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by Target2009 » Sun Jan 09, 2011 8:39 pm
Erika came home from the home improvement store with too few stones for the patio and too much brick for the flower beds.

A. Erika came home from the home improvement store with too few stones for the patio and too much brick for the flower beds
B. Erika came home from the home improvement store with too few stone for the patio and too much brick for the flower beds
C. Erika came home from the home improvement store with too few stones for the patio and too many brick for the flower beds
D. Erika came home from the home improvement store with too little stones for the patio and too many brick for the flower beds
E. Erika came home from the home improvement store with too few stones for the patio and too much bricks for the flower beds
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by prachich1987 » Sun Jan 09, 2011 9:02 pm
"little" cannot be used for countable entity.Hence D is out.
"much" cannot be used for countable entity.Hence A,B,E are out.

IMO : C

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by diebeatsthegmat » Sun Jan 09, 2011 10:03 pm
Target2009 wrote:Erika came home from the home improvement store with too few stones for the patio and too much brick for the flower beds.

A. Erika came home from the home improvement store with too few stones for the patio and too much brick for the flower beds
B. Erika came home from the home improvement store with too few stone for the patio and too much brick for the flower beds
C. Erika came home from the home improvement store with too few stones for the patio and too many brick for the flower beds
D. Erika came home from the home improvement store with too little stones for the patio and too many brick for the flower beds
E. Erika came home from the home improvement store with too few stones for the patio and too much bricks for the flower beds
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by abhimanyu.tanwar » Sun Jan 09, 2011 11:54 pm
IMO C
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by Target2009 » Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:08 am
OA - A
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by BastiG » Mon Jan 10, 2011 10:42 am
Why is much brick correct? Can somebody shed some light on this? :)
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by shovan85 » Mon Jan 10, 2011 10:51 am
BastiG wrote:Why is much brick correct? Can somebody shed some light on this? :)
I dont know how the hell TOO MUCH brick is correct, but Too many Brick is also wrong, as brick is used in singular form. Too many Bricks (Plural) is the correct usage.
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by prachich1987 » Mon Jan 10, 2011 11:28 am
Target2009. what's d explanation given by Grockit?
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by Target2009 » Mon Jan 10, 2011 11:44 am
shovan85 wrote:
BastiG wrote:Why is much brick correct? Can somebody shed some light on this? :)
I dont know how the hell TOO MUCH brick is correct, but Too many Brick is also wrong, as brick is used in singular form. Too many Bricks (Plural) is the correct usage.
Hummm.. I was not expecting this, specially with your cool tag line in signature.
prachich1987 wrote:Target2009. what's d explanation given by Grockit?
Here is what given in the explanation:

When used as mass or noncount nouns, "stone" and "brick" will go with "too little/much"; when used as count nouns, they will go with "too few/many." This sentence is correct as written.

We may request some of our Forum instructor to shed more clarity on this.
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by hariharakarthi » Mon Jan 10, 2011 1:33 pm
too much brick for the flower beds

Erika came home with too much brick for the flower beds. Is this sentence correct then?
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by shovan85 » Tue Jan 11, 2011 12:40 am
Target2009 wrote:
shovan85 wrote:
BastiG wrote:Why is much brick correct? Can somebody shed some light on this? :)
I dont know how the hell TOO MUCH brick is correct, but Too many Brick is also wrong, as brick is used in singular form. Too many Bricks (Plural) is the correct usage.
Hummm.. I was not expecting this, specially with your cool tag line in signature.
Hmm!! :(

What can be done? Some of the Grockit Questions play against our basic concepts and the explanation they provide never seem convincing (so as this one). I will give one more such question:
The management of a workforce distributed geographically carries with it challenges like morale, team cohesion and communication, and accountability between all team members.

A. The management of a workforce distributed geographically carries with it challenges like morale, team cohesion and communication, and accountability between all team members

B. The management of a workforce distributed geographically carries with it challenges such as morale, team cohesion and communication, and also accountability among all team members

C. The management of a workforce distributed geographically carries with it challenges such as morale, team cohesion and communication, and accountability between all team members

D. The management of a workforce distributed geographically carries with it challenges like morale, team cohesion, and communication, and accountability between all team members

E. The management of a workforce distributed geographically carries with it challenges such as morale, team cohesion, and communication, and accountability between all team members
If you get this correct I am happy but give me an proper explanation. I have the OE and OA but still give it a try.
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by Geva@EconomistGMAT » Tue Jan 11, 2011 2:41 am
Target2009 wrote:
shovan85 wrote:
BastiG wrote:Why is much brick correct? Can somebody shed some light on this? :)
I dont know how the hell TOO MUCH brick is correct, but Too many Brick is also wrong, as brick is used in singular form. Too many Bricks (Plural) is the correct usage.
Hummm.. I was not expecting this, specially with your cool tag line in signature.
prachich1987 wrote:Target2009. what's d explanation given by Grockit?
Here is what given in the explanation:

When used as mass or noncount nouns, "stone" and "brick" will go with "too little/much"; when used as count nouns, they will go with "too few/many." This sentence is correct as written.

We may request some of our Forum instructor to shed more clarity on this.
"Brick" can act as a countable singular unit (one brick - many bricks), but was used in old english as a non-count generic name for the "material" of Brick, much like "clay". Think of "a house made of brick", in the same sense as "a house made of stone", or "a house made of wood".
Replace "brick" with "wood" in A, and it makes sense - "too much wood".

It's kosher - I agree that A is the least worst of the answer choices presented - but meh. I don't see the GMAT going into this, as it tests obscure vocab knowledge more than anything else.
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by shovan85 » Tue Jan 11, 2011 3:18 am
Geva@MasterGMAT wrote: "Brick" can act as a countable singular unit (one brick - many bricks), but was used in old english as a non-count generic name for the "material" of Brick, much like "clay". Think of "a house made of brick", in the same sense as "a house made of stone", or "a house made of wood".
Replace "brick" with "wood" in A, and it makes sense - "too much wood".

It's kosher - I agree that A is the least worst of the answer choices presented - but meh. I don't see the GMAT going into this, as it tests obscure vocab knowledge more than anything else.
Thanks Geva!! It really helps. Though we were able to get the answer as A by eliminating others concretely, A is not convincing.
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by prachich1987 » Tue Jan 11, 2011 5:42 am
shovan85 wrote:
Target2009 wrote:
shovan85 wrote:
BastiG wrote:Why is much brick correct? Can somebody shed some light on this? :)
I dont know how the hell TOO MUCH brick is correct, but Too many Brick is also wrong, as brick is used in singular form. Too many Bricks (Plural) is the correct usage.
Hummm.. I was not expecting this, specially with your cool tag line in signature.
Hmm!! :(

What can be done? Some of the Grockit Questions play against our basic concepts and the explanation they provide never seem convincing (so as this one). I will give one more such question:
The management of a workforce distributed geographically carries with it challenges like morale, team cohesion and communication, and accountability between all team members.

A. The management of a workforce distributed geographically carries with it challenges like morale, team cohesion and communication, and accountability between all team members

B. The management of a workforce distributed geographically carries with it challenges such as morale, team cohesion and communication, and also accountability among all team members

C. The management of a workforce distributed geographically carries with it challenges such as morale, team cohesion and communication, and accountability between all team members

D. The management of a workforce distributed geographically carries with it challenges like morale, team cohesion, and communication, and accountability between all team members

E. The management of a workforce distributed geographically carries with it challenges such as morale, team cohesion, and communication, and accountability between all team members
If you get this correct I am happy but give me an proper explanation. I have the OE and OA but still give it a try.
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by Target2009 » Tue Jan 11, 2011 9:42 am
shovan85 wrote: The management of a workforce distributed geographically carries with it challenges like morale, team cohesion and communication, and accountability between all team members.

A. The management of a workforce distributed geographically carries with it challenges like morale, team cohesion and communication, and accountability between all team members

B. The management of a workforce distributed geographically carries with it challenges such as morale, team cohesion and communication, and also accountability among all team members

C. The management of a workforce distributed geographically carries with it challenges such as morale, team cohesion and communication, and accountability between all team members

D. The management of a workforce distributed geographically carries with it challenges like morale, team cohesion, and communication, and accountability between all team members

E. The management of a workforce distributed geographically carries with it challenges such as morale, team cohesion, and communication, and accountability between all team members

If you get this correct I am happy but give me an proper explanation. I have the OE and OA but still give it a try.
IMO - C
Split 1: Such as / Like : We need such as here because "morale, team cohesion and communication, and accountability" given as example here
Split 2 : Among vs Between : We need Between here because "morale, team cohesion and communication, and accountability" has to be between every two members of the team.
Split 3: "team cohesion and communication, and .." vs "team cohesion, and communication, and ....": We need "team cohesion and communication" as one phrase here to maintain the intended meaning of the sentence.

Let me know OA & OE. Also I agree some of the explanation look very off track at first glance but then we can always post those questions here to get multiple opinion, concept, approach and help from our Dear Instructors / mentors / members. :D
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