Source: Master The GMAT 2010 [Peterson's]
The government's means of disposal of war surplus following World War II met with vociferous objections by industrialists, prominent advisor, and many others.
A: of disposal of
B: in disposing
C: for the disposition of
D: used in disposing
E: of disposing
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OA: E
disposal is a noun and disposing is a gerund. As per Manhattan GMAT SC 4th Ed 11th-Chapter, action noun form is preferred to gerund if action noun is available. So, A is better than E. It violates OA.
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vijay_venky
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I think the usage of the word dispose is
disposal of
disposing of
Please correct me if I'm wrong
disposal of
disposing of
Please correct me if I'm wrong
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I think you are misunderstanding the usage here, which is within the context of parallel comparison. Also it says to avoid, which is to say that action noun is preferred over complex gerund, but it isn't to say that it is always preferred over complex gerund.
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Received a PM asking me to respond. FYI - the person who made the request said this was an MGMAT problem, but it's not - it's from something called "Master the GMAT 2010" (I've never heard of it - is it a book? a web site?)
First, is the problem transcribed completely correctly? Is there supposed to be an "of" at the end of choice E? Or is the second "of" not part of the underline? (Did you get this problem straight from the source? Or did you find it somewhere else, where someone else had copied it from the source?)
You can't say "The means of disposing war surplus met with objections."
That turns "disposing" into an adjective, modifying "war surplus." So, we're talking about the means of "disposing war surplus" (all one phrase / thing). That's not the original intent of the sentence (and it also just doesn't make any sense). The original discussion is about the disposal of war surplus: taking a certain action (disposal) with regard to a thing (war surplus).
First, is the problem transcribed completely correctly? Is there supposed to be an "of" at the end of choice E? Or is the second "of" not part of the underline? (Did you get this problem straight from the source? Or did you find it somewhere else, where someone else had copied it from the source?)
You can't say "The means of disposing war surplus met with objections."
That turns "disposing" into an adjective, modifying "war surplus." So, we're talking about the means of "disposing war surplus" (all one phrase / thing). That's not the original intent of the sentence (and it also just doesn't make any sense). The original discussion is about the disposal of war surplus: taking a certain action (disposal) with regard to a thing (war surplus).
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Hi Stacey,
This is from a book. I have included screen short in my first post. I have PDF of original version of book in secured mode.
I was confused here is that why ING form is used as the noun form "disposal" is already pre-existing. But I believe that DISPOSING is an adjective which modify to war surplus. But what problem with A. option A is good.
Please give your thought once again. I would be highly appreciated.
This is from a book. I have included screen short in my first post. I have PDF of original version of book in secured mode.
I was confused here is that why ING form is used as the noun form "disposal" is already pre-existing. But I believe that DISPOSING is an adjective which modify to war surplus. But what problem with A. option A is good.
Please give your thought once again. I would be highly appreciated.
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I agree that the construction of A is a bit awkward (with the two "of" prepositions), but it doesn't actually break any grammatical rule.
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thanks akhp77 I too stumbled on this problem today!!
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