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by sameerballani » Fri May 27, 2011 3:39 am
The ground swell of public opinion made it inevitable that the senate would approve the president's energy proposal
A. it inevitable that the senate would approve
b. it inevitable that the senate had approved
C. it inevitable of the senate to approve
D. inevitable the approval of the senate of
E. approval of the senate inevitable of

[spoiler]OA:A[/spoiler]
Can any1 please explain how to eliminate choices.
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by aspirant2011 » Fri May 27, 2011 9:44 am
I am confused with C option :-(
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by clock60 » Fri May 27, 2011 10:19 am
i also vote for C and sad that answer is A, i thought that it is second best answer
B)had approved is wrong usage, the usage of past perfect implies that senate approved proposals before the ground swell, but the meaning of the sentence says that first it was swell and second approve
C) i don`t see any mistakes, perhaps construction inevitable that is better than inevitable to, may be idiom usage
D)i am not too sure but of the president`s looks like double posessive
we need: proposal of president, or president`s proposal. but we can`t use both of and ` posessive
E) the same as in D
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by vineeshp » Fri May 27, 2011 7:34 pm
"inevitable of the senate to approve" is wrong and unidiomatic.
Vineesh,
Just telling you what I know and think. I am not the expert. :)
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by sameerballani » Sat May 28, 2011 1:37 am
Even i chose option C
Correct Answer is option A. Source: Kaplan

The explanation given in the book was something like that the event that is INEVITABLE needs to be in future, so we need to go with option A using the word WOULD

While attempting, I was left with option A and Option C. Probably, the reason i chose option C was because of Placeholder It concept. But re-reading this now, even i feel inevitable of the senate is wrong. We can mark some action as inevitable not any person.
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by sivaelectric » Sat May 28, 2011 5:16 am
Thanks Sameerballani for the explanation
If I am wrong correct me :), If my post helped let me know by clicking the Thanks button ;).

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