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by GmatKiss » Thu Sep 15, 2011 11:55 am
In an unusual rebuke of a senior aide, Chancellor Micheal Duston today publicly criticized Finance Minister Otto Schmidt, who has called for significant restraints in welfare spending for helping West Germany to pull out of the recession

a)In an unusual rebuke of a senior aide, Chancellor Micheal Duston today publicly criticized Finance Minister Otto Schmidt, who has called for significant restraints in welfare spending for helping West Germany to pull out of the recession

b)In an unusual rebuke of a senior aide, Chancellor Micheal Duston today publicly criticized Finance Minister Otto Schmidt, who has called for significant restraints in welfare spending to help pull West Germany out of a recession

c)In an unusual rebuke of a senior aide, Chancellor Micheal Duston today publicly criticized Finance Minister Otto Schmidt, who has called for significant restraints in welfare spend to help West Germany pull out of recession

d)In an unusual rebuke of a senior aide, Chancellor Micheal Duston today publicly criticized Finance Minister Otto Schmidt, who has called for significant restraints in welfare spending for helping West Germany to pull out of a recession

e)In an unusual rebuke of a senior aide, Chancellor Micheal Duston today publicly has criticized Finance Minister Otto Schmidt has called for significant restraints in welfare spending for pulling West Germany out of a recession

OA after some time
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by zaarathelab » Thu Sep 15, 2011 12:29 pm
I'd go with C.

We need to use subjunctive here. Call/recommend/propose, hypothetical/proposed situations require it.
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by patanjali.purpose » Thu Sep 15, 2011 12:43 pm
GmatKiss wrote:In an unusual rebuke of a senior aide, Chancellor Micheal Duston today publicly criticized Finance Minister Otto Schmidt, who has called for significant restraints in welfare spending for helping West Germany to pull out of the recession

a)In an unusual rebuke of a senior aide, Chancellor Micheal Duston today publicly criticized Finance Minister Otto Schmidt, who has called for significant restraints in welfare spending for helping West Germany to pull out of the recession

b)In an unusual rebuke of a senior aide, Chancellor Micheal Duston today publicly criticized Finance Minister Otto Schmidt, who has called for significant restraints in welfare spending to help pull West Germany out of a recession

c)In an unusual rebuke of a senior aide, Chancellor Micheal Duston today publicly criticized Finance Minister Otto Schmidt, who has called for significant restraints in welfare spend to help West Germany pull out of recession

d)In an unusual rebuke of a senior aide, Chancellor Micheal Duston today publicly criticized Finance Minister Otto Schmidt, who has called for significant restraints in welfare spending for helping West Germany to pull out of a recession

e)In an unusual rebuke of a senior aide, Chancellor Micheal Duston today publicly has criticized Finance Minister Otto Schmidt has called for significant restraints in welfare spending for pulling West Germany out of a recession

OA after some time
C: (recession vs the recession in A; need a noun after prep 'in')
B/D: (a recession vs the recession)
E: (a recession vs the recession; has criticized & has called - 2 verbs without connector)

IMO A
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by Juggernaut_86 » Thu Sep 15, 2011 9:32 pm
IMO - B

"to help pull WG out of a recession" sounds better....
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by gunjan1208 » Thu Sep 15, 2011 9:44 pm
IMO B.

To help pull Germany out of a recession.

It clearly tells that he wanted to help through his activity to pull Geramany out of a recession....

other choice indicate the Germany wanted to pull out of recession with the help given.....Wnated to pull...Who?

However, I am not sure if "A recession" or "the recession" may make/break a sentence. Would need expert help on this.

Thanks.
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by GmatKiss » Fri Sep 16, 2011 1:24 pm
OA is B
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by gunjan1208 » Sat Sep 17, 2011 2:42 am
LET ME APPRECIATE SOMEBODY WHO IS DOING EXCELLENT JOB IN THE FORUM

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THANKS FOR BEING VERY RESPONSIVE. I PARTICULARLY WANTED TO APPRECIATE YOUR OWNERSHIP OF POSTING OAs.
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by GmatKiss » Sat Sep 17, 2011 2:58 am
gunjan1208 wrote:LET ME APPRECIATE SOMEBODY WHO IS DOING EXCELLENT JOB IN THE FORUM

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THANKS FOR BEING VERY RESPONSIVE. I PARTICULARLY WANTED TO APPRECIATE YOUR OWNERSHIP OF POSTING OAs.
Thanks Gunjan :),that makes me keep going!
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by aspirant2011 » Sat Sep 17, 2011 7:16 am
I am confused with the usage between to help pull Germany out of or to help Germany pull out of..........can anyone clarify on this part?
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by saketk » Sun Sep 18, 2011 8:41 am
aspirant2011 wrote:I am confused with the usage between to help pull Germany out of or to help Germany pull out of..........can anyone clarify on this part?
Hey - though I am not 100% sure about this i'll try to help you understand this.

Say for example I ask this question -- Aspirant2011 can you "help me pull John out of" the hotel room..

This sounds totally correct to me.. to pull john out of hotel room (.. for whatever reason :) ) ..I am asking for your help.
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by aspirant2011 » Sun Sep 18, 2011 8:48 am
saketk wrote:
aspirant2011 wrote:I am confused with the usage between to help pull Germany out of or to help Germany pull out of..........can anyone clarify on this part?
Hey - though I am not 100% sure about this i'll try to help you understand this.

Say for example I ask this question -- Aspirant2011 can you "help me pull John out of" the hotel room..

This sounds totally correct to me.. to pull john out of hotel room (.. for whatever reason :) ) ..I am asking for your help.
thanks for your response.........I still require my doubt to be explained in little more detail :(
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by GmatKiss » Sun Sep 18, 2011 7:37 pm
aspirant2011 wrote:I am confused with the usage between to help pull Germany out of or to help Germany pull out of..........can anyone clarify on this part?
This is worthy of a doubt!
Waiting for someone to explain in detial.

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by gunjan1208 » Sun Sep 18, 2011 9:26 pm
Hi GMAT Kiss,

Please read my explanation which I have written already:-->
It clearly tells that he wanted to help through his activity to pull Geramany out of a recession....

other choice indicate the Germany wanted to pull out of recession with the help given.....Wanted to pull...Who? What I want to say here that there is a help given to Germany to come out of the recession......Germany is not getting help to help somebody in turn to come out of the rercession.

However, I am not sure if "A recession" or "the recession" may make/break a sentence. Would need expert help on this.

These kind of sentences are really used in Spoken English.....[particularly on star movies:)]

See example given by SaketK.
See the condition below as well:-
If I ask help from my parents to come out of my debts which i am unable to pay I can say like this:--

"help me nullify my Debts"

Hope this helps.....
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by zaarathelab » Sun Sep 18, 2011 10:19 pm
I am not sure why B is correct. I picked C. Can someone explain the difference between the two?
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by bubbliiiiiiii » Mon Sep 19, 2011 12:23 am
I chose B over C because of the word spending in B over spend in C.
b)In an unusual rebuke of a senior aide, Chancellor Micheal Duston today publicly criticized Finance Minister Otto Schmidt, who has called for significant restraints in welfare spending to help pull West Germany out of a recession

c)In an unusual rebuke of a senior aide, Chancellor Micheal Duston today publicly criticized Finance Minister Otto Schmidt, who has called for significant restraints in welfare spend to help West Germany pull out of recession
Moreover, I tried to analyze the difference between help pull West Germany out of a recession and help West Germany pull out of recession. I see both of them to be acceptable!

Anyways, the topic is still open to debate. :)
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