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by crimson2283 » Thu Feb 24, 2011 2:55 am
The Diary of Anne Frank tells the true story of a young girl and her family that were hidden during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands by a gentile Dutch couple, though they were eventually discovered.

· that were hidden during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands by a gentile Dutch couple, though they were
eventually discovered
· that were hidden by a gentile Dutch couple during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, though they were eventually
discovered
· whom a gentile Dutch couple hid during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands but were eventually discovered
· who were hidden by a gentile Dutch couple during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands but were eventually
discovered
· who were hidden by a gentile Dutch couple during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands even though they were
eventually discovered
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by maihuna » Thu Feb 24, 2011 4:35 am
IMO : D

that cant be used to refer people so A B out.

Tesne, whom and construction are major issue with C.

In E, who were hidden .. and though they were eventually discovered is not parallel.

D is maintaing the parallelism by who were ... but were .. construction with SUbject being only in first place. Not an issue. Passivistic like but fine.
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by aspirant2011 » Thu Feb 24, 2011 4:37 am
i would go with D option because

A, B wrong because of the use of "that".............for girl and family usage of "that" is wrong.
C uses "whom".............whom is used for singular things
E is awkward...........
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by HSPA » Thu Feb 24, 2011 4:40 am
+1 for D

It is between D and E but in E the word "they" at the sentence end has no proper reference.
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by AIM GMAT » Thu Feb 24, 2011 5:10 am
· that were hidden during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands by a gentile Dutch couple, though they were
eventually discovered

· that were hidden by a gentile Dutch couple during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, though they were eventually
discovered

· whom a gentile Dutch couple hid during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands but were eventually discovered

· who were hidden by a gentile Dutch couple during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands but were eventually discovered

· who were hidden by a gentile Dutch couple during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands even though they were eventually discovered


IMO D
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by Target2009 » Thu Feb 24, 2011 2:05 pm
IMO : D
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by shweta.kalra » Fri Feb 25, 2011 2:45 am
hi .
still, i hav a doubt about "c". "a young girl and family" is the object of the preposition. also its antecedent "whom" corrEctly refers to "a young girl and family". cuz whom is a object pronoun. AND THE PARALLEL PHRASE WUD BE "WHOM WERE EVENTUALLY DISCOVERED"
PLS EXPLAIN THIS
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by lunarpower » Fri Feb 25, 2011 4:21 am
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shweta.kalra wrote:hi .
still, i hav a doubt about "c". "a young girl and family" is the object of the preposition. also its antecedent "whom" corrEctly refers to "a young girl and family". cuz whom is a object pronoun. AND THE PARALLEL PHRASE WUD BE "WHOM WERE EVENTUALLY DISCOVERED"
PLS EXPLAIN THIS
THNKS AND RGRDS
this all looks good -- it's the explanation for why this choice is wrong.
i.e., "whom" is an object pronoun, and so can't be the subject of the verb "were discovered".
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by GMATMadeEasy » Fri Feb 25, 2011 6:35 am
@Ron: Some people in the post above have claimed that A and B are incorrect because of incorrect usage -using that for people - of that. However, it is wrong as far i know.

Could you please confirm the same . Who knows i have learnt wrong ,may be,as I do not see you disapproving this in your post . bigger reason for my worry :) .
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by lunarpower » Fri Feb 25, 2011 6:48 am
GMATMadeEasy wrote:@Ron: Some people in the post above have claimed that A and B are incorrect because of incorrect usage -using that for people - of that. However, it is wrong as far i know.
yep -- can't use "that" for people.
Could you please confirm the same . Who knows i have learnt wrong ,may be,as I do not see you disapproving this in your post . bigger reason for my worry :) .
i was responding to a post that asked only about choice (c).
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by shweta.kalra » Fri Feb 25, 2011 7:46 am
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by tetura84 » Fri Feb 25, 2011 9:42 am
So Ron, are you saying that in option C, "whom a gentile Dutch couple hid during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands" clause is correct but the option is wrong because whom were eventually discovered is wrong?
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by lunarpower » Fri Feb 25, 2011 4:21 pm
tetura84 wrote:So Ron, are you saying that in option C, "whom a gentile Dutch couple hid during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands" clause is correct but the option is wrong because whom were eventually discovered is wrong?
yeah.

... although, upon further research, the who/whom distinction has never actually been tested on the modern version of the gmat, so this isn't really worth worrying about.
i.e., the gmat has NEVER used "who" where "whom" should be, nor vice versa. (there are a couple of problems in which both forms appear in the choices -- see, e.g., og12 #1 -- but, in *all* of those cases, the correct form is used in each context.)

this problem has actually been deactivated from our cat exams for some time now, for this exact reason; we'll reactivate it once we get rid of this issue (since it's an irrelevant distraction). needless to say, we'll also have to make that choice wrong in some other way.
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