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by ska7945 » Thu Aug 14, 2008 8:13 am
In l933 the rubber, clothing, and shipbuilding industries put into effect a six-hour workday,
believing it a seeming permanent accommodation rather than a temporary expedient for what many observers thought was an economy made over productive by advances in technology.
(A) believing it a seeming permanent accommodation rather than a temporary expedient for what many observers thought was
(B) believing it a seeming permanent accommodation instead of a temporary expedient for what many observers thought was
(C) believing that it was not a temporary expedient but a seeming permanent accommodation to what many observers thought of as
(D) not as a temporary expedient but as a seemingly permanent accommodation to what many observers thought was
(E) not as a temporary expedient but believing it a seemingly permanent accommodation for what many observers thought


answer D
what's wrong with C? Is it jsut wordy?
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Re: six hour workday..

by kiranlegend » Thu Aug 14, 2008 12:09 pm
ska7945 wrote:In l933 the rubber, clothing, and shipbuilding industries put into effect a six-hour workday,
believing it a seeming permanent accommodation rather than a temporary expedient for what many observers thought was an economy made over productive by advances in technology.
(A) believing it a seeming permanent accommodation rather than a temporary expedient for what many observers thought was
(B) believing it a seeming permanent accommodation instead of a temporary expedient for what many observers thought was
(C) believing that it was not a temporary expedient but a seeming permanent accommodation to what many observers thought of as
(D) not as a temporary expedient but as a seemingly permanent accommodation to what many observers thought was
(E) not as a temporary expedient but believing it a seemingly permanent accommodation for what many observers thought


answer D
what's wrong with C? Is it jsut wordy?
A and B are run-on sentences.. E doesn't have modal verb.

C or D for me.. I ruled out C because seeming is an adjective. But here we need adverb which is properly placed in D.

instead of and rather than.. are both correct on GMAT? could some one please let me know?:)
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by saurabh_dce08 » Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:18 pm
@ Kiranlegend

A & B run on sentences ??? :shock:

Both options contain gerund phrases !!!
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by kiranlegend » Fri Aug 15, 2008 1:10 am
saurabh_dce08 wrote:@ Kiranlegend

A & B run on sentences ??? :shock:

Both options contain gerund phrases !!!
sorry.. yeah you are right.. and they have 'for' acting as a conjunction to link up phrase with the following clause..


correct me if am wrong.. :oops:
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by Suyog » Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:44 am
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I guess ur resoning to differentiate C & D is perfect.

Permanent is an Adjective and to modify an Adjective we need an Adverb.

So we have to use seemingly and not seeming.

and 2: the idiom not as x but as y is correct.

Choose(d).
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