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by vineetbatra » Tue Apr 20, 2010 5:04 pm
Rather than accept the conventional wisdom that the earth was flat, Christopher Columbus was sent by the king and queen of Spain to see if he could reach India by sailing west.

Rather than accept the conventional wisdom that the earth was flat, Christopher Columbus was sent by the king and queen of Spain to see if he could reach India by sailing west.

Rather than accepting the conventional wisdom that the earth was flat, Christopher Columbus was sent by the king and queen of Spain to see if he could reach India by sailing west.

Instead of accepting the conventional wisdom that the earth was flat, Christopher Columbus sailed west to see
whether he could reach India, having been sent by the king and queen of Spain.

Rather than accept the conventional wisdom that the earth was flat, Christopher Columbus sailed west to see whether he could reach India, having been sent by the king and queen of Spain.

Instead of accepting the conventional wisdom that the earth was flat, Christopher Columbus was sent by the king and queen of Spain to sail west to see if he could reach India.


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I have a very specific question for C. The explanation in MGMAT says that instead of is comparing verb Accepting with Sailed.

In my opinion both accepting and Sailed are not verbs because they do not use a to be verb, Sailed is a modifier and Accepting also seem a modifier. I am not saying that choice C is correct but I am just questing the explanation.

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by rockeyb » Tue Apr 20, 2010 8:32 pm
vineetbatra wrote:Rather than accept the conventional wisdom that the earth was flat, Christopher Columbus was sent by the king and queen of Spain to see if he could reach India by sailing west.

Rather than accept the conventional wisdom that the earth was flat, Christopher Columbus was sent by the king and queen of Spain to see if he could reach India by sailing west.

Rather than accepting the conventional wisdom that the earth was flat, Christopher Columbus was sent by the king and queen of Spain to see if he could reach India by sailing west.

Instead of accepting the conventional wisdom that the earth was flat, Christopher Columbus sailed west to see
whether he could reach India, having been sent by the king and queen of Spain.

Rather than accept the conventional wisdom that the earth was flat, Christopher Columbus sailed west to see whether he could reach India, having been sent by the king and queen of Spain.

Instead of accepting the conventional wisdom that the earth was flat, Christopher Columbus was sent by the king and queen of Spain to sail west to see if he could reach India.


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I have a very specific question for C. The explanation in MGMAT says that instead of is comparing verb Accepting with Sailed.

In my opinion both accepting and Sailed are not verbs because they do not use a to be verb, Sailed is a modifier and Accepting also seem a modifier. I am not saying that choice C is correct but I am just questing the explanation.

Any thoughts?
I agree with you partly .

In the context of this sentence "accepting" is not a verb , you are right since it dose not have a BE form with it .

In fact its a participle acting as an ADJECTIVE modifying the noun WISDOM .

On the other hand Sailed is a VERB .

Christopher Columbus[Subject ] sailed[Intransitive Verb] west[is not the object of the verb , nor is a complement to the subject] to see [prepositional phrase].

ex : The geese fly south .

Please correct me if I am wrong.
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by akhpad » Wed Apr 21, 2010 1:50 am
You can have some more explanation from expert.

https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/rat ... t1177.html
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