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by yellowho » Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:10 pm
The 151 member governments of the World Bank are expected to increase the bank's funding by $175 billion, though some United States legislators cite an obstacle to congressional passage being the concern that the bank's loans will help foreign producers compete with American businesses.


A. an obstacle to congressional passage being the concern
B. a concern as an obstacle to congressional passage
C. as an obstacle to congressional passage the concern
D. the concern, an obstacle to congressional passage,
E. as an obstacle for Congress to pass it the concern


Between C and D.

I understand that D is wrong because it changes the meaning, turning an essential modifier to a non-essential modifier. However, why can't "an obstacle to..." be an appositives and/or absolute phrase that gives more info. about the concern?
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by gmat_perfect » Fri Mar 18, 2011 12:50 am
yellowho wrote:The 151 member governments of the World Bank are expected to increase the bank's funding by $175 billion, though some United States legislators cite an obstacle to congressional passage being the concern that the bank's loans will help foreign producers compete with American businesses.


A. an obstacle to congressional passage being the concern
B. a concern as an obstacle to congressional passage
C. as an obstacle to congressional passage the concern
D. the concern, an obstacle to congressional passage,
E. as an obstacle for Congress to pass it the concern


Between C and D.

I understand that D is wrong because it changes the meaning, turning an essential modifier to a non-essential modifier. However, why can't "an obstacle to..." be an appositives and/or absolute phrase that gives more info. about the concern?
First:

Know the real meaning of "APPOSITIVES".

Appositives are words that are placed near the main word, and they are synonymous to the main word.

Example:

MS Dhoni, the Indian cricket captain, has made fifty runs.

-> Here, MS Dhoni and Indian cricket captain are synonymous.

Amartya Sen, the Indian economist, has won novel prize in economics.

-> The Indian economist and Amartya Sen are synonymous.

Look at the sentence you cited.

Concern and 'obstacle" are not synonymous. So, you cannot think here the appositive.

What is the problem?

We usually use "cite X as Y"

Sometimes we use "Cite as Y X" if and only if X is modified by many words.

Example:

The committee cited the boy who won the national first prize and the south Asian games second prize as the champion of the match.

In this sentence we may lose concentration what has been cited.

We can revise the sentence as follows:

The committee cited as the champion of the match the boy who won the national first prize and the south Asian games second prize.

Apply the same rule in this sentence, and you will see that only C is the correct option.

Besides, concern that................

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by GMATMadeEasy » Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:38 am
why D is wrong ?

The sentence below is correct.

Nicolas Sarkozy ,the president of france, cites the concern that absence of the support from Arab world might delay the victory of allied forces.
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by gmat_perfect » Fri Mar 18, 2011 4:46 am
GMATMadeEasy wrote:why D is wrong ?

The sentence below is correct.

Nicolas Sarkozy ,the president of france, cites the concern that absence of the support from Arab world might delay the victory of allied forces.
Please read the post above your post. D has the wrong appositive issue.

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by aspirant2011 » Fri Mar 18, 2011 8:15 am
Hi Gmat_perfect,

Why is B wrong and can you please explain the appositives taking C and D sentence into consideration because i am not able to get ur explanation what you wrote :-(
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by gmat_perfect » Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:46 am
aspirant2011 wrote:Hi Gmat_perfect,

Why is B wrong and can you please explain the appositives taking C and D sentence into consideration because i am not able to get ur explanation what you wrote :-(
@Aspirant,

Appositive concept has been tested neither in C nor in D, so I am not going to discuss. If you have doubt about appositive, I will discuss about it. Just let me know.

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by GMATMadeEasy » Fri Mar 18, 2011 11:28 am
@GMAT_perfect
Appositives are words that are placed near the main word, and they are synonymous to the main word.
Your definition of appositive is correct but not complete. Appositive can be an adjective too .

Pamela Anderson ,a playboy model, goes to church every sunday morning.

Chaotic, absurd, and entirely banal, Pamela Anderson's life is correctly recorded in biography of Hugh Hefner.

Chaotic, absurd, and entirely banal, = Adjective qualifying subject in role of appositive.

In addition , the concern = an obstacle to congressional passage is very much possible.

The Hillary clinton's concern, an obstacle to HealthCare reforms, that new reforms will lead to budget deficit is baseless.

what is the OA ?
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by sameerballani » Sat Mar 19, 2011 5:31 am
This is my first post. I will try to answer this.

I feel the answer is option-C

Eliminating each option:

The sentence continues with "that the bank's loans will help foreign...... "
so i strongly feel the word just before that should be concern. So this eliminate the option-B

the usage of 'it' in the option E sounds awkward as Congress can only effect the decision of US but actually the funding is expected to be done by 151 member govts. So eliminate E

I strongly feel the answer is between C or D.
Considering the next post.

We usually use "cite X as Y"

Sometimes we use "Cite as Y X" if and only if X is modified by many words.


I feel the answer should be option-C where it uses the form : Cite as Y X
"as an obstacle to congressional passage the concern"

Here the the concern that the bank's loans will help foreign...... is being considered as an obstacle to congressional passage.

In option D the information within comma's is Non-Essential whereas actually it is Essential. SO eliminate option D
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by pesfunk » Sun Mar 20, 2011 12:17 am
OA is indeed C

https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/the ... t2980.html
yellowho wrote:The 151 member governments of the World Bank are expected to increase the bank's funding by $175 billion, though some United States legislators cite an obstacle to congressional passage being the concern that the bank's loans will help foreign producers compete with American businesses.


A. an obstacle to congressional passage being the concern
B. a concern as an obstacle to congressional passage
C. as an obstacle to congressional passage the concern
D. the concern, an obstacle to congressional passage,
E. as an obstacle for Congress to pass it the concern


Between C and D.

I understand that D is wrong because it changes the meaning, turning an essential modifier to a non-essential modifier. However, why can't "an obstacle to..." be an appositives and/or absolute phrase that gives more info. about the concern?
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by gmat_perfect » Sun Mar 20, 2011 1:06 am
GMATMadeEasy wrote:@GMAT_perfect
Appositives are words that are placed near the main word, and they are synonymous to the main word.
Your definition of appositive is correct but not complete. Appositive can be an adjective too .

Pamela Anderson ,a playboy model, goes to church every sunday morning.

Chaotic, absurd, and entirely banal, Pamela Anderson's life is correctly recorded in biography of Hugh Hefner.

Chaotic, absurd, and entirely banal, = Adjective qualifying subject in role of appositive.

In addition , the concern = an obstacle to congressional passage is very much possible.

The Hillary clinton's concern, an obstacle to HealthCare reforms, that new reforms will lead to budget deficit is baseless.

what is the OA ?
It depends on the context. In our present sentence this is not applied.
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by yellowho » Sun Mar 20, 2011 1:19 am
Actually it is an appositive per the discussion from Manhattan forum. however, you are still correct. the issue here and also my mistake is appositive = non-essential.
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