pls,help, my freind, this SC

duongthang · Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:27 pm Post subject: pls,help, my freind, this SC

Schliemann determined at the age of seven to find the site of ancient Troy and /devoted his subsequent career to do it/

a,
b,has devoted his subsequent career to do that
c,devoted his subsequent career to such an end
d, has devoted his subsequent career for that
e,devoted his subsequent career to that end

why C is wrong, pls, explain

anjaligeorge1 · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:12 am Post subject:

is the answer A ?

P_mashru · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:26 am Post subject:

Answer is D

OA?

g_beatthegmat · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 4:37 am Post subject:

IMO it should be (E). to that end is correct.

duongthang · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 6:01 am Post subject:

pls, explain, why C is wrong.

varunrajwade · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 7:17 am Post subject:

I think C is wrong cause of 2 things... One is this sentence should be in present perfect... The time-frame of the sentence is unknown (i.e. when it happened exactly) and so present perfect should be used instead of simple past.... Hence a,c,e are eliminated... Also in C "such an end" is a very rough construction.

Between option B and D, B has rough word-word usage.. One is devoted for something.. Or towards something.. not devoted to do...

So methinks answer is D

g_beatthegmat · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:44 am Post subject:

Experts please pitch in.

senthil · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 9:41 pm Post subject:

I am confused .. I go for A.. but experts explain

loki.gmat · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:25 pm Post subject:

Schliemann decided, at the age of seven, to do something i.e, to find the site of ancient Troy.

B - to do that - clearly refers to the act of finding the site of ancient Troy.

D - for that - not as effective as "to do that".

hence IMO B.

Thanks!

shipra · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 2:37 am Post subject:

IMO E
it goes arallel wid determined and "To that end" sounds good...
it can be 'has devoted' (if at all) if v know that he is still continuing...this is how i think...

duongthang · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 7:29 pm Post subject:

OA is E. past tense is nessessary to maintain paralelism with "determined". But why C is wrong?

reachac · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 7:50 pm Post subject:

@duongthang
'Such' can be used to give examples but to point to one particular thing, "that" is preffered. Here the questions talk about one particular idea "finding the city of troy" so "that".

IMO E. Other options either use 'such' or use the present perfect 'has + participal'(which is not required here as there is is no evidence to support that the search is still on)

This is what I think, guys please post if u disagree with the explanation or wana add something

Thanks

shipra · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:46 pm Post subject:

completely agree with reachac...'that' is used for something particular, as it is in this case...whereas such is used for giving examples...

duongthang · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 7:03 pm Post subject:

I am not clear of difference between "such" and "that" as you said. Pls, give example which show difference.

I think: "such N1" is used when N1-noun is truely present at previous place in the sentence. "that N1, "the N1", "this N1" can be used without the presence of N1.

But I am not sure of my thingking

I do not have explanation for this questions. This is one of the 70 brutal SC I download from internet.

Anyone know the reason why E is correct, pls, explaine. We help one another.