privat names in sc

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tanviet: Legendary Member; Posts: 1404; Joined: Tue May 20, 2008 6:55 pmFollowed by: 2 members; Thanked: 18 times

by tanviet » Tue Mar 19, 2013 2:32 am

I took real gmat last time.
I met the fisrt sc question which contains 3 private names. These private names make me unable to understand the intended meaning and so fail in this question.

gmat played a tricky game here by including private names.

if I meet this kind of question, which contains the private name, I may fail again.

how to counter this situation? pls help.

do you understand the intended meaning when there are many private names in it.?

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aditya8062: Legendary Member; Posts: 774; Joined: Mon Jan 23, 2012 4:32 amFollowed by: 14 members; Thanked: 46 times

by aditya8062 » Tue Mar 19, 2013 3:39 am

try reconstruct that sentence,not necessarily grammatically correct , so as we can understand what u r talking

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Brian@VeritasPrep: GMAT Instructor; Posts: 1031; Joined: Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:23 pmFollowed by: 255 members; Location: Malibu, CA; Thanked: 716 times; GMAT Score:750

by Brian@VeritasPrep » Tue Mar 19, 2013 8:53 am

Hey duongthang - are you talking about proper nouns, like people's names? For example:

In her 1851 magazine series, which would later become the epic Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe's mission was to portray the hardships of slavery.

Are the nouns "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and "Harriet Beecher Stowe" the kinds of things you're talking about? If so, there's a pretty nice method for cutting them down - just give them a variable:

In her series, which would become the epic T, S's mission was...

(and then in this case you should see that "in her series" doesn't properly modify "S's mission" since the mission isn't a person)

So if that's what you're talking about, proper nouns (people, places, titles), it's good strategy to heavily abbreviate them or just turn them into variables.

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