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by cool_sni » Fri May 22, 2009 5:00 pm
This is from old gmat test-set 52

A large and increasingly influential sector of publishing, 20 percent of all the National and American Book awards since 1950 have gone to university-press books.


(A) entire sentence.

(B) A large and increasingly influential sector of publishing, university-press books have won 20 percent of all the National and American Book awards since 1950.

(C) Increasingly influential as a large sector of publishing, 20 percent of all the National and American Book awards since 1950 have gone to university-press books.

(D) Since 1950, a large and increasingly influential sector of publishing, 20 percent of all the National and American Book awards have gone to university-press books.

(E) Since 1950, university-press books, a large and increasingly influential sector of publishing, won 20 percent of all the National and American Book awards from then on.

OA B but I selected E

What's wrong with E [/spoiler]
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by myohmy » Fri May 22, 2009 5:10 pm
This issue with E comes at the end of the sentence.

(E) Since 1950, university-press books, a large and increasingly influential sector of publishing, won 20 percent of all the National and American Book awards from then on.

It is redundant (and unidiomatic) to say that "Since 1950, university press books ... won 20% of the awards ... from then on."

In addition, E uses the incorrect tense, we should use "have won" over "won" here.

While E corrects the original misplaced modifier error, B is both more concise and makes more sense.
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by cool_sni » Fri May 22, 2009 5:37 pm
Ahh, I see.
I should read the whole sentence.
Thank for pointing out myohmy
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by rahulg83 » Fri May 22, 2009 11:36 pm
Oh..i read that casually and selected E.
If we remove from then on from the end of choice E, will it be preferable over B??
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by gmat_dest » Sat May 23, 2009 9:12 am
@Rahul

No. Since...needs the present perfect tense 'have'

(B) will still be correct.
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by mike22629 » Sat May 23, 2009 2:28 pm
Good tip:

Whenever since is used in sentence use have/has with verb

Since 2344, she has..........

This is because it started in 2344 and continues on...
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by pg850 » Wed Aug 05, 2009 9:34 am
(B) A large and increasingly influential sector of publishing, university-press books have won 20 percent of all the National and American Book awards since 1950.

Shouldnt "have won' be "has won" since university press books is "a sector of publishing"?
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by tom4lax » Fri Aug 07, 2009 1:16 pm
No I dont think so, the subject there is university press books (plural).

" A large and increasingly influential sector of publishing" is modifying university press books.
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Re: Increasingly influential sector

by shahdevine » Fri Aug 07, 2009 1:42 pm
cool_sni wrote:This is from old gmat test-set 52

A large and increasingly influential sector of publishing, 20 percent of all the National and American Book awards since 1950 have gone to university-press books.


(A) entire sentence.

(B) A large and increasingly influential sector of publishing, university-press books have won 20 percent of all the National and American Book awards since 1950.

(C) Increasingly influential as a large sector of publishing, 20 percent of all the National and American Book awards since 1950 have gone to university-press books.

(D) Since 1950, a large and increasingly influential sector of publishing, 20 percent of all the National and American Book awards have gone to university-press books.

(E) Since 1950, university-press books, a large and increasingly influential sector of publishing, won 20 percent of all the National and American Book awards from then on.

OA B but I selected E

What's wrong with E [/spoiler]
e is no good because of dangling preposition, "then on." when you see sentences end with prepositions like "on", "by", "from", etc. eliminate them as possible choices.
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