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by gmat740 » Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:15 am
Roy Wilkins was among the last of a generation of civil rights activists who led the nation through decades of change so profound many young Americans are not able to imagine, even less to remember, what segregation was like.
(A) so profound many young Americans are not able to imagine, even less to remember
(B) so profound that many young Americans cannot imagine, much less remember
(C) so profound many young Americans cannot imagine nor even less remember
(D) of such profundity many young Americans cannot imagine, even less can they remember
(E) of such profundity that many young Americans are not able to imagine, much less to remember

OA-B(I was able to land up with correct answer but unfortunately I was not able to distinguish clearly between “profound” and profundity)
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by Robinmrtha » Sat Jun 20, 2009 11:53 pm
here you must remember the following pattern

So.....that

This is clearly stated in option B and E
E is lengthy and awkward....
So the answer is B
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by maihuna » Sun Jun 21, 2009 1:38 am
E is having following issue:

When it say much less to remember it is making two parallel sentences which are incorrect....
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by goelmohit2002 » Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:15 am
maihuna wrote:E is having following issue:

When it say much less to remember it is making two parallel sentences which are incorrect....
Can you please explain this in a bit more detail.
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by Domnu » Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:30 am
Here, we can eliminate choices A, C, and D since the word 'that' isn't included in these phrases. In choices B and E, choice E isn't parallel, is awkward, and extremely lengthy. This leaves us with choice B.
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by goelmohit2002 » Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:44 am
Domnu wrote:Here, we can eliminate choices A, C, and D since the word 'that' isn't included in these phrases. In choices B and E, choice E isn't parallel, is awkward, and extremely lengthy. This leaves us with choice B.
Can you please explain in a bit more detail how parallelism is broken in "E".
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by Domnu » Sun Jun 21, 2009 12:43 pm
Hmm, in retrospect, E is a bit more parallel. But it still is awkward and wordy.
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by maihuna » Sun Jun 21, 2009 12:54 pm
goelmohit2002 wrote:
maihuna wrote:E is having following issue:

When it say much less to remember it is making two parallel sentences which are incorrect....
Can you please explain this in a bit more detail.
If you combine option E the sentence will look like:
Roy Wilkins was among the last of a generation of civil rights activists who led the nation through decades of change of such profundity that many young Americans are not able to imagine, much less to remember, what segregation was like.

Here much less to remember what? what segregation was like, nope, much less to remember requires some purpose which is missing. Here it can not modify the following clause "what segregation was like" because "much less to remember" is commas separated and so is an intervenning clause and should be sufficient in itself.
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by goelmohit2002 » Sun Jun 21, 2009 12:55 pm
Domnu wrote:Hmm, in retrospect, E is a bit more parallel. But it still is awkward and wordy.
Can you please tell in what sense it is awkward.
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Re: Roy Wilkins

by BlindVision » Sun Jun 21, 2009 5:54 pm
gmat740 wrote:Roy Wilkins was among the last of a generation of civil rights activists who led the nation through decades of change so profound many young Americans are not able to imagine, even less to remember, what segregation was like.
(A) so profound many young Americans are not able to imagine, even less to remember
(B) so profound that many young Americans cannot imagine, much less remember
(C) so profound many young Americans cannot imagine nor even less remember
(D) of such profundity many young Americans cannot imagine, even less can they remember
(E) of such profundity that many young Americans are not able to imagine, much less to remember

OA-B(I was able to land up with correct answer but unfortunately I was not able to distinguish clearly between “profound” and profundity)
"E" is awkward because it has are not able to imagine, whereas, in "B", it simply uses cannot imagine. "E" has much less to remember, the "to" in there should be omitted, like it is in "B".
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by thetrystero » Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:34 am
Roy Wilkins was among the last of a generation of civil rights activists who led the nation through decades of change so profound many young Americans are not able to imagine, even less to remember, what segregation was like.
(A) so profound many young Americans are not able to imagine, even less to remember
(B) so profound that many young Americans cannot imagine, much less remember
(C) so profound many young Americans cannot imagine nor even less remember
(D) of such profundity many young Americans cannot imagine, even less can they remember
(E) of such profundity that many young Americans are not able to imagine, much less to remember

", much less remember" is the only correct usage. My answer: B
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Re: Roy Wilkins

by goelmohit2002 » Mon Aug 03, 2009 9:51 pm
BlindVision wrote: "E" is awkward because it has are not able to imagine, whereas, in "B", it simply uses cannot imagine. "E" has much less to remember, the "to" in there should be omitted, like it is in "B".
Manhattan says....given a choice prefer can over able..

so can we choose B over E based on this rule ?
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