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by vaivish » Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:20 pm
575. Pensions are now viewed as a deferred payment of salary, money a worker is compelled to put away to take care of one’s later years.
(A) a worker is compelled to put away to take care of one’s
(B) that a worker is compelled to put away to take care of oneself in
(C) a worker is compelled to put away to take care of oneself in
(D) workers are compelled to put away to take care of them in
(E) workers are compelled to put away to take care of themselves in


Oa is E
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by rs2010 » Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:50 pm
E is correct because workers to themselves is correct.
Rest all are not in correct form.
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by swati.sug » Mon Jul 28, 2008 3:29 pm
IMO B
I think that that is required
money that a worker is compelled to put
Money workers doesnt make sense to me

Waiting for you to post the official answer.I am unsure
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by tzink » Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:59 pm
Is this copied correctly? I don't think there should be a comma in the middle of the sentence. Semicolon, perhaps, dash, sure, or even nothing (depending on the second half). Def not a comma though
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by reachac » Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:55 pm
IMO E
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by vaivish » Wed Jul 30, 2008 12:13 pm
I have copied it correctly. I agree with you that there should be a comma in between. But the Q was like this only. The source si 1000 SC.
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by swati.sug » Wed Jul 30, 2008 8:23 pm
tell the answer plz.....
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by Rashmi1804 » Sat Apr 04, 2009 10:58 am
I too think that a "that " is required to after "money" to make the sentence meaning ful ...

any comments ??????
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by nasa » Sat Apr 04, 2009 11:45 am
Presence of comma uses money as a modifier to salary instead of pension. So it should have been a semi-colon
that becomes necessary to remove the ambiguity of that vs which between money and workers/worker

"worker is compelled to put away to take care of one’s later years"
shall have a correct form as
"worker is compelled to put away to take care of himself/ herself/ oneself in later years"

IMO B
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by ken3233 » Sat Apr 04, 2009 12:53 pm
vaivish wrote:575. Pensions are now viewed as a deferred payment of salary, money a worker is compelled to put away to take care of one’s later years.
(A) a worker is compelled to put away to take care of one’s
(B) that a worker is compelled to put away to take care of oneself in
(C) a worker is compelled to put away to take care of oneself in
(D) workers are compelled to put away to take care of them in
(E) workers are compelled to put away to take care of themselves in


Oa is E
I picked E.

A - uses the possessive pronoun "one's", which does not sound right to me. Experienced contributors to this forum have advised others to be very careful of GMAT answers that use possessive pronouns, too.
B - I am suspicious of the reflexive pronoun "oneself"
C - same reasoning as for B
D - obvious pronoun error in "them"
E - seems like the most concise answer, and the reflexive pronoun "themselves" seems to be endorsed in GMAT SC test materials.
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by ken3233 » Sat Apr 04, 2009 12:54 pm
Rashmi1804 wrote:I too think that a "that " is required to after "money" to make the sentence meaning ful ...

any comments ??????
I am wondering about this issue too. Can an experienced poster or moderator comment on this? Why is "that" not necessary here?
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by Stacey Koprince » Fri May 15, 2009 9:31 am
Received a PM asking me to respond. Here's another reason why I tell my students not to use 1000 SC and why we have banned the source from the MGMAT forum.

Grammatically speaking, you do need the "that," which seems to eliminate everything except for B. (Though in casual language, it would be acceptable to omit the "that.")

BUT B talks about singular "worker" and the previous part of the sentence talks about "pensionS." One worker doesn't have many pensions, so we need to talk about plural workers, which seems to eliminate everything except for D and E.

If I had to pick one, hmm. I'd agonize. But really - I wouldn't pick one. I just wouldn't study it at all.

(I'm wondering whether this question originally did have a "that" in choice E way back when but the "that" got lost in transcription over the years.)
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