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by maihuna » Mon Jun 29, 2009 11:11 am
Contrary to the scholarly wisdom of the 1950�s and early 1960's that predicted the processes of modernization and rationalization would gradually undermine it, ethnicity is a worldwide phenomenon of increasing importance.

(A) would gradually undermine it
(B) to be a gradual undermining of it
(C) would be a gradual undermining of ethnicity
(D) to gradually undermine ethnicity
(E) gradually undermining it
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by rahulg83 » Mon Jun 29, 2009 11:30 am
maihuna wrote:Contrary to the scholarly wisdom of the 1950’s and early 1960’s that predicted the processes of modernization and rationalization would gradually undermine it, ethnicity is a worldwide phenomenon of increasing importance.

(A) would gradually undermine it
(B) to be a gradual undermining of it
(C) would be a gradual undermining of ethnicity
(D) to gradually undermine ethnicity
(E) gradually undermining it
Stuck between A and D...
But IMO A should be predicted that....would gradually.. 'that' is missing.
Will go with D, although it sounds a bit awkward..
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by maihuna » Mon Jun 29, 2009 11:35 am
rahulg83 wrote: Stuck between A and D...
But IMO A should be predicted that....would gradually.. 'that' is missing.
Will go with D, although it sounds a bit awkward..
dont do that plz
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by maihuna » Mon Jun 29, 2009 11:35 am
plz dont go with D
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by rahulg83 » Mon Jun 29, 2009 11:49 am
maihuna wrote:plz dont go with D
What's the answer then? I am confused :?
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by raghavsarathy » Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:10 am
IMO - E

Precise and without any flaws :D OA ?
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by rahulg83 » Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:21 am
hey nice to see someone replying on this thread :)
i was confused what could 'it' refer in the first part of the sentence (before comma)
can you elaborate a bit?
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by raghavsarathy » Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:50 am
Hi Rahul
"it" should refer to ethnicity.

This is a case of the "it" being a part of the main clause yet referring to "ethnicity" which is part of the subordinate clause.

This theory would fall flat if the OA is not E. :lol:

To me in C and D , the usage of "ethnicity" seemed redundant because we already have a comma after it.
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by maihuna » Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:49 am
E is light years away...not undermining....when the last time you read something predicted for future as undermining.....

would undermine is good one....as would is good for future references, that is not sure to happen...OA is A only.
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by pratikgandhi » Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:28 am
maihuna wrote:
Contrary to the scholarly wisdom of the 1950’s and early 1960’s that predicted the processes of modernization and rationalization would gradually undermine it, ethnicity is a worldwide phenomenon of increasing importance.

(A) would gradually undermine it (It can refer to modernization, rationalization and ethnicity)
(B) to be a gradual undermining of it(Same as above)
(C) would be a gradual undermining of ethnicity (Akward.. would be a ...)
(D) to gradually undermine ethnicity CORRECT
(E) gradually undermining it(Same as above)

IMO D
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by maihuna » Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:11 am
pratikgandhi wrote:maihuna wrote:
Contrary to the scholarly wisdom of the 1950’s and early 1960’s that predicted the processes of modernization and rationalization would gradually undermine it, ethnicity is a worldwide phenomenon of increasing importance.

(A) would gradually undermine it (It can refer to modernization, rationalization and ethnicity)
(B) to be a gradual undermining of it(Same as above)
(C) would be a gradual undermining of ethnicity (Akward.. would be a ...)
(D) to gradually undermine ethnicity CORRECT
(E) gradually undermining it(Same as above)

IMO D
oa is a

D is incorrect from following perspective: Predicted that processes( of modernization and rationalization) to gradually undermine ethnicity:

processes will processes would but never ever processes to?
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by rahulg83 » Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:00 am
maihuna wrote:
pratikgandhi wrote:maihuna wrote:
Contrary to the scholarly wisdom of the 1950’s and early 1960’s that predicted the processes of modernization and rationalization would gradually undermine it, ethnicity is a worldwide phenomenon of increasing importance.

(A) would gradually undermine it (It can refer to modernization, rationalization and ethnicity)
(B) to be a gradual undermining of it(Same as above)
(C) would be a gradual undermining of ethnicity (Akward.. would be a ...)
(D) to gradually undermine ethnicity CORRECT
(E) gradually undermining it(Same as above)

IMO D
oa is a

D is incorrect from following perspective: Predicted that processes( of modernization and rationalization) to gradually undermine ethnicity:

processes will processes would but never ever processes to?
Hey, shouldn't the original sentence be like "Contrary to the scholarly wisdom of the 1950’s and early 1960’s that predicted 'that'? I feel 'that' should be here to introduce a clause. What do you say?
What's the source of this question?
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by goelmohit2002 » Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:40 pm
rahulg83 wrote: Hey, shouldn't the original sentence be like "Contrary to the scholarly wisdom of the 1950’s and early 1960’s that predicted 'that'? I feel 'that' should be here to introduce a clause. What do you say?
What's the source of this question?
I second Rahul...

Shouldn't we use "that" to introduce subordinate clause ? As far as I remember there are similar examples in OG where OG uses that to introduce subordinate clause.

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by ketkoag » Tue Jun 30, 2009 1:26 pm
maihuna wrote:
pratikgandhi wrote:maihuna wrote:
Contrary to the scholarly wisdom of the 1950’s and early 1960’s that predicted the processes of modernization and rationalization would gradually undermine it, ethnicity is a worldwide phenomenon of increasing importance.

(A) would gradually undermine it (It can refer to modernization, rationalization and ethnicity)
(B) to be a gradual undermining of it(Same as above)
(C) would be a gradual undermining of ethnicity (Akward.. would be a ...)
(D) to gradually undermine ethnicity CORRECT
(E) gradually undermining it(Same as above)

IMO D
oa is a

D is incorrect from following perspective: Predicted that processes( of modernization and rationalization) to gradually undermine ethnicity:

processes will processes would but never ever processes to?
I feel that D should be the answer. If has to be the answer then i think that there should be a "that" after the word "predicted" in the original sentence.. Also "it" is not very clear here..
please post the source of this question.......
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by honeysn » Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:04 pm
I will go with D. If thats incorrect choice, pls explain how "it" can refer to ethnicity ?
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