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by thephoenix » Sun Jul 04, 2010 12:08 am
this question has been discussed for a number of time, however in none of them any expert has commented anything
if someone has the link where expert like ron,stacey,testluv has commented then pls pm me.
i am confused how which is not reffering to nearest noun it is attched to.
is there any exception to this rule.
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by thephoenix » Sun Jul 04, 2010 12:13 am
how i approached the above question
I eliminated d and E based on violation of which rule.
and then B and C for not being llel( begin and end)
left with A , however i was not satisfied with the use of outnumbering i opted for A , being sure of my elimination
But was surprised by OA
what to do in such situation
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by Emeraldweapon » Sun Jul 04, 2010 12:14 am
thephoenix wrote:this question has been discussed for a number of time, however in none of them any expert has commented anything
if someone has the link where expert like ron,stacey,testluv has commented then pls pm me.
i am confused how which is not reffering to nearest noun it is attched to.
is there any exception to this rule.
The nearest noun that "which" is attached to is "a person". Which cannot refer to a person. That's why which refers to the letters.
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by hardik.jadeja » Sun Jul 04, 2010 12:15 am
thephoenix wrote:this question has been discussed for a number of time, however in none of them any expert has commented anything
if someone has the link where expert like ron,stacey,testluv has commented then pls pm me.
i am confused how which is not reffering to nearest noun it is attched to.
is there any exception to this rule.
Here you go..

Ron has answered the same question here..

https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/emi ... t6529.html
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by gmatmachoman » Sun Jul 04, 2010 2:13 am
thephoenix wrote:how i approached the above question
I eliminated d and E based on violation of which rule.
and then B and C for not being llel( begin and end)
left with A , however i was not satisfied with the use of outnumbering i opted for A , being sure of my elimination
But was surprised by OA
what to do in such situation
pheonix bhai,

I would do like this:

"outnumber should be used instead of " outnumbering:

So we are left with B & E.

As u rightly said ...quote : "then B and C for not being llel( begin and end)"...

So we are left with E.

Since "which" does not create ambiguity i its meaning we can click E..
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by Stacey Koprince » Tue Jul 06, 2010 12:20 pm
Received a PM asking me to respond. I'm sorry I'm just getting to your message now; I've been on vacation since 23 June.

FYI - you may not have gotten a response from an expert yet because you posted an image of the problem rather than typing out the text of the problem. This violates a forum rule - images are to be used only when the problem contains a diagram or picture that cannot be recreated via a text post.

This is a rule because, when we hit reply, we can only see the text of the problem if the problem has been typed into the post. (Try it - there's no problem to look at if the problem was posted as an image.) We have a very limited amount of time to answer questions, so we need you to help us make it as efficient as possible to answer as many questions as possible in the time that we have.

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