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by krishnasty » Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:04 pm
Although many art patrons can readily differentiate a good debenture from an undesirable one, they are much less expert in distinguishing good paintings and poor ones, authentic art and fakes.

(A) much less expert in distinguishing good paintings and poor ones, authentic art and
(B) far less expert in distinguishing good paintings from poor ones, authentic art from
(C) much less expert when it comes to distinguishing good paintings and poor ones, authentic art from
(D) far less expert in distinguishing good paintings and poor ones, authentic art and
(E) far less the expert when it comes to distinguishing between good painting, poor ones, authentic art, and
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by Ashley@VeritasPrep » Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:11 pm
This is one of those rare and annoying problems that's almost exclusively testing an idiom. The idiom you want here is "distinguishing X FROM Y." It's VERY unusual on the actual GMAT for a Sentence Correction question to hinge exclusively on an idiom -- just for the record!
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by phanideepak » Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:04 pm
Is the OA B ??

(A) much less expert in distinguishing good paintings and poor ones, authentic art and I think in distinguishing should be followed by between
(B) far less expert in distinguishing good paintings from poor ones, authentic art from
(C) much less expert when it comes to distinguishing good paintings and poor ones, authentic art from
parallelism error one of the two idioms distinguish between X and Y or distinguish X from Y should be used.
(D) far less expert in distinguishing good paintings and poor ones, authentic art and Same as first
(E) far less the expert when it comes to distinguishing between good painting, poor ones, authentic art, and Breaks the idiom.
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by abhishek.pati » Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:23 pm
IMO B
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by krishnasty » Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:32 pm
OA: B
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by robosc9 » Wed Sep 14, 2011 4:56 pm
But, isn't there something wrong with the sentence?

Although many art patrons can readily differentiate a good debenture from an undesirable one, they are far less expert in distinguishing good paintings from poor ones, authentic art from fakes

It seems like a run-on sentence. Don't we need a and here?
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by 1947 » Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:00 pm
robosc9 wrote:But, isn't there something wrong with the sentence?

Although many art patrons can readily differentiate a good debenture from an undesirable one, they are far less expert in distinguishing good paintings from poor ones, authentic art from fakes

It seems like a run-on sentence. Don't we need a and here?
thats chorrect there shoulb be AND there
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by GmatKiss » Wed Sep 14, 2011 11:58 pm
krishnasty wrote:Although many art patrons can readily differentiate a good debenture from an undesirable one, they are much less expert in distinguishing good paintings and poor ones, authentic art and fakes.

(A) much less expert in distinguishing good paintings and poor ones, authentic art and
(B) far less expert in distinguishing good paintings from poor ones, authentic art from
(C) much less expert when it comes to distinguishing good paintings and poor ones, authentic art from
(D) far less expert in distinguishing good paintings and poor ones, authentic art and
(E) far less the expert when it comes to distinguishing between good painting, poor ones, authentic art, and
distinguishing X from Y is correct!
IMO:B
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by gunjan1208 » Thu Sep 15, 2011 1:10 am
IMO B.

Point very well raised about and. However, remember the rule to have the best choice not the ideal one.

But conclusively, GMAT would not want to leave these kind of grammatical error for sure. As this might make a competent GMAT student not to opt for this and other possible choice.

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by robosc9 » Thu Sep 15, 2011 6:58 am
gunjan1208 wrote:IMO B.

Point very well raised about and. However, remember the rule to have the best choice not the ideal one.

But conclusively, GMAT would not want to leave these kind of grammatical error for sure. As this might make a competent GMAT student not to opt for this and other possible choice.

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Hmm....guess you are right! Thanks!
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