TheGraduate wrote:GMATGuruNY wrote:TheGraduate wrote:What is the reason behind elimination of B? Is there any reason besides "in order to" being wordy?
Also, with E, it seems as if the news was sent to only New York and not Charleston by a swift messenger.
Please comment.
Error 1:
news...that was sent by swift messenger
Conveyed meaning:
There were MANY TYPES OF NEWS -- news that appeared in the local newspaper, news that was discussed on the street corner, news that was spread by carrier pigeon -- but the sentence is discussing only one of these many types of news:
news that was sent by swift messenger.
Not the intended meaning.
In the SC above, there was only one type of news:
NEWS OF THESE SHOTS.
Still require a little more clarification.
B says "new of these shots". But why can we not qualify the "news" further with "that was sent by swift messenger". Is it because "that" is supposed to introduce a restrictive modifier/clause and would change the meaning associated with the "news"?
The purpose of a
that-modifier is to distinguish ONE TYPE of X from OTHER TYPES OF X.
SC95 in the OG12:
troughs that remain stationary
Here, the
that-modifier in blue serves to distinguish troughs THAT REMAIN STATIONARY from troughs THAT DON'T REMAIN STATIONARY.
B:
news of these shots that was sent by swift messenger
Here, the
that-modifier in red implies that
news of these shots THAT WAS SENT BY SWIFT MESSENGER must be distinguished from
news of these shots THAT WAS NOT SENT BY SWIFT MESSENGER.
Not the intended meaning.
There were not different types of
news of these shots.
Thus, the usage of the red
that-modifier is inappropriate.
The intention here is to convey HOW news of these shots TOOK FOUR DAYS to reach New York City, as expressed by the OA:
News of these shots took four days by swift messenger to reach New York City.
Here,
by swift messenger logically serves to modify
took, conveying HOW news of these shots TOOK FOUR DAYS to reach New York City.
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