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Based on records from ancient Athens!!

by gmat_perfect » Tue Jun 08, 2010 8:57 pm
Based on records from ancient Athens, each year young Athenian women collaborated to weave a new woolen robe that they used to dress a statue of the goddess Athena and that this robe depicted scenes of a battle between Zeus, Athena's father, and giants.

(A) Based on records from ancient Athens, each year young Athenian women collaborated to weave a new woolen robe that they used to dress
(B) Based on records from ancient Athens, each year young Athenian women had collaborated to weave a new woolen robe with which to dress
(C) According to records from ancient Athens, each year young Athenian women collaborated to weave a new woolen robe that they used to dress
(D) Records from ancient Athens indicate that each year young Athenian women collaborated to weave a new woolen robe with which they dressed
(E) Records from ancient Athens indicate each year young Athenian women had collaborated to weave a new woolen robe for dressing

OA: Later
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by andrey_tsi » Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:30 pm
Answer: C
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by FightWithGMAT » Wed Jun 09, 2010 6:12 am
gmat_perfect wrote:Based on records from ancient Athens, each year young Athenian women collaborated to weave a new woolen robe that they used to dress a statue of the goddess Athena and that this robe depicted scenes of a battle between Zeus, Athena's father, and giants.

(A) Based on records from ancient Athens, each year young Athenian women collaborated to weave a new woolen robe that they used to dress
(B) Based on records from ancient Athens, each year young Athenian women had collaborated to weave a new woolen robe with which to dress
(C) According to records from ancient Athens, each year young Athenian women collaborated to weave a new woolen robe that they used to dress
(D) Records from ancient Athens indicate that each year young Athenian women collaborated to weave a new woolen robe with which they dressed
(E) Records from ancient Athens indicate each year young Athenian women had collaborated to weave a new woolen robe for dressing

OA: Later
IMO D

records indicate that women collaborated ......and that this robe depicted......
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by martin.jonson007 » Wed Jun 09, 2010 6:24 am
C is very tempting....

BUT

IMO D

That.. That structure
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by nikhilkatira » Wed Jun 09, 2010 8:48 am
According to records from ancient Athens, each year young Athenian women collaborated to weave a new woolen robe that they used to dress a statue of the goddess Athena and that this robe depicted scenes of a battle between Zeus, Athena's father, and giants.

IMO C.

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by outreach » Wed Jun 09, 2010 11:29 am
D is correct

Records from ancient Athens indicate that each year young Athenian women collaborated to weave a new woolen robe with which they dressed a statue of the goddess Athena and that this robe depicted scenes of a battle between Zeus, Athena's father, and giants


"based on" is incorrect as it conveys the incorrect meaning that they consulted ancient athens records. hence A and B are out

C says that 'that they used to dress.' does not actualy mean that they put the statue on the dress
D correctly says that they put the dress on the statue
E "had collaborated" is incorrect
gmat_perfect wrote:Based on records from ancient Athens, each year young Athenian women collaborated to weave a new woolen robe that they used to dress a statue of the goddess Athena and that this robe depicted scenes of a battle between Zeus, Athena's father, and giants.

(A) Based on records from ancient Athens, each year young Athenian women collaborated to weave a new woolen robe that they used to dress
(B) Based on records from ancient Athens, each year young Athenian women had collaborated to weave a new woolen robe with which to dress
(C) According to records from ancient Athens, each year young Athenian women collaborated to weave a new woolen robe that they used to dress
(D) Records from ancient Athens indicate that each year young Athenian women collaborated to weave a new woolen robe with which they dressed
(E) Records from ancient Athens indicate each year young Athenian women had collaborated to weave a new woolen robe for dressing

OA: Later
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by pnk » Wed Jun 09, 2010 1:27 pm
Based on records from ancient Athens, each year young Athenian women collaborated to weave a new woolen robe that they used to dress a statue of the goddess Athena and that this robe depicted scenes of a battle between Zeus, Athena's father, and giants.

(C) According to records from ancient Athens, each year young Athenian women collaborated to weave a new woolen robe that they used to dress a statue ...and that this robe depicted scences of a battle

records show women collaborated to weave robe...that they used to dress statue and this robe depicted scenes (records show only one aspects...but this aspect has 2 components)

(D) Records from ancient Athens indicate that each year young Athenian women collaborated to weave a new woolen robe with which they dressed a statue....and that this robe depicted sceneces of a battle

records indicate women colleborated to weave robe...and record indicate robe depicted scenes of a battle (records show two different aspects)

for me - both are possible - but C maintains originality of sentence intact..IMO C.

Pls correct me
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by RumpelThickSkin » Wed Jun 09, 2010 1:52 pm
outreach wrote:
D is correct

Records from ancient Athens indicate that each year young Athenian women collaborated to weave a new woolen robe with which they dressed a statue of the goddess Athena and that this robe depicted scenes of a battle between Zeus, Athena's father, and giants
Parallel this why I picked D as well!
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by missionGMAT007 » Wed Jun 09, 2010 7:42 pm
C is very much tempting but in IMO [spoiler][/spoiler]D[spoiler][/spoiler]
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by Patrick_GMATFix » Wed Jun 09, 2010 11:04 pm
"Based" is an adjective and adjectives modify nouns. Any modifier introduced with an adjective must be a noun modifier. Problem in this case is that the modifier "Based on records" is not placed next to any valid target. A & B are incorrect.

E is incorrect because we need "that" (used here as a conjunction) after 'indicate' to introduce the subordinate clause that tells us what the records indicate.

D is better than C because as others have pointed out, we need a parllel structure to explain list the two things that records show: "that each year women collaborated...and that this robe depicted scenes"

The OA is D. This is GMATPrep question 2179

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by martin.jonson007 » Wed Jun 09, 2010 11:07 pm
outreach wrote:D is correct

Records from ancient Athens indicate that each year young Athenian women collaborated to weave a new woolen robe with which they dressed a statue of the goddess Athena and that this robe depicted scenes of a battle between Zeus, Athena's father, and giants


"based on" is incorrect as it conveys the incorrect meaning that they consulted ancient athens records. hence A and B are out

C says that 'that they used to dress.' does not actualy mean that they put the statue on the dress
D correctly says that they put the dress on the statue
E "had collaborated" is incorrect
gmat_perfect wrote:Based on records from ancient Athens, each year young Athenian women collaborated to weave a new woolen robe that they used to dress a statue of the goddess Athena and that this robe depicted scenes of a battle between Zeus, Athena's father, and giants.

(A) Based on records from ancient Athens, each year young Athenian women collaborated to weave a new woolen robe that they used to dress
(B) Based on records from ancient Athens, each year young Athenian women had collaborated to weave a new woolen robe with which to dress
(C) According to records from ancient Athens, each year young Athenian women collaborated to weave a new woolen robe that they used to dress
(D) Records from ancient Athens indicate that each year young Athenian women collaborated to weave a new woolen robe with which they dressed
(E) Records from ancient Athens indicate each year young Athenian women had collaborated to weave a new woolen robe for dressing

OA: Later
Sound reasonable....

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