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by tar.goyal » Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:43 am
Running down the street, a brick fell on my head.

A. a brick fell on my head.
B. I was hit by a falling brick.
C. I hit a falling brick with my head.
D. my head was hit by a falling brick.
E. a falling brick hit my head.

What should be the correct answer. I am confused between B and D.

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by camitava » Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:48 am
Tar.goyel, first try to answer the following Qs -
Who was running down the street? - You or your head? I think, the answer should be YOU. So the best option to chose is B not D.
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by madhavi » Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:22 pm
I think the answer choice is B because the sentence in the Q sounds like the brick was running. So is it the brick or you?

So, better be choice B.

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Re: SC Problem

by lunarpower » Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:29 am
tar.goyal wrote:Running down the street, a brick fell on my head.

A. a brick fell on my head.
B. I was hit by a falling brick.
C. I hit a falling brick with my head.
D. my head was hit by a falling brick.
E. a falling brick hit my head.

What should be the correct answer. I am confused between B and D.

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the other posters are correct, but they haven't mentioned the baseline idea that underlies this problem: a 'headless' modifier at the beginning of the sentence - that is, a modifier without a subject of its own - must modify the noun that comes directly after it.

that concept alone gets you down to b and c; since c is absurd, b is the last one standing.

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incidentally, whenever you see a gmat problem with a headless modifier, you should immediately scan the subjects that follow it; at least a couple of them are bound to be wrong.
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