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by davidforsberg » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:48 am
but when he heard in 1609.....does that sound right???
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by resilient » Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:24 am
ok first off..gmat hates the word being because it is a form of passive voice and try to avoid it whenever possible. remember the process of elimination is in three steps. 1. grammar 2. meaning 3. style

e. contains the word being so stay away
a. hold
b. galileo had not.....eliminate not grammatical
c.very very wordy eliminate
d. doesnt contain BUT which is needed for the parallelism or contrast.

correct me if I am wrong folks..hope that helps
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by Stuart@KaplanGMAT » Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:50 pm
"Being" is indeed a great word to avoid in SC.

Another reason to eliminate (e) is that it uses 2 connectors ("even though" and "but") to join independent clauses. The rule is that we need 1 and only 1 such connector.
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by atljogger » Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:40 pm
This forum has been a great resource - thanks for all of the awesome info. A follow-up on this one - why doesn't choice D work. Can't you say "On hearing X, Y happened"??

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by aj5105 » Fri Oct 03, 2008 4:07 am
Can somebody please explain why D is wrong?
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by Stuart@KaplanGMAT » Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:52 am
aj5105 wrote:Can somebody please explain why D is wrong?
If you examine the second clause in the sentence, you see that D has no subject.

The first clause in the sentence is "Galilieo did not invent the telescope".

The second clause in the sentence is "quickly built his own device...".

"built" is the main predicate (i.e. verb) in the second clause. By omitting "he", (D) leaves that clause without a subject.
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