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by vaivish » Mon Feb 23, 2009 8:41 am
46. One of Krishna Menon's many dreams for his dear homeland was to convert one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and remove all traces of man ever setting foot there.
A. many dreams for his dear homeland was to convert one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and remove
B. many dreams for his dear homeland was to convert one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and removing
C. many dreams for his dear homeland was converting one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and removing
D. many dreams for his dearly homeland was to convert one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and remove
E. many dreams for his dearly homeland was to convert one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and remove


OA is c.

Why does dearly change the meaning of hte statement?
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by bmlaud » Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:08 am
A. many dreams for his dear homeland was to convert one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and to remove
B. many dreams for his dear homeland was to convert one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and removing ( not parallel, to convert and removing)
C. many dreams for his dear homeland was converting one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and removing Correct
D. many dreams for his dearly homeland was to convert one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and remove (use of dearly is wrong and not parallel)
E. many dreams for his dearly homeland was to convert one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and remove (use of dearly is wrong and not parallel)
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by venusgarg » Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:17 am
IMO A
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by awesomeusername » Mon Feb 23, 2009 10:23 am
vaivish wrote:46. One of Krishna Menon's many dreams for his dear homeland was to convert one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and remove all traces of man ever setting foot there.
A. many dreams for his dear homeland was to convert one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and remove
B. many dreams for his dear homeland was to convert one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and removing
C. many dreams for his dear homeland was converting one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and removing
D. many dreams for his dearly homeland was to convert one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and remove
E. many dreams for his dearly homeland was to convert one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary and remove


OA is c.


Why does dearly change the meaning of hte statement?
"dearly" is an adverb. Therefore, I believe it cannot be used here. Since we're modifying his homeland, it is more appropriate to use the adjective "dear".
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by lijupillai » Mon Feb 23, 2009 11:44 am
Is it always required to repeat "to" achieve parallelism?
I have read in MGMAT SC that you don't need to repeat "to".

if thats the case why is A wrong. If not what is condition where "to" needs to be repeated?

Can some one please explain.
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by awesomeusername » Mon Feb 23, 2009 3:29 pm
I read in another post that the gerund form (converting and removing) needs to be used here because "setting" is used in the sentence. But he didn't seem too confident in his explanation.

https://www.urch.com/forums/gmat-sentenc ... itive.html
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by dreamzz2010 » Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:46 pm
I knw this one is very basic question but plz do help me!!

how to differentiate b/w adverb and adjective?
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by kaulnikhil » Fri Feb 26, 2010 11:55 am
dreamzz2010 wrote:I knw this one is very basic question but plz do help me!!

how to differentiate b/w adverb and adjective?
Adjectives modify NOUN and PRONOUN
Adverb modify adjectives, verb, etc
For most words when you add an -ly the word becomes an adverb
smart ---adjective
smartly--adverb
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by girish3131 » Sun Feb 28, 2010 2:22 am
IMO A

but wud luv 2 knw y C is wrong... or vice versa :)

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by rockeyb » Sun Feb 28, 2010 4:07 am
The sentence checks for parallelism .

There are two things that Krishna Menon wants to do :

1. convert one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary
2. remove all traces of man ever setting foot there.

These two things need to set up in parallel

Ex :
to convert one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary AND to remove all traces of man ever setting foot there.

OR

converting one of Minicoy's islands into a pre-historic nature sanctuary AND removing all traces of man ever setting foot there.


Since A fails to maintain parallelism A is incorrect , C is correct answer.
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by girish3131 » Sun Feb 28, 2010 4:18 am
very naive reply... :)
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by rockeyb » Sun Feb 28, 2010 4:28 am
Well simple things are easy to understand ...... ;)
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by girish3131 » Mon Mar 01, 2010 11:57 pm
No Dear... C is wrong ans.

Ans is A beyound doubt. am jus curious to know reasoning behind why C is wrong.....

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by rockeyb » Tue Mar 02, 2010 12:10 am
Why do u think C is wrong and A correct?

Whats the OA please ? Also would love to know the reason why C is wrong ?
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by girish3131 » Tue Mar 02, 2010 12:42 am
b'coz in case of A , TO is there in default before REMOVE. Hence that is not an error.


whenever there is a tie b/w infinitive (TO verb Form) and ING forms (perhaps called present participle :) ) then Infinitive is given preference.


So A carry more waightage over C .

But still wud like to hear opinion 4m u Guys...

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