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by vikram4689 » Wed Jul 04, 2012 5:34 am
Reporting that one of its many problems had been the recent extended sales slump in women's apparel, the seven-store retailer said it would start a three-month liquidation sale in all of its stores.
(A) its many problems had been the recent
(B) its many problems has been the recently
(C) its many problems is the recently
(D) their many problems is the recent
(E) their many problems had been the recent


OA:A What would be the difference in meaning if RECENT is replaced with RECENTLY
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by mv12 » Wed Jul 04, 2012 7:22 am
then it will become wrong.
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by Kasia@EconomistGMAT » Wed Jul 04, 2012 7:50 am
"Recent" is an adjective and it modifies the noun "sales slump" meaning that the slump is a recent trend. "Recently" used in place of "recent" modifies the adjective "extended". Such a change would be incorrect. The sentence would sound as if somebody recently purposefully extended the slump.
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by vikram4689 » Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:19 am
Kasia@MasterGMAT wrote:The sentence would sound as if somebody recently purposefully extended the slump.
This line is exactly what i want to understand. I know recently would modify extended but how did you arrive at above line and why meaning purposefully was not present in original sentence
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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Wed Jul 04, 2012 9:46 am
vikram4689 wrote:
Kasia@MasterGMAT wrote:The sentence would sound as if somebody recently purposefully extended the slump.
This line is exactly what i want to understand. I know recently would modify extended but how did you arrive at above line and why meaning purposefully was not present in original sentence
By using the adverb form "recently", we are modifying "extended" instead of the sales slump. This seems to imply that the sales slump became longer for some reason in the recent past.

With the adjective form "recent", we know that the sales slump was both recent and extended, but it does not mean that the slump was extended by some unknown cause.
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by vikram4689 » Wed Jul 04, 2012 4:37 pm
Bill, Kasia,
Please address how use of "recently" would imply that " somebody recently purposefully extended the slump."

Please verify my understanding below:
"Recent extended sales slump" means that recent sales slump is main problem and that it is extended is extra information
"Recently extended sales slump" means that it is the recent extension in the slump (not the whole slump as in above case) that is the main problem of retailer
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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Thu Jul 05, 2012 10:12 am
I wouldn't necessarily read it as someone purposefully extending the slump, just that the extension occurred recently.

Your understanding looks good. By using the adverb form, it is possible that the slump started ago and it is only the extension that occurred recently.
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