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by madhujeya » Wed Jul 06, 2011 8:40 pm
Many environmentalists believe that the widespread planting of trees, along with the conservation of existing forests, would be one of the surest, easiest, and least expensive ways to begin to halt or even to reverse the buildup of carbon dioxide in the air
(A) one of the surest, easiest, and least expensive ways to begin to halt or even to reverse
(B) one of the most sure, easy, and least expensive ways to begin a halt or even reverse
(C) one of the surest, easiest, and least expensive ways that would begin halting or even reversing
(D) a most sure, easy, and inexpensive way beginning the halting and even reversing of
(E) the most sure, easiest, and inexpensive way that would begin halting or even reversing
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by vikram4689 » Wed Jul 06, 2011 8:58 pm
IMO A
(A) one of the surest, easiest, and least expensive ways to begin to halt or even to reverse CORRECT
(B) one of the most sure, easy, and least expensive ways to begin a halt or even reverse
(C) one of the surest, easiest, and least expensive ways that would begin halting or even reversing - to form is better than verb-ing form
(D) a most sure, easy, and inexpensive way beginning the halting and even reversing of
(E) the most sure, easiest, and inexpensive way that would begin halting or even reversing
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by madhujeya » Wed Jul 06, 2011 9:12 pm
What does the 'ways' in the sentence refer too?? Does it refer to 'the widespread planting of trees, along with the conservation of existing forests' ???
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by vikram4689 » Wed Jul 06, 2011 9:17 pm
one of the ways (singular) refer to the widespread planting of trees,along with the conservation of existing forests(singular)

You might be confused b/w plural ways and singular subject ;)
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by Frankenstein » Wed Jul 06, 2011 9:30 pm
vikram4689 wrote:IMO A
(A) one of the surest, easiest, and least expensive ways to begin to halt or even to reverse CORRECT
(B) one of the most sure, easy, and least expensive ways to begin a halt or even reverse
(C) one of the surest, easiest, and least expensive ways that would begin halting or even reversing - to form is better than verb-ing form
(D) a most sure, easy, and inexpensive way beginning the halting and even reversing of
(E) the most sure, easiest, and inexpensive way that would begin halting or even reversing
Hi,
Is 'to begin to halt' okay? That really sounds awkward.
@madhujeya : What is the source of this question? I don't think official questions use this kind of usage in official answers.
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by vikram4689 » Wed Jul 06, 2011 10:30 pm
Frankenstein wrote: Hi,
Is 'to begin to halt' okay? That really sounds awkward. - its a bit unknown form but others have bigger problem
@madhujeya : What is the source of this question? I don't think official questions use this kind of usage in official answers. - recently i have seen such awkward question on gmat prep that even ron has commented "this is too unlike gmat, is this an official problem". Since then i stopped thinking about awkwardness as anything can come on gmat.
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by Frankenstein » Wed Jul 06, 2011 11:06 pm
Hi,
So, do you mean to say this is from an official source? I know that if it is an Official question and the OA is A, we have to abide by it. Otherwise, I am not convinced why C has bigger problem and how we prefer one to the other.
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by vikram4689 » Wed Jul 06, 2011 11:34 pm
Frankenstein wrote:Hi,
So, do you mean to say this is from an official source? I know that if it is an Official question and the OA is A, we have to abide by it. Otherwise, I am not convinced why C has bigger problem and how we prefer one to the other.
No i dont know the source of this ques, i was just mentioning about the ques. i saw in gmat prep. May be the poster can give us the source and oa.
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by sandy217 » Thu Jul 07, 2011 1:57 am
vikram4689 wrote:IMO A
(A) one of the surest, easiest, and least expensive ways to begin to halt or even to reverse CORRECT
(B) one of the most sure, easy, and least expensive ways to begin a halt or even reverse
(C) one of the surest, easiest, and least expensive ways that would begin halting or even reversing - to form is better than verb-ing form
(D) a most sure, easy, and inexpensive way beginning the halting and even reversing of
(E) the most sure, easiest, and inexpensive way that would begin halting or even reversing
Most Sure Most easy are wordy when compared to Surest,Easiest ..... Is this what your Red marking indicate? or any other grammatical reason?
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by sandy217 » Thu Jul 07, 2011 2:01 am
And most might modify complete list !! Hence Most least also incorrect (?)
Can anyone confirm?
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by vikram4689 » Thu Jul 07, 2011 2:51 am
correct !!!!
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by mirantdon » Thu Jul 07, 2011 3:58 am
+1 for A. detailed explanations anyon ?
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by rveeraga » Thu Jul 07, 2011 3:35 pm
It looks like this question is from the 1000 SC document, one of the bad resources to use.

It simply tests the parallelism with the superlative forms of those 3 adjectives. In the answer choice C, that would begin is not good.

The best option is A.
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by madhujeya » Mon Jul 11, 2011 12:28 am
The source is 1000SC.
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by justin410 » Mon Jul 11, 2011 2:29 am
Frankenstein wrote:
vikram4689 wrote:IMO A
(A) one of the surest, easiest, and least expensive ways to begin to halt or even to reverse CORRECT
(B) one of the most sure, easy, and least expensive ways to begin a halt or even reverse
(C) one of the surest, easiest, and least expensive ways that would begin halting or even reversing - to form is better than verb-ing form
(D) a most sure, easy, and inexpensive way beginning the halting and even reversing of
(E) the most sure, easiest, and inexpensive way that would begin halting or even reversing
Hi,
Is 'to begin to halt' okay? That really sounds awkward.
@madhujeya : What is the source of this question? I don't think official questions use this kind of usage in official answers.
Hi, the idiom is: the way to do something. the source is 1000SC
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