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by CITI29 » Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:17 am
After the Colonial period’s 50 percent mortality rate,
life expectancy improved for children, but as late as
the nineteenth century about one child in three died
before reaching the age of six.

(A) After the Colonial period's 50 percent mortality
rate, life expectancy improved for children, but
(B) Even though children's life expectancy, which unchanging
improved over the Colonial period's 50 percent
mortality rate,
(C) Although life expectancy for children improved unchanging
after the Colonial period, during which the
mortality rate was 50 percent,
(D) While there was an improvement in life unchanging
expectancy for children after the 50 percent
mortality rate of the Colonial period, still
(E) Despite children's life expectancy improvement for life
from the Colonial period's 50 percent mortality rate
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by reachac » Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:24 am
IMO C
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by CITI29 » Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:27 am
ans 'C' is correct...can u explain pls...
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by reachac » Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:42 am
Ok, the question wants to show a contrast, ie inspite of the decrease, as late as 1the 19th century the deaths continued.

Now taking the options one at a time,

(A) After the Colonial period's 50 percent mortality
rate, life expectancy improved for children, but ....... life expectancy for children improved would have been better + the contrast is somewhat dull coz of u but.

(B) Even though children's life expectancy, which
improved over the Colonial period's 50 percent
mortality rate, ........remove this part and the sentence wouldnt make any sense with the remaining portion...which is the culprit here, which starts a descriptive phrase describing the life expectany and the sentence structure changes coz of that

(C) Although life expectancy for children improved
after the Colonial period, during which the
mortality rate was 50 percent, .....correct, corrects mistake in A and B

rest two should be easy to eliminate

(D) While there was an improvement in life
expectancy for children after the 50 percent
mortality rate of the Colonial period, still

(E) Despite children's life expectancy improvement for life
from the Colonial period's 50 percent mortality rate.
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by UmanG » Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:54 am
sorry but m little bit confused here...is "unchanging" part of the answers or just typo?
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by Vignesh.4384 » Sun Jul 13, 2008 5:54 pm
even i thought so . I thought it should have been unchangingly
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by bigfernhead » Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:46 am
Yes, the "unchanging" threw me off. Is it part of the original sentence?
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by kiran.raze » Sun Aug 17, 2008 7:12 am
Hi reachac,

could you please explain why did u eliminate option d - while....still ?

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by maihuna » Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:46 am
No good explanation yet, I too just got the answer correct by PoE but not able to understand fundamental....
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by logitech » Mon Dec 29, 2008 10:55 am
After removing the , non-essentials, :



(A) After the Colonial period's 50 percent mortality
rate but as late as
the nineteenth century about one child in three died
before reaching the age of six. Sentence Fragment

(B) Even though children's life expectancy as late as
the nineteenth century about one child in three died
before reaching the age of six. Sentence Fragment

(C) Although life expectancy for children improved unchanging
after the Colonial period as late as
the nineteenth century about one child in three died
before reaching the age of six.

(D) While there was an improvement in life unchanging
expectancy for children after the 50 percent
mortality rate of the Colonial period, still as late as
the nineteenth century about one child in three died
before reaching the age of six. WTF

(E) Despite children's life expectancy improvement for life
from the Colonial period's 50 percent mortality rate as late as
the nineteenth century about one child in three died
before reaching the age of six. WTF
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