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by HSPA » Tue Mar 29, 2011 1:14 am
Among the emotions on display in the negotiating room were anger for repeatedly raising the issue over and over again and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles from ever beginning to heal.

(A) were anger for repeatedly raising the issue over and over again and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles from ever beginning to heal
(B) was anger for repeatedly raising the issue and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles from ever beginning to heal
(C) were anger over repeatedly raising the issue and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles to begin healing
(D) was anger about the issue, which was raised over and over, and preventing the wounds from earlier battles, still raw, to begin healing
(E) were anger about the issue, which was raised repeatedly, and preventing the raw wounds from earlier battles to begin to heal

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by Geva@EconomistGMAT » Tue Mar 29, 2011 1:35 am
Nice :)
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by AIM GMAT » Tue Mar 29, 2011 1:47 am
IMO B.
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by rohu27 » Tue Mar 29, 2011 1:55 am
anger for X and anger for Y...anger is the subject? which leads to B
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by HSPA » Tue Mar 29, 2011 2:14 am
Very nice AIM, rohu... OA is B and subject is 'anger'
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by 800target » Tue Mar 29, 2011 2:44 am
First picked (C) because of ''emotions'' which I thought it should be ''were'' plural BUT after saw the ''anger'' is the singular subject and we have to narrow down to B and D, BUT can somebody explain why (B) is RIGHT?? I can NOT understand the skeleton of choice B specifically this part ''from earlier battles from ever beginning to heal '' !!

Also, why D is wrong?? What is the correct idiom ''anger about'' or ''anger for'' in GMAT LAND??
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by Geva@EconomistGMAT » Tue Mar 29, 2011 3:03 am
800target wrote:First picked (C) because of ''emotions'' which I thought it should be ''were'' plural BUT after saw the ''anger'' is the singular subject and we have to narrow down to B and D, BUT can somebody explain why (B) is RIGHT?? I can NOT understand the skeleton of choice B specifically this part ''from earlier battles from ever beginning to heal '' !!

Also, why D is wrong?? What is the correct idiom ''anger about'' or ''anger for'' in GMAT LAND??
Most of the sentences in the english language follow the same basic structure of subject - verb - object. that's why we are accustomed to looking for the subject in the beginning of the sentence. this sentence prays on the natural tendency to assign the label "subject" to whatever comes at the beginning: Here, the subject is "anger", and the verb "was" comes BEFORE the subject.

The clue that this is the case is that the sentence begins with a preposition (among, for, with, etc.) : indicating that the emotions are not the subject, but something else is doing something AMONG the emotions. That something is the true subject of the sentence. It's important to find the subject and the verb in such a case, since If the GMAT question writers went to such great effort to construct a screwed up sentence where the verb precedes the subject, you can count on an SVA error to be in there, to trap those who treat "emotions" as the subject just because it's the first thing in the sentence.

So the method is as follows:
1) recognize that the preposition in the beginning means that this is no ordinary S-V-O sentence.

2) Discount "emotions" as the subject, and look for what is doing the action "among" the emotions: In this case, the anger "was" among the emotions, so the anger is the subject.

3) Look for the verb before the subject: what does the anger "do"?, and see if the verb and subject agree.

Since anger is a singular subject, the verb should be singular as well: we're already down to B and D.

As to why B is better than D, forget idioms and look at parallelism: in B you have "anger...for raising...and preventing", but in D there's nothing to parallel "and preventing".
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by 800target » Tue Mar 29, 2011 5:46 am
As to why B is better than D, forget idioms and look at parallelism: in B you have "anger...for raising...and preventing", but in D there's nothing to parallel "and preventing".

Thanks so much for your nice explanation Geva. Just want to make sure whether I got the point correctly or not? With regard to your saying and parallelism concept, in choice D we can not find any parallel elements b/w ''anger about the issue'' and ''preventing'' while AND is a indicator of parallelism, right??

anger about X and Y----------> X & Y SHOULD be parallel while X=the issue and Y=preventing here, but here parallesim is missed out.
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by Geva@EconomistGMAT » Tue Mar 29, 2011 5:53 am
800target wrote:As to why B is better than D, forget idioms and look at parallelism: in B you have "anger...for raising...and preventing", but in D there's nothing to parallel "and preventing".

Thanks so much for your nice explanation Geva. Just want to make sure whether I got the point correctly or not? With regard to your saying and parallelism concept, in choice D we can not find any parallel elements b/w ''anger about the issue'' and ''preventing'' while AND is a indicator of parallelism, right??

anger about X and Y----------> X & Y SHOULD be parallel while X=the issue and Y=preventing here, but here parallesim is missed out.
Broadly, yes. Even if we did have parallelism here, it doesn't make sense logically to connect the two: anger about preventing?
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