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by ketkoag » Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:26 am
The best way for an IT professional to protect data is to periodically back it in a preformatted
disc.
A. to periodically back it in a pre-formatted disc
B. if it is quickly backed in a pre-formatted disc
C. for it to be backed periodically in a pre-formatted disc
D. if the data is periodically backed in a pre-formatted disc
E. to have them periodically backed in a pre-formatted disc
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by kc_raj » Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:39 am
IMO A,

B, D unnecessary use of if,
C, passive
E, them is for plural not for singular data
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by niraj_a » Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:46 am
A for me too.

C came pretty close.
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by ketkoag » Thu Aug 13, 2009 10:58 am
I also selected A but OA is E..
OE says that singular pronoun "it" can not refer to "Data"
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Re: Data

by sk8ternite » Thu Aug 13, 2009 4:45 pm
ketkoag wrote:The best way for an IT professional to protect data is to periodically back it in a preformatted
disc.
A. to periodically back it in a pre-formatted disc
B. if it is quickly backed in a pre-formatted disc
C. for it to be backed periodically in a pre-formatted disc
D. if the data is periodically backed in a pre-formatted disc
E. to have them periodically backed in a pre-formatted disc
how can them refer to data? there is no plural antecedent. I think the answer should be A
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Re: Data

by umaa » Thu Aug 13, 2009 6:40 pm
ketkoag wrote:The best way for an IT professional to protect data is to periodically back it in a preformatted
disc.
A. to periodically back it in a pre-formatted disc
B. if it is quickly backed in a pre-formatted disc
C. for it to be backed periodically in a pre-formatted disc
D. if the data is periodically backed in a pre-formatted disc
E. to have them periodically backed in a pre-formatted disc
Few words like DATA, PEOPLE etc. are plural words. So, for those words we should use plural referrals.

A,B and C are out.

D is redundant.

E uses THEM correctly to refer DATA.
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by ankit1383 » Sat Aug 15, 2009 5:00 pm
Data is plural form of DATUM(which is rarely used today)
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by madhur_ahuja » Sat Aug 15, 2009 6:47 pm
ankit1383 wrote:Data is plural form of DATUM(which is rarely used today)
That was useful .. Thanks
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