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by goelmohit2002 » Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:25 am
Hi All,

Can somebody please help me in the below question. I am stuck between [spoiler]"D" and "E"[/spoiler]. OA [spoiler]is "E"[/spoiler]

The expected rise in the price of oil could be a serious impact to industrialized nations and severely diminish the possibility to have an economy free of inflation.

(A) be a serious impact to industrialized nations and severely diminish the possibility to have
(B) seriously impact on industrialized nations and severely impede the possibility to have
(C) seriously impact on industrialized nations and severely impede the possibility of having
(D) have a serious impact on industrialized nations and severely impede the possibility to have
(E) have a serious impact on industrialized nations and severely diminish the possibility of having

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by uymba » Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:20 am
OA is E ?
What is the source?

At first sight i would choose B o C because it seems more "parallel seriuosly impact and severely impede". However, i'm not sure whether impede changes the meaning. In this context perhaps yes.

So, getting with E or D, i would choose E because it uses diminish as the original sentence.

Can anybody else make an opinion?

What about the parallelism of the adverbs in B & C? Does impede changes the meaning?

(impede = make more difficult)
(diminish = reduce). I believe that you reduce a possibility and you don't make it more difficult. More opinions?

Finally, IMO E.

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by goelmohit2002 » Sun Mar 22, 2009 11:36 pm
Experts Kindly share your opinion.
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by Jatinder » Mon Mar 23, 2009 12:00 am
This may help:

https://www.beatthegmat.com/rise-in-the- ... 25653.html
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by goelmohit2002 » Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:26 pm
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by greatsaint » Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:03 pm
Its "E" in my opinion. Let me know whats the correct answer
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by goelmohit2002 » Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:37 pm
As mentioned in the original post...OA is "E"....
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by lunarpower » Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:28 am
all of (a), (b), (c), (d) contain unidiomatic constructions.

in (a), "possibility to have" is unidiomatic. moreover, "...be a serious impact" doesn't make any sense; unless you're talking about a literal, physical impact, you should say "have an impact".

(b) "possibility to have" is unidiomatic.
also, you can't use "on" with the VERB "impact"; "on" only goes with the NOUN "impact". as a verb, "impact" takes a direct object (i.e., no prepositions).

(c) you can't use "on" with the VERB "impact"; "on" only goes with the NOUN "impact". as a verb, "impact" takes a direct object (i.e., no prepositions).

(d) "possibility to have" is unidiomatic.

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also, you can't impede a possibility; you can only impede actions or processes.

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this is still a badly written question, though. the gmat here would almost certainly just write "...possibility of an economy...".
in fact, the word have/having is actually WRONG here, since the sentence doesn't mention who "has" the economy.

mohit, where are you getting all these sloppily written questions?
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