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Aristotle SC trail question.

by bubbliiiiiiii » Thu Apr 28, 2011 12:33 am
54. After its international debut, the progress of the Cube towards the toy shop shelves of
the West was briefly halted so that it could be manufactured to Western safety and
packaging specifications.
A. After its international debut, the progress of the Cube towards the toy shop
shelves of the West was briefly halted so that it
B. Since its international debut, the progress of the Cube towards the toy shop
shelves of the West had been briefly halted so that it
C. After its international debut, the progress of the Cube towards the toy shop
shelves of the West was briefly halted so as to ensure that it
D. The cube's progress towards the toy shop shelves of the West was
briefly halted after its international debut so that it
E. Since its international debut, the progress of the Cube towards the toy shop
shelves of the West was briefly halted so that it


OA D.

OE,
Concepts Tested - Modification, Diction
A - "—After its international debut' should refer to the "—cube' and not to the "—cube's progress'
(SC Grail - pg. 71)
B - "—Since' distorts the meaning of the original sentence
C - "—After its international debut' should refer to the "—cube' and not to the "—cube's progress'.
"—So as to' cannot be used to replace "—in order to'. (SC Grail - pg. 71, 114)
E - Awkward construction. "—After its international debut' should refer to the "—cube' and not to
the "—cube's progress'

Updated OA and OE.
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by force5 » Thu Apr 28, 2011 1:02 am
couldnt understand the question Bubbliiiii (sorry if i missed some i's)

i think all choices are incorrect.

A,B,C, E have dangling modifier error.

D although doesnt have that error but "it" not only doesnt have a clear referent but it also is referring to the cube which is incorrect.
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by atulmangal » Thu Apr 28, 2011 1:29 am
IMO A

I'm between A and E..a bit confused b/w the use of since / after....but i think Op A is correct as am applying a cheap trick...since indicate something happened in past and continue till present and thats why we almost always use present perfect with SINCE...and in Op E no such thing is there so i drop this and pick Op A...
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by HSPA » Thu Apr 28, 2011 1:36 am
After its internaltionl debut, "the action figure" was stoped for production norms.

+1 for D
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by force5 » Thu Apr 28, 2011 1:39 am
atul A has a clear modifier error how can you choose A?? are you talking about the debut of the progress??

i think if you want to neglect the pronoun error then D is the closest.
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by atulmangal » Thu Apr 28, 2011 1:51 am
force5 wrote:atul A has a clear modifier error how can you choose A?? are you talking about the debut of the progress??

i think if you want to neglect the pronoun error then D is the closest.
Hey force, thanks for pointing that...i was so much involved in Since / After thing that i certainly ignored that....

moreover Op D i drop straight away because

Op D: The cube's progress towards the toy shop shelves of the West was
briefly halted after its international debut so that it

cube's is a possessive...the use of ITS is accepted i think but the use of IT is wrong...IT can not refer to a possessive cube's and if it is referring to "toy shop shelves" then the meaning will be distorted...


Hence, i think u r correct, none of the Op Seems correct...rest an expert can answer...
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by bubbliiiiiiii » Thu Apr 28, 2011 2:07 am
couldnt understand the question Bubbliiiii (sorry if i missed some i's)
Same problem with me. I couldnot understand it but somehow selected A which turned out to be wrong.

As far as number of i's is concerned, no problem dude. Instead, you can always check the signature of postee and refer him/her by his/her 'actual' name. :P
cube's is a possessive...the use of ITS is accepted i think but the use of IT is wrong
I think a non-possesive pronoun can always refer to a possessive noun. (Read in one of Ron's post.)

The only rule is that a noun cannot be referred by a possessive pronoun.

Fingers crossed, if someone can verify the above two statements on possesive pronoun reference. :D
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by force5 » Thu Apr 28, 2011 2:12 am
thanks bro im still learning....

the choices A, B C and E can be ruled out because of modifier problem.
you are correct, by the book It should not refer to the cube. (that is incorrect) but if we can ignore that error then we choose D. If not then all choices are incorrect.

rule wise you are correct.
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by AIM GMAT » Thu Apr 28, 2011 3:18 am
I too went by A , as was thinking on the similar lines as Atul mentioned .

D clearly has possesive noun's problem but even A is not apt with the mosdifier issue .

Got the below response from the Aristotle team on their website :-

You are right but the idea here is to go with the best option of the lot and not necessarily the ideal option. A lot of times on high-dificulty GMAT questions all the options look bad but then you have to go with the best out of the five options.

The ideal answer to this question should be this - The cube's progress towards the toy shop shelves of the West was briefly halted after the cubes' international debut so that the cube could be manufactured to Western safety and packaging specifications..
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by atulmangal » Thu Apr 28, 2011 4:36 am
You are right but the idea here is to go with the best option of the lot and not necessarily the ideal option. A lot of times on high-dificulty GMAT questions all the options look bad but then you have to go with the best out of the five options.

The ideal answer to this question should be this - The cube's progress towards the toy shop shelves of the West was briefly halted after the cubes' international debut so that the cube could be manufactured to Western safety and packaging specifications..
IMO, This answer from Aristotle team is a crap...Moreover, it seems that these people are justifying their mistake in a stupid way....an option having a grammatical mistake can never the correct answer on GMAT, yes, i agree that sometimes an awkward and awfully written option can be the answer....but here Op D has a grammatical mistake so i believe it can't be an answer on GMAT...

Plus the "ideal answer" given by the team...hehhehe...look at that....is that a perfect answer...??? excessive and repeated use of possessives and nouns...what a joke.!! i used to like their SC book, "Sentence correction grail" and thought their question bank must be good but this kind of cheap explanation from their team makes a bad impression..
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by aspirant2011 » Thu Apr 28, 2011 5:38 am
i agree with atul, second "it" in the sentence needs to refer to "cube" not to "cube's progress" as its not the "progress" which needs to be made according to "west"...........
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