-
Chaitanya_1986
- Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts
- Posts: 183
- Joined: Sat Apr 16, 2011 11:29 am
- Thanked: 7 times
- Followed by:2 members
Gmat prep Sc - 3
This topic has expert replies
Source: Beat The GMAT — Sentence Correction |
-
Stendulkar
- Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts
- Posts: 26
- Joined: Wed Dec 22, 2010 12:53 am
- Thanked: 1 times
" persistent" in the underlined statement needs to be parallel with " So dogged". Only option E has that...
-
atulmangal
- Legendary Member
- Posts: 1112
- Joined: Sat Feb 26, 2011 11:16 am
- Thanked: 77 times
- Followed by:49 members
Buddy i post this same question a few weeks back and that includes a long discussion with experet David...search that in SC thread...that may help uChaitanya_1986 wrote:Could any one explain the following attached Sc.
-
Chaitanya_1986
- Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts
- Posts: 183
- Joined: Sat Apr 16, 2011 11:29 am
- Thanked: 7 times
- Followed by:2 members
-
atulmangal
- Legendary Member
- Posts: 1112
- Joined: Sat Feb 26, 2011 11:16 am
- Thanked: 77 times
- Followed by:49 members
David said it is an unusual question and some of my doubts are still uncleared in this question as u can see in that post....i can't forget this question...i wish such Q will not appear in GMAT...Chaitanya_1986 wrote:Oh...i missed it then...Thanks for the reminder dude.....
The people who suggest a parallelism thing in OA should consider that they are talking about parallelism b/w a clause and a phrase......just think, is that really needed...a parallelism b/w a phrase and a clause...
-
Stendulkar
- Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts
- Posts: 26
- Joined: Wed Dec 22, 2010 12:53 am
- Thanked: 1 times
Atul....too lazy to look around for your previous post (long day at work + this damned sentence correction) so would prefer to discuss here....
Without going into technicalities, the sentence starts with " So" and therefore we are looking for a " So....that" formation. Anything without this formation will sound wrong for this question....
Only options C and E have this formation. In C, " So dogged were Francis Perkins' investigations of the garment industry, her lobbying for wage and hour reform persistent, that....." is grammatically incorrect. Though Option E isnt the best option there is, others are blatantly wrong...
Without going into technicalities, the sentence starts with " So" and therefore we are looking for a " So....that" formation. Anything without this formation will sound wrong for this question....
Only options C and E have this formation. In C, " So dogged were Francis Perkins' investigations of the garment industry, her lobbying for wage and hour reform persistent, that....." is grammatically incorrect. Though Option E isnt the best option there is, others are blatantly wrong...
-
Stendulkar
- Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts
- Posts: 26
- Joined: Wed Dec 22, 2010 12:53 am
- Thanked: 1 times
Atul....too lazy to look around for your previous post (long day at work + this damned sentence correction) so would prefer to discuss here....
Without going into technicalities, the sentence starts with " So" and therefore we are looking for a " So....that" formation. Anything without this formation will sound wrong for this question....
Only options C and E have this formation. In C, " So dogged were Francis Perkins' investigations of the garment industry, her lobbying for wage and hour reform persistent, that....." is grammatically incorrect. Though Option E isnt the best option there is, others are blatantly wrong...
Without going into technicalities, the sentence starts with " So" and therefore we are looking for a " So....that" formation. Anything without this formation will sound wrong for this question....
Only options C and E have this formation. In C, " So dogged were Francis Perkins' investigations of the garment industry, her lobbying for wage and hour reform persistent, that....." is grammatically incorrect. Though Option E isnt the best option there is, others are blatantly wrong...
-
atulmangal
- Legendary Member
- Posts: 1112
- Joined: Sat Feb 26, 2011 11:16 am
- Thanked: 77 times
- Followed by:49 members
@Stendulkar
my point was related to technical issue...and i still believe that if someone pick Op E because of parallelism (so + clause , so + phrase) then that's not correct...
So...THAT...parallelism is good and important--> no issue with that.
The part in Bold is important....and i understand Op E is the only best Opthe sentence starts with " So" and therefore we are looking for a " So....that" formation. Anything without this formation will sound wrong for this question....
Only options C and E have this formation. In C, " So dogged were Francis Perkins' investigations of the garment industry, her lobbying for wage and hour reform persistent, that....." is grammatically incorrect. Though Option E isnt the best option there is, others are blatantly wrong...
my point was related to technical issue...and i still believe that if someone pick Op E because of parallelism (so + clause , so + phrase) then that's not correct...
So...THAT...parallelism is good and important--> no issue with that.
-
GMATMadeEasy
- Legendary Member
- Posts: 768
- Joined: Mon Nov 30, 2009 3:46 am
- Thanked: 21 times
- Followed by:7 members
@atulmangal : Could you give me the link to David's post ? I could not find it.
so persistent WAS her lobbying
my point was related to technical issue...and i still believe that if someone pick Op E because of parallelism (so + clause , so + phrase) then that's not correct...
may be there is ellipsis here , but we should certainly confirm with the experts."so persistent her lobbying"
so persistent WAS her lobbying
-
pemdas
- Legendary Member
- Posts: 1084
- Joined: Fri Apr 15, 2011 2:33 pm
- Thanked: 158 times
- Followed by:21 members
guys sorry to beak through the discussion in this thread, BUT i think (my view) NOTHING is unusual here, except for missing part/word in the sentence ('of' part). There is only one pattern here 'So ... That', and no parallelism is involved. The issue is that we are having two 'so' one for the cause -effect 'So ... That' and one for the emphasized meaning 'so'='very' -> So dogged were Frances Perkin's investigations of the garment industry, very (so) persistent of her lobbying for wage and hour reform, that ...
Success doesn't come overnight!
-
atulmangal
- Legendary Member
- Posts: 1112
- Joined: Sat Feb 26, 2011 11:16 am
- Thanked: 77 times
- Followed by:49 members
Here is the link, check out David repliesGMATMadeEasy wrote:@atulmangal : Could you give me the link to David's post ? I could not find it.
my point was related to technical issue...and i still believe that if someone pick Op E because of parallelism (so + clause , so + phrase) then that's not correct...may be there is ellipsis here , but we should certainly confirm with the experts."so persistent her lobbying"
so persistent WAS her lobbying
https://www.beatthegmat.com/so-dogged-we ... 80892.html
