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by prachich1987 » Sat Feb 05, 2011 11:32 am

One study found that although government policy and the industrial sector in which a company operates can influence its productivity and financial strength, management decisions have at least as great an impact on a company's performance.

A) management decisions have at least as great an impact
B) decisions by management have a great impact
C) manager decisions impact greatly
D) decisions by a company's management impact greatly
E) what a company's management decides has a greater impact

Source :MGMAT CAT
OA :after some discussion

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by maihuna » Sat Feb 05, 2011 11:47 am

IMO A:

Comparing with Idiom : ALthough X Y, whatever comes after comma should be parallel to government policy,

although gov policy & .. can influence tis productivity .. , management decisions have at least as grt an impact on ..

we need a noun to preposition on, starting at the end of underline part. SO C and D out, as they end up in greatly not an noun.

E is definetly have several issues

SO We hv to choose between A and B : decisions by mgmt in B is not parallel to gov policy so choose A.

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by Night reader » Sat Feb 05, 2011 11:48 am

prachich1987 wrote:One study found that although government policy and the industrial sector in which a company operates can influence its productivity and financial strength, management decisions have at least as great an impact on a company's performance.

A) management decisions have at least as great an impact
B) decisions by management have a great impact
C) manager decisions impact greatly
D) decisions by a company's management impact greatly
E) what a company's management decides has a greater impact

Source :MGMAT CAT
OA :after some discussion

I go with B, because of presence of the logical connectors in the sentence. A) is apparently misusing /at least -as great/; C) manager decisions - unnecessarily specifies management rank /manager/; D) redundant occurrence of /company/; E) improper logical connector /what/

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by Night reader » Sat Feb 05, 2011 11:52 am

possibly A-parallelism issue involved, but A is so awkward to the ear.

maihuna wrote:IMO A:

Comparing with Idiom : ALthough X Y, whatever comes after comma should be parallel to government policy,

although gov policy & .. can influence tis productivity .. , management decisions have at least as grt an impact on ..

we need a noun to preposition on, starting at the end of underline part. SO C and D out, as they end up in greatly not an noun.

E is definetly have several issues

SO We hv to choose between A and B : decisions by mgmt in B is not parallel to gov policy so choose A.

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by jaxis » Sat Feb 05, 2011 12:10 pm

A IMO.

all others are not parallel and they change the intended meaning too.

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by RACHVIK » Sat Feb 05, 2011 2:29 pm

IMO B.

Option A looks close but is missing comparison. I am not very sure if 'as' can be avoided. What follows 'great' is a noun and not a verb??

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by cnseetharaman » Sun Feb 06, 2011 3:36 am

Why not E??
Although Govt policy and ... can influence its productivity and ..., management decisions have at least AS GREAT AN impact (AS)

The (AS) is missing in A,B,C & D. E seems to give a clear message.

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by Jim@Grockit » Mon Feb 07, 2011 8:24 am

This is an interesting one; all of the answer choices could pass for correct in spoken English. Issues include:

1) modifying nouns with other nouns: "management decisions" and "manager decisions". The "rule" is that you don't modify nouns with nouns, but rather use adjectives, but a large (and growing) number of nouns in English will regularly form compound nouns. Of the two in the question, "management" is more common than "manager".

2) "great" vs. "greatly": all are used correctly, because "impact" can be a noun or a verb, with or without the preposition "on."

3) "at least as great as" vs. "great" vs. "greater": A difference in meaning; "at least as [adjective]" is "> or =", and none of the others have that.

Personally, I'd have chosen A because it doesn't have errors and all the others change the meaning. It DOES leave out "as [the others] do" but that kind of ellipsis is common.

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by aspirant2011 » Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:42 am

i would go for B.................wats the OA?

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by prachich1987 » Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:13 am

Jim@Grockit wrote:
3) "at least as great as" vs. "great" vs. "greater": A difference in meaning; "at least as [adjective]" is "> or =", and none of the others have that.

Personally, I'd have chosen A because it doesn't have errors and all the others change the meaning. It DOES leave out "as [the others] do" but that kind of ellipsis is common.

Thanks Gim for the above post
The OA is A
But I remember in many OG problems, we reject the options,which doesn't contain the second AS.
How to decide whether eliminating second AS is ok or not?

Thanks!
Prachi

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by Jim@Grockit » Sun Feb 13, 2011 8:02 pm

Unfortunately there is no hard rule for when to leave off the end of a comparison; it's never wrong to state it, so the strategy is to look for other errors and worry about that last. When in doubt, go with the most clear answer.

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