Sentence Correction

The three women, liberal activists who strongly support legislation in favor of civil rights and environmental protection, <u>have consistently received labor's unqualifying support<u>

1. have consistently received labor's unqualifying support
2. are consistently receiving the unqualifying support of labor
3. have consistently received the unqualified support of labor
4. receive consistent and unqualified support by labor
5. are receiving consistent and unqualified support by labor.


Please explain the difference between 1 and 3.

I believe the use of passive voice in 1 makes it incorrect, as the option 3 is in active voice...

hope i'm right,,,,

chintanjadwani wrote:I believe the use of passive voice in 1 makes it incorrect, as the option 3 is in active voice...

hope i'm right,,,,

Why 2 is wrong?

leaonae wrote:The three women, liberal activists who strongly support legislation in favor of civil rights and environmental protection, <u>have consistently received labor's unqualifying support<u>

1. have consistently received labor's unqualifying support
2. are consistently receiving the unqualifying support of labor
3. have consistently received the unqualified support of labor
4. receive consistent and unqualified support by labor
5. are receiving consistent and unqualified support by labor.


Please explain the difference between 1 and 3.

IMO 3

Consistently receiving shows that they were receiving support in past as well as present .. thus use of present prefect tense..

Whts the OA..??

Why 2 is wrong?

In most situations dont change the tense of what's given unless the situation demands. For example when there are 2 past actions u use the past perfect for the 1st past action(action that happenned first out of 2 past actions) and simple past for the second etc to bring to light the sequence of events

The past perfect tense have + V3(past particple) indicates that an action started in the past and it may or may not yet be completed.

In 2) we are saying we know for sure that they are still receiving whatever they are receiving and we dont know for sure the writer wants us to believe this.

Between 1 and 3 "support of" sounds idiomatic.

Eg: I need the support of my classmates, to win the school election.

Hope this helps!

Regards,
CR

leaonae wrote:The three women, liberal activists who strongly support legislation in favor of civil rights and environmental protection, <u>have consistently received labor's unqualifying support<u>

1. have consistently received labor's unqualifying support
2. are consistently receiving the unqualifying support of labor
3. have consistently received the unqualified support of labor
4. receive consistent and unqualified support by labor
5. are receiving consistent and unqualified support by labor.


Please explain the difference between 1 and 3.

My Answer: 3

There is no way to know whether labor is still supporting them at the time of reading or will continue to support them in future. Thus ruling out present, present continuous, future etc. tenses (2,4,5)

The meaning that is trying to be expressed here is that labor completely and without reservations supports the three women. Hence, "unqualified support" is the right usage. "unqualifying" does not exist in the dictionary, and even if it did, it would probably mean something like "not kosher"/"not qualified" and so changes the meaning of the sentence. Rules out (1,2)

"labor" modifies "support", not "received" so use "of", not "by". Rules out (4,5).

Finally, "unqualified support of labor" sounds more elegant than "labor's unqualified support" (if that answer choice was offered), although both are correct.

yepp...between 1 and 3 the main difference is "unqualifying" vs "unqualified".

tks.

Also, labor's unqualifying support is awkward and implies that the support of labor is universal or always holds true.

i think A,B,C are equally good candidates to be answer
(i think any one can be defended if they say it is the answer as it only depends how are present it now....)
Gramatically A B C are correct
A and C are more correct as in many cases i have seen continous tense are not preferred in gmat( but having said that i dont think it is totally incorrect)

Between A and C almost says the same thing in this case and goes down to differece between unqualifying and unqualified....

which ever may be the answer,it will be 'digging reasons' to show another one incorrect ...lol