fell for "B"
fightwithGmat's explanation is really helpful.
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Great explanation Dana. Kudos to you.DanaJ wrote:Good job guys! You nailed it! E is indeed the correct answer. Here's my explanation adapted from the official Beat The GMAT Practice Questions one:
A, C and D can all be crossed off because we don't know what they "have not already" done. They have not already done what? They must have done something, but what is that something? That's why we definitely need the verb here. Some other reasons to eliminate C and D:
C features the present perfect form "have released" which indicates a past action. This is definitely wrong here because we have "tomorrow", which clearly points to a future action
D is wrong because of the verb form as well. The continuous form of verbs (in this case, "be releasing") suggests and action that takes a while to finish. When you say "I'm reading a book", it means it's taking you a bit of time to do that. If you say "I open my eyes to see the sunrise", opening your eyes takes just a split second. In our particular case, releasing the information does not take ages to complete: you click "send" on the "press release" button and that's it!
E is the correct answer here because it uses both the correct verb form and the verb after the comma, as many of you pointed out. I particularly liked FightWithGMAT's explanation, so kudos to you!
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E expresses the idea clearly.
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The way I looked at this question is that second part of the sentence needs verb from the first part of the sentence because second part of the sentence has got only helping verb "have not".DanaJ wrote:Good job guys! You nailed it! E is indeed the correct answer. Here's my explanation adapted from the official Beat The GMAT Practice Questions one:
A, C and D can all be crossed off because we don't know what they "have not already" done. They have not already done what? They must have done something, but what is that something? That's why we definitely need the verb here. Some other reasons to eliminate C and D:
C features the present perfect form "have released" which indicates a past action. This is definitely wrong here because we have "tomorrow", which clearly points to a future action
D is wrong because of the verb form as well. The continuous form of verbs (in this case, "be releasing") suggests and action that takes a while to finish. When you say "I'm reading a book", it means it's taking you a bit of time to do that. If you say "I open my eyes to see the sunrise", opening your eyes takes just a split second. In our particular case, releasing the information does not take ages to complete: you click "send" on the "press release" button and that's it!
E is the correct answer here because it uses both the correct verb form and the verb after the comma, as many of you pointed out. I particularly liked FightWithGMAT's explanation, so kudos to you!
Now helping verb in the second part needs past participle form of the verb i.e. 'released'.
So either the sentence should be changed in such a way that first and second part of the sentence both mention their own verbs (which is done in correct answer) or both the parts of sentence should accept same form of the verb( this is difficult because "should" is not underlined.
Please give you inputs if you see any flaw in this reasoning.
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