I'm working through the MGMAT SC study guide and took a mid chapter quiz, the answer to question 3 is not very clear to me.
The sentence to be corrected is
"The proliferation of computer games designed to involve many players at once were first developed before the widespread availability of high-speed internet connections"
The solution says "the proliferation...were first developed is illogical" and should be the "computer games were developed"
It doesn't state whether I need to get rid of the word proliferation or what the complete corrected sentence should be.
From my point of view, the word first is a redundant time reference with before. Before seems to hold the sentence together so I just said to get rid of "first" and it would be correct.
But the solution statements makes it sound like it should be "Computer games were developed before the widespread availability of the high-speed internet connections"
However, this puzzles me because this new sentence has changed the meaning of the original sentence (it's excluding the many players)
Any help is appreciated...
The sentence to be corrected is
"The proliferation of computer games designed to involve many players at once were first developed before the widespread availability of high-speed internet connections"
The solution says "the proliferation...were first developed is illogical" and should be the "computer games were developed"
It doesn't state whether I need to get rid of the word proliferation or what the complete corrected sentence should be.
From my point of view, the word first is a redundant time reference with before. Before seems to hold the sentence together so I just said to get rid of "first" and it would be correct.
But the solution statements makes it sound like it should be "Computer games were developed before the widespread availability of the high-speed internet connections"
However, this puzzles me because this new sentence has changed the meaning of the original sentence (it's excluding the many players)
Any help is appreciated...
