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Change of meaning ??? T3 , V30.

by himu » Mon Jul 01, 2013 6:48 am
More than have any of its competitors, Dynacorp, which will release its annual earnings report on Friday, is staking its future on the business of bringing shale gas from formerly inaccessible locations like the Arctic and energy-hungry nations like India and China.

More than have any of its competitors, Dynacorp, which will release its annual earnings report on Friday, is staking its future on the business of bringing shale gas from formerly inaccessible locations like the Arctic and energy-hungry nations like India and China.

More than has any of its competitors, Dynacorp, which will release its annual earnings report on Friday, has staked its future on the business of bringing shale gas from formerly inaccessible locations like the Arctic to energy-hungry nations like India and China.

More so than any of its competitors, Dynacorp, which will release its annual earnings report on Friday, is staking its future on the business of bringing shale gas from formerly inaccessible locations like the Arctic and energy-hungry nations such as India and China.

More than any of its competitors have, Dynacorp, which will release its annual earnings report on Friday, staked its future on the business of bringing shale gas from formerly inaccessible locations like the Arctic and energy-hungry nations such as India and China.

More than any of its competitors, Dynacorp, which will release its annual earnings report on Friday, is staking its future on the business of bringing shale gas from formerly inaccessible locations like the Arctic to energy-hungry nations like India and China.


[spoiler]OA : E.
My Q is how can it be correct;doesnt E change the meaning of original statement?
from formerly inaccessible locations like the Arctic and energy-hungry nations like India and China. to formerly inaccessible locations like the Arctic to energy-hungry nations like India and China.[/spoiler]
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by dumbest » Tue Jul 09, 2013 8:09 am
For the time being ignore the from/to difference and look at the first clause:

More than...competitors,....

Only D & E have the first part close to correct(A,B,C don't make sense):

D)More than any of its competitors have, DynaCorp,...,staked its future...
E)More than any of its competitors,DynaCorp,...,is staking its future....

There is a tense issue with have and staked
They should be in the same tense. So E should be correct.

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by Brian@VeritasPrep » Tue Jul 09, 2013 9:46 am
Be really careful with the "it changes the meaning!!" philosophy. For a few reasons:

1) Answer choice A is wrong approximately 80% of the time. There's nothing magic about the original sentence. So you should be very, very open to changing the original sentence.

2) Bad grammar often leads to bad meanings. Take a modifier error - "Founded in 1895, the members of the Elks Club perform community service...". That's wrong, but to fix it you have to change the meaning - that sentence says "the members were founded in 1895". So in order to fix bad grammar you often do have to change a flawed meaning.

3) Nowhere in the GMAT directions does it say anything about "preserve the original meaning". Often the solutions will say something about an intended meaning, but that's generally an explanation for why an illogical meaning is wrong. Like in the modifier error above, that sentence does mean something...it's just an illogical meaning so the "intended meaning" of that sentence is "the Elks Club was founded in 1895 and its members perform community service". So "intended meaning" comes up - but not "original meaning" - and even in those cases remember that SC is a process-of-elimination game. You don't necessarily have to be able to predict the intended meaning if you can get rid of all the sloppy constructions that create illogical meanings.
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by sparkles3144 » Tue Jul 09, 2013 11:27 am
I am not sure if my reasoning is right but this is how I approached it...

Idiom: from... to...

In A, C, and D... from... and...

So, I elminated A, C, and D

I am left with B and E

B is awkward.

E sounds so much better
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by David@VeritasPrep » Wed Jul 10, 2013 5:44 pm
Just to amplify what Brian said, I wrote a posting a couple of years ago where I researched the supposed "change in meaning" on sentence correction. What I found is what Brian said, no Official Guide Question (the 12th edition at that time) had any answer eliminated based on a "change in meaning."

Here is the link to my posting "The truth about changing the meaning on sentence correction." https://www.beatthegmat.com/the-truth-ab ... 76648.html
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