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by djegan » Fri Nov 19, 2010 7:55 am
1) Psycholinguists know that a child produces speech by imitating adults, but they do not know how he learns to distinguish significantly different phonemes or how he comes to ignore meaningless variations among speech sounds.

A) by imitating adults, but they do not know how he learns to distinguish significantly different phonemes or
B) by imitating adults, but they do not know how either how he learns to distinguish significantly different phonemes nor
C) Through the imitation of adults,but they neither know he learns to distinguish significantly different phenemes nor.
D) Through the imitation of adults,but they do not know either how he learns to distinguish significantly different phenemes nor
E) by imitating adults, but they do not know how he learns to distinguish significantly different phonemes nor

OA : A

2) Brief psychotherapy requires far fewer hours and costs far less money than traditional psychoanalysis and so will hopefully prove to be an effective treatment for many of the large amount of people currently seeking therapy
A) will hopefully prove to be an effective treatment for many of the large amount
B) will prove hopefully to be an effective treatment for many of the large amount
c) hopefully prove to be an effective treatment for many of the large number
D) Will, it is hoped, prove to be an effective treatment for many of the large number
E) Will, it is hoped, prove to be an effective treatment for many of the large amount

OA : D

Kindly provide the explanation for the above questions?

Thanks in Advance.
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by shovan85 » Fri Nov 19, 2010 7:58 am
Please provide complete questions so that it will help others as well. Please post rest of the options by editing the post
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by Isaac@EconomistGMAT » Fri Nov 19, 2010 1:44 pm
For the first question:
B: Nor needs to be paired with neither, not either
C: wordy (through the imitation of adults) compared with the original; changes original meaning by saying they don't know whether he learns to distinguish... as opposed to they do not know how he learns to distinguish... (big difference).
D: wordy (as in C); either should be paired with or OR neither should be paired with nor.
E: again: Neither...nor (missing the neither)
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by Isaac@EconomistGMAT » Fri Nov 19, 2010 1:50 pm
Forgot the 2nd question!

You can eliminate a,b,and e because you cannot say 'a large amount of people' as the word people is a plural countable noun and should be preceded by number (a large number of people).

C can be eliminated because the verb 'prove' is plural and needs to be in singular if it is to agree with psychotherapy which is singular. Even if it were 'proves' it would still be wrong as the original sentence predicts what psychotherapy 'will' do in the future, so the correct answer choice should still utilize the 'will'.

Are you sure you copied the answer choices/question correctly?
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by djegan » Fri Nov 19, 2010 10:01 pm
Yes I cross checked, both Q&A's are same

Questions are taken from GMAT premier 2010-11 Edition (SC Practice Quiz)

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by tintinusa » Sat Nov 20, 2010 12:13 pm
I think you have to underline 1st question from "by imitating adults". good post. Thanks
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