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SC Grail Q6

by powerpuff » Tue Jan 25, 2011 4:14 am
6. The Cricket Board has constituted a three-member committee to investigate the case of the missing batsman that fled the team hotel in Amsterdam to go to London and has subsequently applied for political asylum there.

A. to investigate the case of the missing batsman that fled the team hotel in Amsterdam to go to London and has subsequently applied for political asylum there.

B. for investigating the case of the missing batsman, who fled the team hotel in Amsterdam to go to London and subsequently applied for political asylum there.

C. to investigate the case of the missing batsman, having fled the team hotel in Amsterdam to go to London and subsequently applying for political asylum there.

D. to investigate the case of the missing batsman, who fled the team hotel in Amsterdam to go to London and subsequently applied for political asylum there.

E. for investigating the case of the missing batsman, who has fled the team hotel in Amsterdam to go to London and is subsequently applying for political
asylum there.
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by BastiG » Tue Jan 25, 2011 4:28 am
I guess that d ist the correct answer. Is grail an Indian Company? Strange topics.
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by prachich1987 » Tue Jan 25, 2011 4:41 am
IMO : D

A. to investigate the case of the missing batsman that fled the team hotel in Amsterdam to go to London and has subsequently applied for political asylum there.

According to MGMAT SC guide THAT cannot be used to refer to people
Besides it says Cricket board has found asylum there...& hence changes the meaning of the sentence

B. for investigating the case of the missing batsman, who fled the team hotel in Amsterdam to go to London and subsequently applied for political asylum there.

According to me TO INVESTIGATE is a correct idiom

C. to investigate the case of the missing batsman, having fled the team hotel in Amsterdam to go to London and subsequently applying for political asylum there.

Improper usage of tense

D. to investigate the case of the missing batsman, who fled the team hotel in Amsterdam to go to London and subsequently applied for political asylum there.

Correct

E. for investigating the case of the missing batsman, who has fled the team hotel in Amsterdam to go to London and is subsequently applying for political asylum there.

Improper usage of tenses

Nice question!!
BTW Are these questions from Aristotle SC grail?
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by vatsalroxy » Tue Jan 25, 2011 5:40 am
The Cricket Board has constituted a three-member committee to investigate the case of the missing batsman that fled the team hotel in Amsterdam to go to London and has subsequently applied for political asylum there.

B , E are out clearly coz of wrong idiom usage here "for investigating".

in A C D TO INVESTIGATE is the right form of usage.

A: That doesnt have a reference .!

C : having fled ...tries to modify the whole phrase which is irrelevant in terms of modifying. So gerund here is misused.

D: the pronoun WHO correctly modifies the missing batsman and is parallel in the modifying phrase "who fled the team hotel" AND " subsequently applied for political asylum "

D stands fair amongst all
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by Brian@VeritasPrep » Tue Jan 25, 2011 2:04 pm
Critical Reasoning Bibles, Sentence Correction Grails...who knew the GMAT was such a religious experience?!

Nice work on this one, everyone. You've all done really well with D, but as I was reading it I figured I should chime in with a quick strategic note about "Decision Points". Here it really comes down to two Decision Points:

1) there's a 3/2 split between the initial two words "to investigate" and "for investigating", so that should tip you off that you very well may need to make that decision. As "to investigate" is the proper phrasing, you ought to be able to narrow this one down to A, C, and D.

2) When looking at the remaining choices, "...fled the team hotel ---> to the end" is repeated in each, so you can browse the first half of each choice for the difference, which comes down to:

...batsman THAT fled
...batsman, WHO fled
...batsman, HAVING fled

"who" is a personified modifier, and correctly modifies a person. "Having" seems to modify the committee and not the batsman, and that's illogical. And, particularly compared with "who" as a direct, personified modifier, "that" is incorrect, which brings you down to answer choice D.

Much of effective Sentence Correction comes down to your ability to find these Decision Points and then make your determinations from there, so train yourself to spot things like the 3/2 split (often found in the first or last word of each answer choice) and common one-word triggers (verbs make great Decision Points; modifiers like "who", "which", or "where", especially when following a comma, are also great Decision Points).
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by powerpuff » Wed Jan 26, 2011 9:52 am
@prachin87
Yes,these questions are from Aristotle SC Grail

@Brian

:-D Yeah, the names of these books definitely make the GMAT sound like a holy experience :-D

Thanks for the explanation and more so for the strategy to be applied in the question.
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by garima vyas » Wed Jan 26, 2011 11:58 pm
''(verbs make great Decision Points; modifiers like "who", "which", or "where", especially when following a comma, are also great Decision Points).''

thanks for the insight.
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by EducationAisle » Thu Jan 27, 2011 8:59 am
When two verbs appear together (in this case constitute and investigate), the second verbs should almost always be in the infinitive form (to + the basic form of the verb).

So, in this case, constituted...to investigate is better than constituted...for investigating

There are few verbs however, which are followed with -ing form, but the good part is that these verbs are very few. For example: Enjoy, finish etc.

We would always say: I enjoy walking on the beach and not I enjoy to walk on the beach.
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by powerpuff » Thu Jan 27, 2011 10:29 pm
EducationAisle wrote:When two verbs appear together (in this case constitute and investigate), the second verbs should almost always be in the infinitive form (to + the basic form of the verb).

So, in this case, constituted...to investigate is better than constituted...for investigating

There are few verbs however, which are followed with -ing form, but the good part is that these verbs are very few. For example: Enjoy, finish etc.

We would always say: I enjoy walking on the beach and not I enjoy to walk on the beach.
Thanks Ashish for the inputs. Noted this concept down.
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