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by sanjib » Sun Aug 30, 2009 7:16 pm
The school board ruling mandating that physically handicapped students be placed in regular classroom settings whenever possible also assured all children who have a reading problem of special aid.
(A) be placed in regular classroom settings whenever possible also assured all children who have a reading problem
(B) should be placed in regular classroom settings whenever possible also assures all children that have a reading problem
(C) are placed in regular classroom settings whenever possible also assures those children who are having reading problems
(D) be placed in regular classroom settings whenever possible also assured children with reading problems
(E) should be placed in regular classroom settings whenever possible also has assured all those children with a reading problem

Pls help how the subjunctive rules are applied for the correct answer.Need explanation pls.
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by bharathh » Sun Aug 30, 2009 7:31 pm
D has the correct subjunctive tense.

A is too wordy and uses all children when not required.
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by RumpelThickSkin » Fri Jun 11, 2010 2:21 am
Opening this one up again OA is D

1) subjunctive easy to spot - B,C, E out

2) between A & D. A looks better to me than D. Somehow D seems to change the meaning and suggests that the ruling assured the children with reading problems (i.e. bestowed reading problems on them)

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by hardik.jadeja » Fri Jun 11, 2010 2:45 am
RumpelThickSkin wrote:between A & D. A looks better to me than D.
If you remove non essential parts of the sentence, it would look something like this.

A) The school board assured all children who have a reading problem of special aid.

Option D would look something like this.
D) The school board assured children with reading problems of special aid.

Lets compare the two
"children who have a reading problem" in A is unnecessarily wordy - "children with reading problem" in D is better
RumpelThickSkin wrote:Somehow D seems to change the meaning and suggests that the ruling assured with reading problems
Correct idiom is "assured X of Y". In D, X is "children with reading problem" and Y is "special aid".

If the correct idiom were "assured X with Y", then the sentence would have meant that the school board ruling will cause reading problems to the children.

In option D "with reading problem" is modifying children. Its not part of the idiom "assured of".

Hope that helps...
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by kevincanspain » Fri Jun 11, 2010 11:00 am
hardik.jadeja wrote:
RumpelThickSkin wrote:between A & D. A looks better to me than D.
If you remove non essential parts of the sentence, it would look something like this.

A) The school board assured all children who have a reading problem of special aid.

Option D would look something like this.
D) The school board assured children with reading problems of special aid.

Lets compare the two
"children who have a reading problem" in A is unnecessarily wordy - "children with reading problem" in D is better
RumpelThickSkin wrote:Somehow D seems to change the meaning and suggests that the ruling assured with reading problems

Correct idiom is "assured X of Y". In D, X is "children with reading problem" and Y is "special aid".

If the correct idiom were "assured X with Y", then the sentence would have meant that the school board ruling will cause reading problems to the children.

In option D "with reading problem" is modifying children. Its not part of the idiom "assured of".

Hope that helps...
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by loveusonu » Fri Jun 11, 2010 11:45 am
kevincanspain wrote:
hardik.jadeja wrote:
RumpelThickSkin wrote:between A & D. A looks better to me than D.
If you remove non essential parts of the sentence, it would look something like this.

A) The school board assured all children who have a reading problem of special aid.

Option D would look something like this.
D) The school board assured children with reading problems of special aid.

Lets compare the two
"children who have a reading problem" in A is unnecessarily wordy - "children with reading problem" in D is better
RumpelThickSkin wrote:Somehow D seems to change the meaning and suggests that the ruling assured with reading problems

Correct idiom is "assured X of Y". In D, X is "children with reading problem" and Y is "special aid".

If the correct idiom were "assured X with Y", then the sentence would have meant that the school board ruling will cause reading problems to the children.

In option D "with reading problem" is modifying children. Its not part of the idiom "assured of".

Hope that helps...
Good explanation!
Does that mean OA is wrong?
My question regarding such construction(may sound stupid) ..Wats the main verb over here, I am confused with also over here?
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by hardik.jadeja » Fri Jun 11, 2010 12:07 pm
loveusonu wrote: Does that mean OA is wrong?
What part of explanation made you think OA D is wrong?
loveusonu wrote:My question regarding such construction(may sound stupid) ..Wats the main verb over here, I am confused with also over here?
hardik.jadeja wrote: If you remove non essential parts of the sentence, it would look something like this.

A) The school board ruling assured all children who have a reading problem of special aid.

Option D would look something like this.
D) The school board ruling assured children with reading problems of special aid.
I think If you reduce the sentence by removing non essential parts, as i did in my previous post, you would find it easy to identify the main verb of the sentence. Can you identify the main verb in the above highlighted sentences?
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by haveto » Fri Jun 11, 2010 1:24 pm
Hardik - Thanks man!

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by ansh.kumar » Mon Jun 14, 2010 10:39 am
so IS ^A^ ruled out only for wordiness?
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by loveusonu » Mon Jun 14, 2010 12:15 pm
hardik.jadeja wrote:
loveusonu wrote: Does that mean OA is wrong?
What part of explanation made you think OA D is wrong?
loveusonu wrote:My question regarding such construction(may sound stupid) ..Wats the main verb over here, I am confused with also over here?
hardik.jadeja wrote: If you remove non essential parts of the sentence, it would look something like this.

A) The school board ruling assured all children who have a reading problem of special aid.

Option D would look something like this.
D) The school board ruling assured children with reading problems of special aid.
I think If you reduce the sentence by removing non essential parts, as i did in my previous post, you would find it easy to identify the main verb of the sentence. Can you identify the main verb in the above highlighted sentences?
oh, I mistakenly thought from your explanation that B has 'of'..
Thanks for rest of the explanation
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