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by tinashine20 » Thu Nov 29, 2012 8:14 pm
The Australian bush-rugged wilderness exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora-that inspires textile artist Gloria Loughman of Kerang. a town in northern Victoria, endlessly.

A. bush-rugged wilderness exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora-that inspires textile artist Gloria Loughman of Kerang, a town in northern Victoria, endlessly

B. bush is endless inspiration for textile artist Gloria Loughman of Kerang, a town in northern Victoria, with its rugged wilderness exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora

C. bush, a rugged wilderness exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora, endlessly inspires textile artist Gloria Loughman from a town in northern Victoria, Kerang

D. bush, its rugged wilderness, exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora, offers endless inspiration for textile artist Gloria Loughman of Kerang, a town in northern Victoria

E. bush-rugged wilderness exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora-offers endless inspiration to textile artist Gloria Loughman of Kerang, a town in northern Victoria
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by theachiever » Thu Nov 29, 2012 9:42 pm
I would go with C
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by Sapana » Fri Jan 11, 2013 11:13 pm
I think Bush-rugged is adjective for wilderness. Therefore, A and E is good.. In A, endlessly places at the end of the sentence is wierd therefore I think E is the better option. Any alternate opinion guys?

tinashine20 wrote:The Australian bush-rugged wilderness exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora-that inspires textile artist Gloria Loughman of Kerang. a town in northern Victoria, endlessly.

A. bush-rugged wilderness exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora-that inspires textile artist Gloria Loughman of Kerang, a town in northern Victoria, endlessly

B. bush is endless inspiration for textile artist Gloria Loughman of Kerang, a town in northern Victoria, with its rugged wilderness exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora

C. bush, a rugged wilderness exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora, endlessly inspires textile artist Gloria Loughman from a town in northern Victoria, Kerang

D. bush, its rugged wilderness, exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora, offers endless inspiration for textile artist Gloria Loughman of Kerang, a town in northern Victoria

E. bush-rugged wilderness exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora-offers endless inspiration to textile artist Gloria Loughman of Kerang, a town in northern Victoria
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by The Iceman » Sat Jan 12, 2013 2:26 am
Sapana wrote:I think Bush-rugged is adjective for wilderness. Therefore, A and E is good.. In A, endlessly places at the end of the sentence is wierd therefore I think E is the better option. Any alternate opinion guys?
In E "rugged wilderness exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora" is put between hyphens as extra information for the Australian bush. This is one of the functions of hyphen. If you remove it from the sentence, the remaining part makes perfect sense.

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A. is not even a sentence, rather a fragment.

B. has the modifier of Aussie Bush placed far away.

C. Australian bush, a rugged wilderness exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora, endlessly inspires textile artist Gloria Loughman from a town in northern Victoria, Kerangfrom Kerang, a town in northern Victoria is direct and clear way of writting.

D. bush, its rugged wilderness, exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora, offers endless inspiration for textile artist Gloria Loughman of Kerang, a town in northern Victoria
inspiration to is needed to convey the intended meaning.

Hence, E skims out to be the butter of this process :-)
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by buzzdeepak » Sat Jan 12, 2013 8:42 am
Original sentence: The Australian bush-rugged wilderness exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora-that inspires textile artist Gloria Loughman of Kerang, a town in northern Victoria, endlessly.

To start with, ignore the hyphenated words for now. The sentence then becomes:
The Australian bush that inspires textile artist Gloria Loughman of Kerang, a town in northern Victoria, endlessly: This is a fragment.

Choice e fixes this fragment.

The Australian bush offers endless inspiration to textile artist Gloria Loughman of Kerang, a town in northern Victoria

Note: Most of the times, we don't have to think about hyphenated part in a sentence and don't have to dissect it - just leave it as it is. Can the experts please confirm this?
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by e-GMAT » Sat Jan 12, 2013 10:14 am
@buzzdeepak, you are correct about -
Most of the times, we don't have to think about hyphenated part in a sentence and don't have to dissect it

But one thing to keep in mind is that the hyphenated part should be placed appropriately and should function as intended. For example, let's consider this variation of the sentence:

The Australians bush offers endless inspiration to textile artist Gloria Loughman of Kerang - rugged wilderness exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora - a town in northern Victoria .

In the sentence above, the hyphenated portion is not intended to modify "Kerang" and hence this sentence is incorrect. So you may ignore the hyphenated portion once you have checked its purpose and made sure that its placed appropriately.

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by BTG14 » Wed Jan 16, 2013 6:59 am
Is C wrong because of endlessly(adverb) which is awkward here. Please somebody validate my approach.

C. bush, a rugged wilderness exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora, endlessly inspires textile artist Gloria Loughman from a town in northern Victoria, Kerang
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by hutch27 » Wed Jan 16, 2013 7:49 am
how does this make any sense... "that inspires textile artist Gloria Loughman of Kerang. a town in northern Victoria." Doesn't this imply that gloria loughman is a town?
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by ceilidh.erickson » Wed Jan 16, 2013 7:50 am
I believe the problem is that this sentence was not properly transcribed. What appear to be hyphens "bush-rugged wilderness" should in fact be m-dashes. If we were to interpret these as hyphens, all 5 answer choices would have meaning issues. (Also, the term "bush-rugged" seems far too vague and poetic for the GMAT!)

M-dashes function in almost the same way as parentheses; they separate non-essential modifiers from the rest of the sentence: "The Australian bush - rugged wilderness exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora - that inspires..."

If we turn all hyphens into m-dashes....
The Australian bush - rugged wilderness exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora - that inspires textile artist Gloria Loughman of Kerang, a town in northern Victoria, endlessly.

A. bush - rugged wilderness exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora - that inspires textile artist Gloria Loughman of Kerang, a town in northern Victoria, endlessly

B. bush is endless inspiration for textile artist Gloria Loughman of Kerang, a town in northern Victoria, with its rugged wilderness exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora

C. bush, a rugged wilderness exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora, endlessly inspires textile artist Gloria Loughman from a town in northern Victoria, Kerang

D. bush, its rugged wilderness, exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora, offers endless inspiration for textile artist Gloria Loughman of Kerang, a town in northern Victoria

E. bush - rugged wilderness exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora - offers endless inspiration to textile artist Gloria Loughman of Kerang, a town in northern Victoria
... we can see that it makes much more sense.

A. is missing a verb - it's a sentence fragment

B. modifier placement is awkward/ambiguous

C. the modifier "from a town..." is ambiguous. It could imply that the bush is inspiring Gloria from a town.

D. "its rugged wilderness" is an inappropriate modifier

E. CORRECT! Once we've turned "rugged wilderness" into a modifier, this makes perfect sense.

So please, transcribe questions carefully - it could change the meaning!
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by sana.noor » Wed Jan 16, 2013 8:31 am
E should be the answer because it solves the issue of misplaced adverb and it is clear in meaning. "endless inspiration" instead of "that inspire"
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by e-GMAT » Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:07 am
Milan wrote:Is C wrong because of endlessly(adverb) which is awkward here. Please somebody validate my approach.

C. bush, a rugged wilderness exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora, endlessly inspires textile artist Gloria Loughman from a town in northern Victoria, Kerang
@ Milan - in C, the placement of "endlessly" is ok. It is intended to modify the verb "inspires" and does a decent job in this choice. But the issue with choice C is as noted by @ceilidh and also it makes more sense to use "a town in northern Victoria" as the descriptive information for "Kerang" as is done in choice E.

Hope this helps.

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by e-GMAT » Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:11 am
hutch27 wrote:how does this make any sense... "that inspires textile artist Gloria Loughman of Kerang. a town in northern Victoria." Doesn't this imply that gloria loughman is a town?
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@hutch27, the construction above does not imply that Gloria is a town. Lets look at the construction carefully:

Textile artist Gloria of Kerang, a town in northern Victoria.
Here the modifier "a town in northern Victoria" modifies the preceding noun "Kerang". So it provides descriptive information about this town Kerang.

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by Sapana » Wed Jan 16, 2013 5:01 pm
I completely missed the second hyphen.. Now reading back the answer is E hands down. Thank You!

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Sapana wrote:I think Bush-rugged is adjective for wilderness. Therefore, A and E is good.. In A, endlessly places at the end of the sentence is wierd therefore I think E is the better option. Any alternate opinion guys?
In E "rugged wilderness exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora" is put between hyphens as extra information for the Australian bush. This is one of the functions of hyphen. If you remove it from the sentence, the remaining part makes perfect sense.

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A. is not even a sentence, rather a fragment.

B. has the modifier of Aussie Bush placed far away.

C. Australian bush, a rugged wilderness exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora, endlessly inspires textile artist Gloria Loughman from a town in northern Victoria, Kerangfrom Kerang, a town in northern Victoria is direct and clear way of writting.

D. bush, its rugged wilderness, exhibiting great vistas and exotic flora, offers endless inspiration for textile artist Gloria Loughman of Kerang, a town in northern Victoria
inspiration to is needed to convey the intended meaning.

Hence, E skims out to be the butter of this process :-)
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