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by gmat740 » Sat Jun 06, 2009 7:46 am
33) A historian attempting to predict in the 1870’s which nation would take over world leadership from the British probably would have guessed Bismarck’s Prussia and been quite wrong.
(A) have guessed Bismarck’s Prussia and been
(B) have guessed that it would have been Bismarck’s Prussia and he would be
(C) have guessed Bismarck’s Prussia and would be
(D) guess Bismarck’s Prussia and be
(E) guess that it would be Bismarck’s Prussia and would have been

IMO C

Parallelism : would X and Would Y

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by ankit1383 » Sat Jun 06, 2009 5:27 pm
What's wrong in Option A
Second use of would in optin C is awkward.....
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by Osirus@VeritasPrep » Sat Jun 06, 2009 5:40 pm
I think its E. Any answer that states "and he would be", "and would be" is wrong because it has the wrong tense. Saying he would be wrong is incorrect because it implies that we don't already know the result. Since we know the result you want to use "would have been wrong".
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by Arsene Lupin » Sat Jun 06, 2009 11:05 pm
I'd go with D.

This is a hypothetical statement, which requires the use of the base form of the verbs "guess" and "be".
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by bhumika.k.shah » Sun Feb 21, 2010 8:46 am
I'd vote for D.

B is wordy

So is E

C is incorrect tenses .

lEft with A and D

A is not parallel ...

D is correct. besides attempting to predict ...would guess....fits well !

Hope this helps :)

Can we have the OA and OE please.
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by shashank.ism » Sun Feb 21, 2010 8:54 am
gmat740 wrote:33) A historian attempting to predict in the 1870�s which nation would take over world leadership from the British probably would have guessed Bismarck�s Prussia and been quite wrong.
(A) have guessed Bismarck�s Prussia and been
(B) have guessed that it would have been Bismarck�s Prussia and he would be
(C) have guessed Bismarck�s Prussia and would be
(D) guess Bismarck�s Prussia and be
(E) guess that it would be Bismarck�s Prussia and would have been

IMO C

Parallelism : would X and Would Y

OA after few posts
have guessed is correct (verb aggrement) so D and E out...
B is wordy
C is correct would be seems to be appropriate..
A would be is incorrect..
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by chaya009 » Sun Feb 21, 2010 1:50 pm
The question has been discussed here
https://www.beatthegmat.com/q22-sc-test-4-t4352.html.
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