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To Henry David Thoreau, harmony with nature

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by gmatdriller » Mon Sep 13, 2010 11:11 am
To Henry David Thoreau, harmony with nature was his ideal a century
and a half before it became popular to be an environmentalist
, and he
retained his fascination with and respect for nature as essential elements of his
lifestyle until his death.

A: ...
B: For Henry David Thoreau, a century and a half before it became popular to
be an environmentalist, harmony with nature was his ideal

C: Henry David Thoreau idealized harmony with nature a century and a half
before to be an environmentalist became popular

D: A century and a half before it became popular to be an environmentalist,
Henry David Thoreau idealized harmony with nature

E: A century and a half before it became popular being an environmentalist,
harmony with nature was ideal to Henry David Thoreau
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by diebeatsthegmat » Tue Sep 21, 2010 1:11 pm
gmatdriller wrote:To Henry David Thoreau, harmony with nature was his ideal a century
and a half before it became popular to be an environmentalist
, and he
retained his fascination with and respect for nature as essential elements of his
lifestyle until his death.

A: ...
B: For Henry David Thoreau, a century and a half before it became popular to
be an environmentalist, harmony with nature was his ideal

C: Henry David Thoreau idealized harmony with nature a century and a half
before to be an environmentalist became popular

D: A century and a half before it became popular to be an environmentalist,
Henry David Thoreau idealized harmony with nature

E: A century and a half before it became popular being an environmentalist,
harmony with nature was ideal to Henry David Thoreau
D?
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by Maciek » Wed Sep 22, 2010 12:09 am
IMO D

There are following issues here: parallelism, logic of the sentence and idioms

1) parallelism
The word "and" connects two sentences, which must be parallel.
A: "To Henry David Thoreau..., and he" is not parallel
B: "For Henry David Thoreau..., and he" is not parallel
E: "... to Henry David Thoreau, and he" is not parallel
We should eliminate answer choices A, B & E

2) logic of the sentence
There is wrong order of words in answer C.

3) idiom
correct idioms are
"ideal for sb/sth"
"ideal to do sth"
For example:
"open fields are ideal for children"
"It is not ideal to have a foreign army here"
Source: www.nytimes.com

I choose answer D

Read "Top 10 Tips for the Sentence Correction Section" by Chris Black
https://www.beatthegmat.com/mba/2010/09/ ... on-section

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Hope it helps!
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by ru2008 » Wed Sep 22, 2010 6:04 am
I think D, gut feeling...
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by reply2spg » Wed Sep 22, 2010 6:26 am
I don't think D can be correct because of the modifier issue. I hope that C is correct here.
Sudhanshu
(have lot of things to learn from all of you)
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by deepshi291 » Wed Sep 22, 2010 8:06 pm
OA D.
Let us know
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by uwhusky » Wed Sep 22, 2010 8:15 pm
Must be a Grockit question.

Here's the OG question that inspired this question:

https://www.beatthegmat.com/josephine-ba ... 33389.html
Yep.
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by gmatdriller » Mon Nov 29, 2010 6:51 pm
The consensus (choice D) is correct for the various reasons given.
Glad there was no ambiguity over the credited response.
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