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by Kajiabeat » Thu Aug 18, 2011 7:19 pm
Both the Federal Reserve's decision that borrowing rates be raised, along with investor's speculation that another increase might be on the way, helped bolster the dollar in recent weeks by making deposits more attractive.

A.that borrowing rates be raised, along with investor's speculation that another increase might be on the way, helped bolster the dollar in recent weeks by making
B.that borrowing rates be raised and investors' speculation of possibly another increase on the way helped to bolster the dollar in recent weeks because they made
C.to raise borrowing rates and investors' speculation that another increase might be on the way helped to bolster the dollar in recent weeks by making
D.to raise borrowing rates, along with investors' speculation that another increase might be on the way, helped bolster the dollar in recent weeks because it made
E.to raise borrowing rates and investors' speculation of possibly another increase on the way helped bolster the dollar in recent weeks because they made

I wanna ask 2 questions,

1/ whether "the decesion and the speculation" can be the antecedent of "they" in choice B or E?
2/ help do sth/ help to do sth. is it a split or just a red herring?
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by 786 » Thu Aug 18, 2011 11:06 pm
1/ whether "the decesion and the speculation" can be the antecedent of "they" in choice B or E?
2/ help do sth/ help to do sth. is it a split or just a red herring?
1. I really doubt "the decesion and the speculation" can be the antecedent of "they"
Choice C eliminates this problem
2. I think both are correct.

IMO C.
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by arashyazdiha » Thu Aug 18, 2011 11:43 pm
Hi there,
Both HELP TO DO STH and HELP DO STH are correct.

I would eliminate B because of the word "possibly".
Also 'they' is a little bit ambiguous to me, because I cannot specify the antecedent. is it trying to say investors?(which is definitely wrong) or the federal reserve(which is also wrong) or the decision and speculation. sticking to the meaning I don't think that "they" refers to decision and speculation

And I think C is correct
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by bubbliiiiiiii » Fri Aug 19, 2011 12:53 am
A.that borrowing rates be raised, along with investor's speculation that another increase might be on the way, helped bolster the dollar in recent weeks by making
B.that borrowing rates be raised and investors' speculation of possibly another increase on the way helped to bolster the dollar in recent weeks because they made
C.to raise borrowing rates and investors' speculation that another increase might be on the way helped to bolster the dollar in recent weeks by making
D.to raise borrowing rates, along with investors' speculation that another increase might be on the way, helped bolster the dollar in recent weeks because it made
E.to raise borrowing rates and investors' speculation of possibly another increase on the way helped bolster the dollar in recent weeks because they made
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by killer1387 » Fri Aug 19, 2011 2:11 am
hey,
IMO E,
but i dunt understand y the use of that is justified in Option C and if its justified then use of that shud also be justified wid decision as in other options. Please clarify..
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by arashyazdiha » Fri Aug 19, 2011 3:33 am
I am not sure about "speculation of" to be correct, however this is not why I eliminate E.
E like B has the same problem of being wordy(possibly , and they made). and the use of "by making" is clear and has no ambiguity instead which is is in C.
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by GMATGuruNY » Fri Aug 19, 2011 4:27 am
Kajiabeat wrote:Both the Federal Reserve's decision that borrowing rates be raised, along with investor's speculation that another increase might be on the way, helped bolster the dollar in recent weeks by making deposits more attractive.

A.that borrowing rates be raised, along with investor's speculation that another increase might be on the way, helped bolster the dollar in recent weeks by making
B.that borrowing rates be raised and investors' speculation of possibly another increase on the way helped to bolster the dollar in recent weeks because they made
C.to raise borrowing rates and investors' speculation that another increase might be on the way helped to bolster the dollar in recent weeks by making
D.to raise borrowing rates, along with investors' speculation that another increase might be on the way, helped bolster the dollar in recent weeks because it made
E.to raise borrowing rates and investors' speculation of possibly another increase on the way helped bolster the dollar in recent weeks because they made

I wanna ask 2 questions,

1/ whether "the decesion and the speculation" can be the antecedent of "they" in choice B or E?
2/ help do sth/ help to do sth. is it a split or just a red herring?
IN A and D, both....along with is not idiomatic. The correct idiom is both X and Y. Eliminate A and D.

In B and E, the antecedents of they are not crystal clear. Since C avoids the ambiguity, eliminate B and E.

The correct answer is C.

A few verbs can be combined with what is known as the bare infinitive: TO + VERB without the to. Among these verbs are help, make, and see.
A common construction is HELP/MAKE/SEE + DIRECT OBJECT + BARE INFINITVE:

John helped Mary cook dinner.
You made me love you.
I saw him take the cookie.

In the sentences above, cook, love and take are all bare infinitives (TO + VERB without the to).

Help + bare infinitive -- without an intervening direct object, such as helped bolster in the SC above -- is common in the real world but seems too informal for the GMAT. I personally prefer helped TO bolster.
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by HSPA » Fri Aug 19, 2011 9:35 am
Hi Mitch,

C looks like a best of worse answer ...
In C the 'X' and 'Y' that you mentioned for idiom are not parallel.

Is this okay? or they are in parallel??
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by GMATGuruNY » Fri Aug 19, 2011 11:12 am
HSPA wrote:Hi Mitch,

C looks like a best of worse answer ...
In C the 'X' and 'Y' that you mentioned for idiom are not parallel.

Is this okay? or they are in parallel??
Here's C:

...both the Federal Reserve's decision...and investors' speculation...

The construction above is parallel.
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by Kajiabeat » Fri Aug 19, 2011 6:56 pm
GMATGuruNY wrote:
HSPA wrote:Hi Mitch,

C looks like a best of worse answer ...
In C the 'X' and 'Y' that you mentioned for idiom are not parallel.

Is this okay? or they are in parallel??
Here's C:

...both the Federal Reserve's decision...and investors' speculation...

The construction above is parallel.
Hi Mitch,

Thank you for your quick answer!

I still wanna confirm that avoiding the usage of "they" is just because ambiguity which is caused by the following 2 reasons:v1 it is too far away from its antecedent and 2 the antecedent itself is a complicated structured phrase.

But theoretically, "they" can refer to "decision and speculation" .

Am I right?
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by crick » Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:27 am
Cis the winner here.

There is another problem with E. It says

speculation of possibly another increase .=> possibly here is redundant. speculation itself means possibility.

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