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by vaivish » Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:02 am
538. Not since Galileo suffered the “scurvy humor” of the Inquisition has a religious organization so effectively curbed the ability of a major scientist that he could pursue a theory.
(A) has a religious organization so effectively curbed the ability of a major scientist that he could pursue
(B) did a religious organization so effectively curb the ability of a major scientist that he could pursue
(C) has a religious organization so effectively curbed the ability of a major scientist to pursue
(D) did a religious organization so effectively curb the ability of a major scientist to pursue
(E) has a religious organization so effectively curbed whether a major scientist had the ability that he could be pursuing
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by jsl » Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:43 am
Is the answer C?

"has" seems to be correct and answer C is simpler than both the other answer choices which are unnecessary wordy. In answer choice A, I don't think "that" is required (but it might be)...
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by reachac » Fri Jul 25, 2008 7:18 am
IMO C
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by iwill » Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:18 am
I couldn't make out anything! Please explain..
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by swati.sug » Mon Jul 28, 2008 11:38 pm
The sentence means that "No religious organization has curbed the ability of a scientist to pursue a theory since Galileo suffered from scurvy humor"

Has indicates that till now no org has curbed .....X
B and D use did
So we are left with A C E
E is wrong....whether makes no sense,he could be pursuing is wrong
A uses ability that he could pursue ....wrong idiom
C uses ability of scientist to pusue.......correct idiom
C is correct
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by kiranlegend » Fri Aug 01, 2008 12:26 am
vaivish wrote:538. Not since Galileo suffered the “scurvy humor” of the Inquisition has a religious organization so effectively curbed the ability of a major scientist that he could pursue a theory.
(A) has a religious organization so effectively curbed the ability of a major scientist that he could pursue
(B) did a religious organization so effectively curb the ability of a major scientist that he could pursue
(C) has a religious organization so effectively curbed the ability of a major scientist to pursue
(D) did a religious organization so effectively curb the ability of a major scientist to pursue
(E) has a religious organization so effectively curbed whether a major scientist had the ability that he could be pursuing
IMO C.. but i have question regarding the usage of that:

'did a religious organization so effectively curb the ability of a major scientist that he could pursue'

in the above quoted stmt, what does that referring to? it's clear that it shd refer to ability.. but many times we take a noun adjacent to that right?? the reason i ask this qeustion is that i have seen at various places that is taking taking farther noun and sometimes juxtaposed noun..

for eg. consider.. noun 1 of noun 2 that.. sometimes that is taking noun1 and sometimes it is taking noun 2.

could someone please clarify this?

thanks!
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by Mani_mba » Fri Aug 01, 2008 11:28 pm
kiranlegend,

see the discussions in this post to get clarified. ..

https://www.beatthegmat.com/kiowa-matriarch-t15040.html
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by Sharma_Gaurav » Thu Sep 17, 2009 12:22 pm
What about the idiom " so X that Y" is ignored here.
That was the only reason I picked A over C,

Please somebody clarify.

SC sucks sometimes :(
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by vaibhav.iit2002 » Thu Sep 17, 2009 8:11 pm
Sharma_Gaurav wrote:What about the idiom " so X that Y" is ignored here.
That was the only reason I picked A over C,

Please somebody clarify.

SC sucks sometimes :(

Ability of X to Y is correct hence C. Also A is wordy - "the ability of a major scientist that he could pursue ..."
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by sunnyjohn » Thu Sep 17, 2009 8:57 pm
A,B and E are straight out.

Correct IDIOM : ability...to

out of C and D:

DID or HAS ?

subject + verb:
a religious organization [DID or HAS] .....!

I think it should be HAS.
so my PICK C.
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