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crak.gmat: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 78; Joined: Sun Jul 06, 2008 9:40 am; Thanked: 3 times

by crak.gmat » Sun Sep 07, 2008 3:03 pm

Help please!!

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Re: Mary Leakey SC

by duke » Sun Sep 07, 2008 4:43 pm

crak.gmat wrote:Help please!!

Tricky but should be aware "in addition to her WORK". D should be the answer.

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by NSNguyen » Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:45 am

D is right one,
modifier modify for her contribution, not for her.
E is fault one, do not express paralellism her .... her ...

Please share your idea and your reasoning

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by schumi_gmat » Tue Nov 04, 2008 8:07 am

Guys,

Check this out. Same question different Answers on GPREP. Can anyone explain.

What is being modified?
Also check the last part of the sentence in the two sentences.

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by pandeyvineet24 » Tue Nov 04, 2008 8:19 am

I think D is the correct choice here. There is a lot going on here

First is the modifier issue, Modifier in the first clause should modify the contributions not Mary Leakey
Another hint is "Her" in the non underline part of the sentence, that is a possesive pronoun here. So the under line portion should not start
with noun.
the next issue is with parallelism. her discovery ... and her painstaking documentation ...

all of these make D as the correct choice.

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by schumi_gmat » Tue Nov 04, 2008 8:23 am

The post that i have attached has a an OA as A?
This is confusing.

Cam we have experts comment on this?

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by logitech » Tue Nov 04, 2008 10:10 am

schumi_gmat wrote:Guys,

Check this out. Same question different Answers on GPREP. Can anyone explain.

What is being modified?
Also check the last part of the sentence in the two sentences.

First of all, they are NOT the same question. ( sorry for the typo)

And E is wrong in your case, because discovering means that discovery is still in progress.

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by schumi_gmat » Tue Nov 04, 2008 10:12 am

Logitech,

thats the point. they are same questions and 2 different OA. Check the post from crack.gmat and them me

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by logitech » Tue Nov 04, 2008 10:12 am

schumi_gmat wrote:Logitech,

thats the point. they are same questions and 2 different OA. Check the post from crack.gmat and them me

my bad..they are NOT the same question

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by schumi_gmat » Tue Nov 04, 2008 10:19 am

Logitech,

Can you explain me the difference? Also your answers for the both the different questions

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by pandeyvineet24 » Tue Nov 04, 2008 10:33 am

I know what you are saying Shumi, but i think your sentence is slightly different from the one posted above and so are the options.

I think the big 3 to check on a sentence correction are Subject Verb, Pronoun and Parallelism.

In the sentence you have posted, it does maintain a parallel structure and none of the answer choices maintain the parallel structure except A

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by schumi_gmat » Tue Nov 04, 2008 10:37 am

Thanks Vineet,

I agree what you are saying. Only confusion I have is the about the modifier. In post 1, the modifier is modifying Leakey's work and in post 2 it is modifying leakey.

Hence I am confused, what is correct.

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by logitech » Tue Nov 04, 2008 11:07 am

schumi_gmat wrote:Logitech,

Can you explain me the difference? Also your answers for the both the different questions

Schumi,

Check it out.

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by schumi_gmat » Tue Nov 04, 2008 11:50 am

Thanks Logitech,

Can you also tell me about the modifier difference?

In post 1, the modifier is modifying Leakey's work and in post 2 it is modifying leakey.

What should a modifier phrase modify? leakey's contribution or leakey

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by Stacey Koprince » Fri Nov 07, 2008 7:53 am

logitech is right - you have two (slightly) different questions here. I've seen these before and people were confused then. Read carefully.

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