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by geemat » Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:05 am
His campaign for sanitary conditions in operating rooms finally successful, Sir Joseph Lister lent his name to the company that developed Listerine, the first antibacterial liquid.


His campaign for sanitary conditions in operating rooms finally successful

Since his campaign for sanitary conditions in operating rooms had been eventually successful

Because of the eventual success of his campaigning for sanitary conditions in operating rooms

His campaign for sanitary conditions in operating rooms being eventually successful

Campaigning, eventually successfully, for conditions to be sanitary in operating rooms

OA is A
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by heshamelaziry » Sat Nov 21, 2009 5:24 pm
Really confusing. I see E only to be the correct answer. E is the only option that maintains parallelism between "campaigning" and "sir lister" and has clear reference and concise. Is this form 1000 Sc by any chance ?
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by kartik1979 » Sat Nov 21, 2009 7:59 pm
hmmm

agree that sentence is not that staright forward but you can crack it within 40 secs

your most probabale options

A,B,C


I normally disregard senetnce where being is used and only check it if other options dont make sense -D

E - Disregard it ,very awkward

in our choices, ab,c

b - you don require had been, a simple past tense would do in said case , hence ignore B

between a and c`

I chose a as A is written concisely with proper grammer

also C could have been better if instead of caimpaigning for , it would have used caimpaign for
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by kartik1979 » Sat Nov 21, 2009 8:07 pm
in E , the concept of parallsim doesnt arise at all
you dont need to parallel campaigning with sir lsiter
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by heshamelaziry » Sat Nov 21, 2009 8:33 pm
kartik1979 wrote:in E , the concept of parallsim doesnt arise at all
you dont need to parallel campaigning with sir lsiter

E looks awkward but many sentences I have seen were correct with similar construcetion. I will try an example to illustrate:

Traveling through the wilderness of north east India, the first Buddha was searching for enlightenment.

Is this Incorrect ?

The only difference between my example and the question is that the question has modifiers betweem the subject and the verb.
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by kartik1979 » Sat Nov 21, 2009 8:47 pm
ur senetnce is correct

but if you have two gramticaly right sentences

like

his campaign for sanitory conditions

and
campaigning for conditions to be santitary

which one is short and precise

also E has also other problems, meaning changes a lilttle , i cannot explain totally and also the( evenetually succesful) adds to general awkwardness of senetnce



traveling across the jungles Modifies ( budha) is perfect
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by heshamelaziry » Sat Nov 21, 2009 9:59 pm
Still, I can't make sense of A as the OA even when I try my ear. If the sentence had read " with his campaign .....", I could use my ear and make a contender, but the way it is NO.

Really wish everyone post the source of his or her question, because those 1000 SC are common and I stopped looking at them, because more time than not they are full of wrong questions.
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by geemat » Sat Nov 21, 2009 10:26 pm
This question is from princeton FLT. BTW isn't A has a run on. Also the causal relationship is not evident in A.
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by capnx » Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:31 pm
heshamelaziry wrote:Still, I can't make sense of A as the OA even when I try my ear. If the sentence had read " with his campaign .....", I could use my ear and make a contender, but the way it is NO.

Really wish everyone post the source of his or her question, because those 1000 SC are common and I stopped looking at them, because more time than not they are full of wrong questions.
"with" is omitted. That's why it sounds awkward.
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