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by dextar » Mon May 26, 2008 1:10 am
New buildings in earthquake-prone areas must be heavily reinforced or else they may otherwise collapse in a strong quake.


1 or else they may otherwise collapse in a strong quake

2 or they may collapse in a strong quake

3 so as not to collapse in a strong quake

4 not to collapse in a strong quake

5 or else it may collapse in a strong quake


I selected 3 . Y is it wrong?
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by s_raizada » Mon May 26, 2008 1:18 am
'so as' is never right on GMAT. it is unidiomatci
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by raptor84 » Mon May 26, 2008 1:57 am
is the answer 'A'
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by tomato1 » Mon May 26, 2008 3:33 am
Else and otherwise have same meaning...................so answer can't be A.........

IMO its B
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by tomato1 » Mon May 26, 2008 3:34 am
Else and otherwise have same meaning...................so answer can't be A.........

IMO its B
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by zura » Mon May 26, 2008 1:21 pm
(2) isnt ,,they"' ambigous???
Impossible is nothing
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by rattanas » Mon May 26, 2008 11:55 pm
A and B are out as "they" is ambiguous....
"E" is out as there is no singular pronoun for "it"

"so as not" is always followed with negative which makes "c" out...
guess d is the answer
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by HarvardDreamin » Tue May 27, 2008 9:31 pm
dextar wrote:New buildings in earthquake-prone areas must be heavily reinforced or else they may otherwise collapse in a strong quake.


1 or else they may otherwise collapse in a strong quake

2 or they may collapse in a strong quake

3 so as not to collapse in a strong quake

4 not to collapse in a strong quake

5 or else it may collapse in a strong quake


I selected 3 . Y is it wrong?
Whats the correct answer? I went for B.
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by netigen » Tue May 27, 2008 9:48 pm
s_raizada wrote:'so as' is never right on GMAT. it is unidiomatci
whats the source of this statement?
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by wawatan » Tue May 27, 2008 9:58 pm
it can't be a.

or else and otherwise are repetitious.
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