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by nafiul9090 » Sat May 14, 2011 5:54 pm
at first glance it looks quite straight way but in real its full of maze......crap

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by pemdas » Sat May 14, 2011 6:18 pm
what's horrible in it?
b) sequence of time is broken - is committing + committed
c) corporations-plural, possessive pronoun 'its' singular
d) corporations -many of them, an employee-one employee of those corporations? illogical sense
e) whose employees vs. the employee - which employee, unclear reference to one of the employees? illogical sense

the selection of a) was straight and quick
In many nations, criminal law does not apply to corporations, but in the United Stated today, a corporation commits a crime whenever one of its employees commits a crime, if the employee acted within the scope of his or her authority and if the corporation benefited as a result.

A. a corporation commits a crime whenever one of its employees commits a crime, if the employee acted
B. a corporation is committing a crime whenever one of its employees committed a crime, if those employees were acting
C. corporations commit a crime whenever one of its employees does, on the
condition that the employee acts
D. corporations commit crimes whenever an employee of those corporations commit a crime, if it was while acting
E. the corporation whose employees commit a crime, commits a crime, whenever the employee acted

I think the answer is C, it is the right answer?
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by vineeshp » Sun May 15, 2011 4:38 am
PEMDAS, when you eliminate answers and get to A, it looks ok. But the issue with A is that it switches between tenses.

In GMAT, if you get the perfect answer, you can move on. But in this question, if you read A, you cannot stop. That's why it is considered tough.
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Just telling you what I know and think. I am not the expert. :)

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by David@VeritasPrep » Sun May 15, 2011 6:49 am
vineeshp -

Just curious, would you really stop at answer choice A in sentence correction if you read a sentence that you thought was perfect?

I have always approached sentence correction as a process of elimination where you are looking for, we might say "the least bad" of the choices and any of my students who might try to do sentence correction by choosing one answer have not done well.

Does it work for you to answer without reading all of the choices?
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by pemdas » Sun May 15, 2011 12:22 pm
poe in all cases - i'm not able able to comprehend the perfection and GMAT abreast.
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by David@VeritasPrep » Sun May 15, 2011 6:12 pm
pemdas - I am with you! I can only ever decide between two things, such as two shirts or two restaurants and mostly when my wife gives me some sort of hint...

On sentence correction I am not going to pick one out of 5 and say "this is the one" too scary for me!
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by [email protected] » Tue Jul 23, 2013 11:38 pm
David can you please point out the errors in the remaining options. I am not able to get the answer.

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by David@VeritasPrep » Wed Jul 24, 2013 4:44 am
PEMDAS pointed out there errors above:
b) sequence of time is broken - is committing + committed
c) corporations-plural, possessive pronoun 'its' singular
d) corporations -many of them, an employee-one employee of those corporations? illogical sense
e) whose employees vs. the employee - which employee, unclear reference to one of the employees? illogical sense
Do those make sense? I can elaborate if needed.
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by [email protected] » Fri Jul 26, 2013 9:15 pm
David@VeritasPrep wrote:PEMDAS pointed out there errors above:
b) sequence of time is broken - is committing + committed
c) corporations-plural, possessive pronoun 'its' singular
d) corporations -many of them, an employee-one employee of those corporations? illogical sense
e) whose employees vs. the employee - which employee, unclear reference to one of the employees? illogical sense
Do those make sense? I can elaborate if needed.
Actually I thought that B is correct because of establishing an order that the company's crime follows that of an employee. Can't we use this way to establish an order?

Also, why is E incorrect. Please elaborate because I do not see any grammatical errors.

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