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by rahulg83 » Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:22 pm
Growing competitive pressures may be encouraging auditors to bend the rules in favor of clients; auditors, may, for instance, allow a questionable loan to remain on the books in order to maintain a bank's profits on paper.

(A)..
(B) clients, as an instance, to allow
(C) clients, like to allow
(D) clients, such as to be allowing
(E) clients; which might, as an instance, be the allowing of

Basically i want to know when a semicolon introduces a sentence framgmentation and how to distinguish between normal modifier and run-on sentence (which is not related to this question).
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by umaa » Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:04 pm
IMO A. The auditors bend rules and allow questionable loans. So, we should use Auditors.

B - It says Client allows questionable loans
C - LIKE is not equal to MAY; C out.
D - Such as - Awkward
E - Whole sentence itself is awkward

how to distinguish between normal modifier and run-on sentence (which is not related to this question)? Even I want to know the answer for this question.
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by mrsmarthi » Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:44 pm
Growing competitive pressures may be encouraging auditors to bend the rules in favor of clients; auditors, may, for instance, allow a questionable loan to remain on the books in order to maintain a bank's profits on paper.

(A).. ; is making the first part main clause. But the rest of the part not an independent cluase.
(B) clients, as an instance, to allow
(C) clients, like to allow Like is used to compare nouns.
D) clients, such as to be allowing TO BE ALLOWING?
(E) clients; which might, as an instance, be the allowing of Awkward sentence
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by tanviet » Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:50 pm
I like to discuss question in OG because they are official. do not discuss question from bad sourse. this destroy our study. properly understand questions in OG is good enough. remember, questions in OG is not easy. we should objective to practic OG to properly understand Q in OG
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by sjd00d » Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:05 pm
It has to be A. "As an instance" is wrong, should be "for instance"
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by mrsmarthi » Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:12 pm
Agreed, it has to be A.

I will have to correct my self.

1. FOR INSTANCE is a correct idiom.
2. In the sentence, Growing competitive......in favor of clients; is one independent clause. IN addtion, clause following ; auditors, may, for instance, allow.....is strongly related to first cluase by quoting an example.
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by x2suresh » Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:58 pm
mrsmarthi wrote:Agreed, it has to be A.

I will have to correct my self.

1. FOR INSTANCE is a correct idiom.
2. In the sentence, Growing competitive......in favor of clients; is one independent clause. IN addtion, clause following ; auditors, may, for instance, allow.....is strongly related to first cluase by quoting an example.
B,C changes the meaning..

clients to allow.. but actually from original setence.. Auditors to allow questionable amount.

D -- AWKWARD
E -- Awkward..also after semicolon.. it should be caluse with subject and verb.. Here verb is missing.


A is the best.
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by casfguy » Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:26 am
(A)..
(B) clients, as an instance, to allow
(C) clients, like to allow
(D) clients, such as to be allowing
(E) clients; which might, as an instance, be the allowing of
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by rahulg83 » Tue Feb 10, 2009 3:39 am
Thanks ppl
The answer indeed is A, but could anyone explain what does sentence fragmentation mean?
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by umaa » Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:23 am
A sentence with missing subject or verb or both is called sentence fragment.
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by iamcste » Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:34 am
duongthang wrote:I like to discuss question in OG because they are official. do not discuss question from bad sourse. this destroy our study. properly understand questions in OG is good enough. remember, questions in OG is not easy. we should objective to practic OG to properly understand Q in OG
Dude, this is OG question
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The two sentences sperated by semicolon are independent

by rishi4you » Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:36 am
Growing competitive pressures may be encouraging auditors to bend the rules in favor of clients; auditors, may, for instance, allow a questionable loan to remain on the books in order to maintain a bank's profits on paper.


Sentence fragment typically occurs when using a semi-colon, the two clauses seperated by the semi-colon does not remains independent . There has to be 2 independent clauses which means there should be a subject and a verb . If either of this is missing it qualifies to be classified as a "sentence fragment" .
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Re: The two sentences sperated by semicolon are independent

by iamcste » Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:48 am
rishi4you wrote:Sentence fragment typically occurs when using a semi-colon, the two clauses seperated by the semi-colon does not remains independent . There has to be 2 independent clauses which means there should be a subject and a verb . If either of this is missing it qualifies to be classified as a "sentence fragment" .

I got subject verb error... :lol:
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by bmlaud » Tue Feb 10, 2009 10:58 am
Whenever two main clauses appear they must be separated from each other in one of the four ways.
1. Using a period
2. With a semi colon
3. With a comma preceding a coordinating conjunction ( and, but..)
4. Ocassionally with a colon when second clause explains the first.

If the two clauses are joined using a comma, it results in error called comma splice and if the clauses are joined using no punctuation or coordinating conjunction, it results in a run-on sentence.

In this question, the two main clauses are joined using a semi colon, Option A is correct.
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