Camille Claudet

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Camille Claudet

by phelps » Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:50 am
196. Camille Claudet worked continuously through the 1880’s and early 1890’s with the sculptor Auguste Rodin; since there are very few signed works of hers, the inescapable conclusion seems to be one of Claudet conceiving and executing part of Rodin’s enormous production of that period.
(A) inescapable conclusion seems to be one of Claudet conceiving and executing part of Rodin’s enormous production of that period
(B) conclusion of Claudet conceiving and executing part of Rodin’s enormous production of that period seems inescapable
(C) conclusion seems inescapable that part of Rodin’s enormous production of that period was conceived and executed by Claudet
(D) conclusion of part of Rodin’s enormous production of that period having been conceived and executed by Claudet seems inescapable
(E) seemingly inescapable conclusion is that Claudet would have conceived and executed part of Rodin’s enormous production of that period

OA - A

IMO - C

Can anyone explain please
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by graghukalyan » Fri Jun 19, 2009 4:48 am
Am not sure between A & B.
In "C" , conclusion seems inescapable doesnt look idiomatic. Similarly with "D". In "E" seemingly inescapable conclusion gives a change of meaning.

IMO - B. Please help.

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by goelmohit2002 » Fri Jun 19, 2009 5:03 am
Can someone please tell what is wrong with "E" ?

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by hemanth28 » Sat Jun 20, 2009 7:46 pm
did any one even understand the meaning of sentence ... the question is a total bouncer to me ...javascript:emoticon(':oops:')
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by Mayur Sand » Sat Jun 20, 2009 10:41 pm
Yups complete bouncer, please explain in normal terms if anyone understands it

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by maihuna » Sun Jun 21, 2009 12:59 am
hemanth28 wrote:did any one even understand the meaning of sentence ... the question is a total bouncer to me ...javascript:emoticon(':oops:')
Some background about Claudel and Rodin, When Claude entered into sculpture and other arts the entry of women was kind of banned, in early 1880's she joined an women group having similar interest and Rodin was the man who trained them. In the process they had long affair, abortions , brekups etc, so when people started looking into their works later on when she died in 1940's some arguments came that she has copied something from Rodin while some claimed Rodin stolen her work, in a way deep controversy and the description is all about the same things...

after giving the background the question stem in underline portion trying to say the same thing that probably she has copied some work from Rodin.

Hope the meaning is clear now.

As for as the options are concerned: seems to be is the idiom, only seems is probably incorrect, that way the option B C D is gone which uses seems without to.
Out of A and E I will say it is close: Because of the simple reason that the correct option A has been made unattractive, but maintains correct idiom seems to be.

See the problem wih E: seemingly inescapable conclusion is that Claudet would have

Two issues: seemomgly inescapable conclusion is that...it can be definetly written in short so kind of verbose:

Tense issue: would have is incorrect we are talking about past, infact from 1880-1940, so simple past is needed here rather than the have construvction....
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by nervesofsteel » Thu Apr 01, 2010 1:06 am
some source says ans to be C

what is the diff btw B and C ?

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by teal » Tue Aug 16, 2011 8:09 pm
Can someone please explain me this question? I don't really understand what they are testing us on? What is the suggested approach and how to eliminate answer choices?

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by maysree » Thu Oct 27, 2011 12:11 am
I think it has something to do with the fact that a conclusion conveys a degree of certainty that would nt give room for past-perfect (have conceived) as opposed to simple-past which conveys the idea with more conviction. They have, after all, reached a conclusion, yes? So it cant be E.
D doesnt make sense.
Among A B and C, I'd go for C..

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by mankey » Sun Oct 30, 2011 9:05 am
Can some expert please respond to this?

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by parul9 » Sun Oct 30, 2011 9:51 am
IMO C!

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by mankey » Sun Oct 30, 2011 7:56 pm
No point in just moving ahead with IMOs since only the right answer will fetch us marks.

If someone could provide OE for OA, that would help all of us.

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by lunarpower » Sun Oct 30, 2011 11:11 pm
i received a private message about this question.

the best choice here is definitely (c). if your supposed OA is (a), then your answer key is incorrect (or you're looking at the wrong part of it).

i wrote one post about this question here:
https://www.beatthegmat.com/active-vs-pa ... 46143.html

since the original poster hasn't asked any specific questions, i can't tell what else to comment on.
(on a sentence correction problem, "explain everything that's going on in this problem" is an unreasonable request; if you want experts to give a meaningful response, you need to ask about something more specific.)
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