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by JS_2 » Thu Aug 25, 2011 9:37 am
fell for "B"
fightwithGmat's explanation is really helpful.
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by Deependra1 » Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:19 am
Answer:D ?
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by hortensia lobe » Thu Sep 08, 2011 10:32 pm
Answer C??
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by navami » Fri Sep 09, 2011 9:47 am
IMO E
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by akashamrev » Tue Sep 13, 2011 5:21 am
I think this was really the easy one :P

Without any confusion I would fire my answer as E
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by parul9 » Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:57 am
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by cvillegmat\'13 » Wed Oct 19, 2011 12:14 pm
definitely E
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by immaculatesahai » Fri Nov 04, 2011 11:57 pm
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!
Great explanation Dana. Kudos to you.
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by ArunangsuSahu » Sat Nov 12, 2011 7:54 pm
Always (E)
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by ReyWilli » Sun Dec 04, 2011 12:35 pm
I went with E, as A,B,C,D doesnt clarify what they have done. The sentence seems incomplete with those choices. Since E clarifies what they have not done, I selected.
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by apex231 » Sun Dec 04, 2011 7:16 pm
A. release the result tomorrow morning, if they have not already.


Isn't "release result" implicit in option A? Can't we treat this as ellipsis?

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by amit2k9 » Sun Dec 04, 2011 10:43 pm
E expresses the idea clearly.
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by akhileshtiwari » Mon Dec 12, 2011 1:09 pm
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!
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".
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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by A148507 » Tue Dec 13, 2011 2:44 am
E it is
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by tuanquang269 » Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:40 am
IMO E

Choice A does not show the officials have not already do what, very ambiguous.
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