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by crazy4gmat » Sat Dec 06, 2008 10:46 pm
Until quite recently, American presidents lived in a world in which the public and private realms of their lives were largely separate, and the press cooperated in maintaining the distinction, and Americans judged national leaders without receiving, or expecting, intimate information about them.
(A) and the press cooperated in maintaining the distinction, and
(B) where the press cooperated in maintaining the distinction, and where
(C) for the press cooperated to maintain the distinction and
(D) the press cooperated to maintain the distinction, for
(E) in which the press cooperated in maintaining the distinction, and in which
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by mudit_verma » Sun Dec 07, 2008 5:35 am
IMO A

What is OA?
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by niraj_a » Sun Dec 07, 2008 5:54 am
E or C, and I choose E.

gotta main the parallelism here.
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by vivek.kapoor83 » Sun Dec 07, 2008 6:47 am
imo c
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by karmayogi » Sun Dec 07, 2008 8:15 am
IMO A.

A) Until quite recently, X, and Y, and Z. Where, X, Y and Z are independent clauses connected by coordinating conjunctions.
B) Use of where is wrong. Not sure what where is referring to.
C) for is used as because. But press was not solely responsible for the distinction. Press just cooperated in maintaining the distinction. Also, and is wrong.
D) Again, wrong use of for.
E) in which what is it referring to. Again, looks like, this option also has the same problem as C.
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by sudhir3127 » Sun Dec 07, 2008 8:27 am
crazy4gmat wrote:Until quite recently, American presidents lived in a world in which the public and private realms of their lives were largely separate, and the press cooperated in maintaining the distinction, and Americans judged national leaders without receiving, or expecting, intimate information about them.
(A) and the press cooperated in maintaining the distinction, and
(B) where the press cooperated in maintaining the distinction, and where
(C) for the press cooperated to maintain the distinction and
(D) the press cooperated to maintain the distinction, for
(E) in which the press cooperated in maintaining the distinction, and in which
i go with E . Purely parallelism .. " in which"
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by niraj_a » Sun Dec 07, 2008 8:35 am
OA is indeed E.

@karmayogi,

i eliminated C for precisely the meaning reason buddy. i like your point for A though. can this q have 2 OAs? :wink:
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by karmayogi » Sun Dec 07, 2008 8:58 am
niraj_a wrote:OA is indeed E.

@karmayogi,

i eliminated C for precisely the meaning reason buddy. i like your point for A though. can this q have 2 OAs? :wink:
Phew! totally went in a wrong direction - missed in which in first clause completely.
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by ronniecoleman » Mon Dec 08, 2008 4:22 am
IMO A

This question not only checking parallelism but also logic..



how president is keeping lives separate and the media is helping in maintaing that distinction...

The last clause... " in which " is understood...

I guess the we require expert inputs into this question.....

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by 4meonly » Wed Dec 10, 2008 4:04 am
Until quite recently, American presidents lived in a world in which the public and private realms of their lives were largely separate, and the press cooperated in maintaining the distinction, and Americans judged national leaders without receiving, or expecting, intimate information about them.

(A) and the press cooperated in maintaining the distinction, and
(B) where the press cooperated in maintaining the distinction, and where
(C) for the press cooperated to maintain the distinction and
(D) the press cooperated to maintain the distinction, for
(E) in which the press cooperated in maintaining the distinction, and in which
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by crazy4gmat » Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:01 am
OA is E
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by maihuna » Tue Dec 29, 2009 8:09 am
Yes OA E is justified, stunned to see so many A's here.

: There are three things happening here: American presidents lived in word...in...press co-operated ...and Americans judged ...so all the three are in past and needless to say they be in parallel....if that is the case then first and in underlined portion is wrong.

The world in which...where...and where is not parallel in B.

For in C seems to give some reason, but one the for and other the infinitive make me suseptive about this option. D si simply not parallel, E maintaines the parallelism, world in which...in which...and in which...I will opt E.
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