May 16, 2012 10:58 pm
Bill@VeritasPrep wrote:It is less direct than {spoiler]C[/spoiler]. "having lost his sight to" and "blinded by" mean essentially the same thing, but why use five words when two will do?
I understand your argument... but I thought the GMAT prefers the active voice vs the passive.
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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Thu May 17, 2012 7:11 am
alex.gellatly wrote:
Bill@VeritasPrep wrote:It is less direct than {spoiler]C[/spoiler]. "having lost his sight to" and "blinded by" mean essentially the same thing, but why use five words when two will do?
I understand your argument... but I thought the GMAT prefers the active voice vs the passive.
A preference is not an absolute rule. We should look for a good active-voice answer choice when possible, but the GMAT is clever enough to turn that against us on occasion.
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by hey_thr67 » Thu May 17, 2012 9:53 am
@GMATKiss: You can do without parallelism in modifiers. parallelism should come in clauses.

@alex: blinded with is not in main clause but in modifier. Secondly, blinded with sustained ... doesn't make any sense.
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