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by rohu27 » Tue Feb 22, 2011 6:35 am
The football team, tired after four hours of practice and wanted to reach home quickly, took a short cut.

A. tired after four hours of practice and wanted to reach home quickly, took a
short cut.
B. tired after four hours of practice and wanting to reach home quickly,
took a short cut.
C. tired after four hours of practice and because they wanted to reach home
quickly, took a short cut.
D. tired after four hours of practice and wanting to reach home quickly, will take
a short cut.
E. tiring after four hours of practice and wanting to reach home quickly, took a
short cut.
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by ram2 » Tue Feb 22, 2011 6:47 am
Is the answer A ?
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by pesfunk » Tue Feb 22, 2011 7:08 am
OA is B.

https://gmatclub.com/forum/the-football- ... 08944.html
rohu27 wrote:The football team, tired after four hours of practice and wanted to reach home quickly, took a short cut.

A. tired after four hours of practice and wanted to reach home quickly, took a
short cut.
B. tired after four hours of practice and wanting to reach home quickly,
took a short cut.
C. tired after four hours of practice and because they wanted to reach home
quickly, took a short cut.
D. tired after four hours of practice and wanting to reach home quickly, will take
a short cut.
E. tiring after four hours of practice and wanting to reach home quickly, took a
short cut.
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by rohu27 » Tue Feb 22, 2011 7:57 am
thanks. OA is B
pesfunk wrote:OA is B.

https://gmatclub.com/forum/the-football- ... 08944.html
rohu27 wrote:The football team, tired after four hours of practice and wanted to reach home quickly, took a short cut.

A. tired after four hours of practice and wanted to reach home quickly, took a
short cut.
B. tired after four hours of practice and wanting to reach home quickly,
took a short cut.
C. tired after four hours of practice and because they wanted to reach home
quickly, took a short cut.
D. tired after four hours of practice and wanting to reach home quickly, will take
a short cut.
E. tiring after four hours of practice and wanting to reach home quickly, took a
short cut.
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by arpita@gurome » Tue Feb 22, 2011 9:24 am
This is a modifier/parallel construction question. The main clause is "The football team took a short cut". The modifier "tired after four hours of practice and wanted to reach home quickly" modifies "the football team". The modier has two components, both of which must be parallel and are not: "tired after four hours of practice" is an adjectival phrase whereas "wanted to reach home quickly" is a verb phrase. The latter part must be modified to "wanting to reach home quickly". Choice B does that correctly.

Choice C breaks up the parallel structure even more. Choice D incorrectly changes the tense of the main clause verb to "will take". Choice E changes the first component of the modifier from the correct "tired..." to the incorrect form "tiring..." None of these choices is correct.

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by aspirant2011 » Wed Feb 23, 2011 1:08 am
moreover last part of the sentence states that "took the shortcut" which seems as if a reson for something...............option B correctly uses "wanting to reach home" points to a reason...............therefore option B is right.............
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by Black Knight » Fri Feb 25, 2011 10:21 am
arpita@gurome wrote:This is a modifier/parallel construction question. The main clause is "The football team took a short cut". The modifier "tired after four hours of practice and wanted to reach home quickly" modifies "the football team". The modier has two components, both of which must be parallel and are not: "tired after four hours of practice" is an adjectival phrase whereas "wanted to reach home quickly" is a verb phrase. The latter part must be modified to "wanting to reach home quickly". Choice B does that correctly.

Choice C breaks up the parallel structure even more. Choice D incorrectly changes the tense of the main clause verb to "will take". Choice E changes the first component of the modifier from the correct "tired..." to the incorrect form "tiring..." None of these choices is correct.

Hope that helps. :)
Thanks,Aprita.That explanation was helpful. Can you please explain a little more in detail how exactly do ajectival prhases different from verb prhases ? I research more about them on the internet but found the answers to be very complex.
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by arpita@gurome » Mon Feb 28, 2011 11:49 pm
Adjective Phrases are phrase that act like adjectives. Consider, for example, the following sentence.

"BTG, a forum I often refer to for my GMAT queries, is an excellent forum."

Here the underlined part of the sentence is an adjective phrase because it describes the noun BTG. Similarly an adjective clauses also does the work of an adjective. For example, in the sentence,

"BTG, which is an excellent forum for GMAT queries, is something that I often refer to.

the underlined portion is the adjective clause.

Verb phrases, in a similar fashion, are phrases that act as verbs. These are made up of the main verb and/or auxiliary verb and what is called a "particle". Rather than make this more technical and confusing, it is sufficient to understand that verb phrases act like verbs. In the example, we discussed earlier in this chain, "tired..." acted as an adjective modifying the foootball team, whereas "wanted..." acted as a verb, suggesting an action. Bottom line here is that both phrases must serve the same role to make them parallel.
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by Black Knight » Wed Mar 02, 2011 3:59 am
Thanks a lot,Arpita for the detailed reply. Appreciate that!
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by vikram4689 » Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:41 pm
Arpita,

Both tired and wanted seem verb-ed modifier to me. How did you get to differentiate b/w them

Also, Is verb-ing modifier is an adjective modifier
and verb-ed modifier is a verb modifier
arpita@gurome wrote:Adjective Phrases are phrase that act like adjectives. Consider, for example, the following sentence.

"BTG, a forum I often refer to for my GMAT queries, is an excellent forum."

Here the underlined part of the sentence is an adjective phrase because it describes the noun BTG. Similarly an adjective clauses also does the work of an adjective. For example, in the sentence,

"BTG, which is an excellent forum for GMAT queries, is something that I often refer to.

the underlined portion is the adjective clause.

Verb phrases, in a similar fashion, are phrases that act as verbs. These are made up of the main verb and/or auxiliary verb and what is called a "particle". Rather than make this more technical and confusing, it is sufficient to understand that verb phrases act like verbs. In the example, we discussed earlier in this chain, "tired..." acted as an adjective modifying the foootball team, whereas "wanted..." acted as a verb, suggesting an action. Bottom line here is that both phrases must serve the same role to make them parallel.
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