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by davidfrank » Mon May 28, 2012 3:11 am
Hi,

As per grail the correct answer is D and I think option B can also be correct. Can someone explain to me the difference in the meaning when I substitute "and" with "or". I feel the sentence says that there are many courses and still if one doesn't like any of them, he or she can choose the background course.


Menlo University's range of graduate programmes have been developed to fulfil your needs whether you intend to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, and whatever your background.
A. have been developed to fulfil your needs whether you intend to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, and whatever
B. has been developed to fulfil your needs if you intend to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, or whatever
C. have been developed to fulfil your needs whether you intend to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, and whatever
D. has been developed to fulfil your needs whether you intend to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, and whatever
E. has been developed to fulfil your needs whether one intends to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, or whatever
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by vk_vinayak » Mon May 28, 2012 3:28 am
While posting the question, please use spoiler to indicate the OA.
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by Ashujain » Mon May 28, 2012 5:28 am
davidfrank wrote:Hi,

As per grail the correct answer is D and I think option B can also be correct. Can someone explain to me the difference in the meaning when I substitute "and" with "or". I feel the sentence says that there are many courses and still if one doesn't like any of them, he or she can choose the background course.


Menlo University's range of graduate programmes have been developed to fulfil your needs whether you intend to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, and whatever your background.
A. have been developed to fulfil your needs whether you intend to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, and whatever
B. has been developed to fulfil your needs if you intend to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, or whatever
C. have been developed to fulfil your needs whether you intend to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, and whatever
D. has been developed to fulfil your needs whether you intend to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, and whatever
E. has been developed to fulfil your needs whether one intends to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, or whatever
I am not sure about the substitution of "and" with "or" but there is 1 more error in B. "if" is incorrect, it should be "whether" because "if" is used in conditional statements.
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by patanjali.purpose » Mon May 28, 2012 1:12 pm
davidfrank wrote:Hi,

As per grail the correct answer is D and I think option B can also be correct. Can someone explain to me the difference in the meaning when I substitute "and" with "or". I feel the sentence says that there are many courses and still if one doesn't like any of them, he or she can choose the background course.


Menlo University's range of graduate programmes have been developed to fulfil your needs whether you intend to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, and whatever your background.

B. has been developed to fulfil your needs if you intend to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, or whatever
D. has been developed to fulfil your needs whether you intend to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, and whatever
The original sentence intends to say RANGE OF PROGRAMMES has been developed to fulfil your needs X AND Y

IMO B trying to trick us by using OR before whatever - by using OR sentence intends to convey that RANGE OF PROGRAMMES has been developed for not X AND Y, but X OR Y (complete change in meaning).

usage of IF also incorrect (as Ashujain mentioned); IMO D
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by jimmyjimmy » Mon May 28, 2012 6:06 pm
'and' 'or'

jim u bring fanta, coke, sprite, or thumsup, and whatever u like.(seems fine)(which means jim ccan also bring something else from other category like puff or any eatery item, or from the soft drinks section if he likes)( he is already getting one mentioned with names and something else of his own personal choice)

jim u bring fanta, coke, sprite, or thumsup or whatever u like ( here jim can bring either fanta or coke or sprite or thumsup or somthing that he likes ( could be maaza or slice or redbull, but only one drink)

D-has been developed to fulfil your needs whether you intend to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, and whatever

here the mentioned options are counted and by putting and (if we have something else to pursue than even that is counted)
(but by putting or we can only pursue either one of the mentioned career or the one of our choice)
hence using and does not distorts the meaning of the original sentence..


hope it helps..
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by davidfrank » Mon May 28, 2012 9:55 pm
Hi JimmyJimmy,

Thanks for the post but my question is still unanswered. My question here is both possibilities exist, that a student can take any of the course and his background course as well or the student can take either the available courses "or" from the his or her background.

My question here is, I made the mistake of over looking if present in the sentence. Since per the sentence I think the possibility of both "and" and "or" exist, how does one know which one to go for, if someone has missed "if" in the sentence.
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by jimmyjimmy » Wed May 30, 2012 7:01 am
davidfrank wrote:Hi JimmyJimmy,

Thanks for the post but my question is still unanswered. My question here is both possibilities exist, that a student can take any of the course and his background course as well or the student can take either the available courses "or" from the his or her background.

My question here is, I made the mistake of over looking if present in the sentence. Since per the sentence I think the possibility of both "and" and "or" exist, how does one know which one to go for, if someone has missed "if" in the sentence.
chk out dh above post of patanjali purpose ..thats the best possible xplanation..
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