The success of the program to eradicate smallpox has stimulated experts to pursue what they had not previously considered possible - better control, if not eradication, of the other infections such as measles and yaws.
1. what they had not previously considered possible - better control, if not eradication, of the other infections such as
2. what they had not previously considered possible - better control, if not eradication, of the other infections like
3. something they had not previously considered possible - better control, if not eradication, of such infections as
4. something had not considered a previous possibility- better control, and perhaps eradication, of other infections such as
5. the possibility of what they had not previously considered - better control and possibly eradication of infections like
The Splits:
Such as Vs Like:
Such as:
It is used to introduce example.
Like:
It is used to mean similarity.
-> This rule eliminates B and E.
Consider the skeleton of the sentence:
The success has stimulated experts to pursue what they had not previously considered possible - better control, if not eradication, of the other infections such as measles and yaws.
Fit the option D as follows:
The success has stimulated experts to pursue X had not considered. -Fine.
We need "X + Subject + verb".
We can write the sentence as follows.
The success has stimulated experts to pursue X they had not considered. -Fine.
Another problem with D is "the previous possibility". What does it mean? It means that "X was a previous possibility, and it has no more possibility". It is not the intended meaning of the sentence.
So, D is eliminated.
We are between A and C.
The split is between "the other infections Vs Infections":
A. what they had not previously considered possible - better control, if not eradication, of the other infections such as
In this option, we are giving examples of other infections by using such as, so it means that there could be more infections than just measles and yaws that were earlier considered not possible.
C. something they had not previously considered possible - better control, if not eradication, of such infections as..
=> This option limits the possibility to only measles and yaws.
Two students have requested me to say something about the use of "WHAT"
I have analyzed that "what"has been used correctly in OG and in GMATPREP.
I am giving a list of them.
The following examples are from GMATPEP:
The British sociologist and activist Barbara Wootton once noted as a humorous example of income maldistribution that the elephant that gave rides to children at the Whipsnade Zoo was earning annually exactly what she then earned as director of adult education for London.
What scientists know about dinosaur brains comes from studies of the cranium, the bony house of the brain located in the back of the skull.
The single-family house constructed by the Yana, a Native American people who lived in what is now northern California, was conical in shape, its framework of poles overlaid with slabs of bark, either cedar or pine, and banked with dirt to a height of three to four feet.
Those skeptical of the extent of global warming argue that short-term temperature data are an inadequate means of predicting long-term trends and point out that the scientific community remains divided over whether significant warming will occur and what impact it would have.
Researchers in Germany have unearthed 400,000-year-old wooden spears from what appears to be an ancient lakeshore hunting ground, stunning evidence that human ancestors systematically hunted big game much earlier than believed.
The electronics company has unveiled what it claims is the world's smallest network digital camcorder, which is as long as a handheld computer and weighs less than 11 ounces.
Scientists have found new evidence that people initially register emotions such as sadness or anger in much the same way as they experience heartburn--by monitoring what's going on within their bodies.
A leading figure in the Scottish enlightenment, Adam Smith wrote two major books that are to democratic capitalism what Marx's Das Kapital is to socialism.
The period when the great painted caves at Lascaux and Altamira were occupied by Upper Paleolithic peoples has been established by carbon dating, but what is much more difficult to determine is the use to which primitive peoples put the caves, the reason for their decoration, and the meaning of the magnificently depicted animals.
On August 13, 1868, the warship U. S. S. Wateree, anchored in the harbor of Arica, off the coast of what is now northern Chile, rode on the crest of a tsunami (seismic sea wave) and came to rest in the Atacama Desert, some three miles up the coast and almost two miles inland from its initial anchorage.]
The first trenches cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence that centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East arose simultaneously with but independently of the more celebrated city-states of southern Mesopotamia, in what is now southern Iraq.
The following examples are from Official Guides:
1� The period when the great painted caves at Lascaux and Altamira were occupied by Upper Paleolithic people has been established by carbon-14 dating, but what is much more difficult to determine is the reason for their decoration, the use to which primitive people put the caves, and the meaning of the magnificently depicted animals.
2� Carnivorous mammals can endure what would otherwise be lethal levels of body heat because they have a heat-exchange network that keeps the brain from getting too hot.
3� Scientists have recently discovered what could be the largest and oldest living organism on Earth, a giant fungus that is an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and root like tentacles spawned by a single fertilized spore some 10,000 years ago and extending for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest.
4� His studies of ice-polished rocks in his Alpine homeland, far outside the range of present-day glaciers, led Louis Agassiz in 1837 to propose the concept of an age in which great ice sheets existed in what are now temperate areas.
Please analyze the how "what" has been used in the these correct sentences.
Thanks.
