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by gmat_perfect » Thu Sep 30, 2010 2:01 am
For Mayor Bloomberg, there are considerable advantages to having reached this agreement.

A. For Mayor Bloomberg, there are considerable advantages to having reached this agreement.
B. For Mayor Bloomberg, there are considerable advantages to reach this agreement.
C. For Mayor Bloomberg, there are considerable advantages of having reached this agreement.
D. For Mayor Bloomberg, there are considerable advantages of reaching this agreement.
E. For Mayor Bloomberg, there are considerable advantages by reaching this agreement.

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by alivapriyada » Thu Sep 30, 2010 2:31 am
waiting for Experts reply.
M seeing the usage of 'to having' for the first time.
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by hitmis » Fri Oct 01, 2010 4:11 am
gmat_perfect, what is the source of the question ?

Imo C is right. No sure what is the right idiom.

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by niksworth » Fri Oct 01, 2010 4:45 am
Insane question. I seem to have no clue. Posting just to follow this one.

By the way, what is the source ?
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by gmat_perfect » Fri Oct 01, 2010 6:51 am
Source is the local prep company.

I was also thinking this one not like a gmat like question.

Thanks.

Answer is A.
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by mj78ind » Fri Oct 01, 2010 9:11 am
gmat_perfect wrote:Source is the local prep company.

I was also thinking this one not like a gmat like question.

Thanks.

Answer is A.
One more vote on the insane question category.

advantage of reaching the agreement OR advantage to reach an agreement prephrases look good but both not present :(
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by David@VeritasPrep » Fri Oct 01, 2010 6:35 pm
"For Mayor Bloomberg, there are considerable advantages to having reached this agreement."

This seems to be a specific idiom. We use an example of a such an idiom in the Veritas Prep Sentence Correction 1 book. In that particular example someone is "credited with" inventing a particular game. Many idioms on the GMAT are comparison idioms and can be learned and studied. Idioms like this one, that focus on one particular phrase are rare because they would be very unfair to anyone who is not intimately familiar with the peculiarities of particular American English phrases. (Many people born and raised in America are unfamiliar with these phrases).

Of course an idiom is where a particular word or phrase in (American) English requires a certain format. In the case of "credited" as mentioned above you are "credited with" something. In the case of this particular sentence "there are considerable advantages to having reached" works well.

Let's try to simplify and see if that helps. You could say, "there are considerable advantages to winning." You could not say "there are considerable advantages of winning." Yet you would say, "one of the advantages of this product is..." So for this type of idiom the context is everything.

I agree with consensus that such specific idiom questions are very rare on the GMAT. And if "insane" means "not really fair" I agree with that part, too!

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by kapil403 » Fri Oct 01, 2010 9:18 pm
Why is B wrong?
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by David@VeritasPrep » Sat Oct 02, 2010 8:04 am
Why is B wrong?

B would be correct if it said, "For Mayor Bloomberg, there are several ways to reach this agreement." Instead of "For Mayor Bloomberg, there are considerable advantages to reach this agreement."

In this case the "there are considerable advantages" requires you to use the -ing form. It seems that even "there are considerable advantages to reaching this agreement" would work.
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