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by arorag » Fri Oct 24, 2008 5:55 pm
In a crowded, acquisitive world, the disapperance of lifestyles such as those once followed by southern Africa's Bushmen and Australia's aborigines, requiring vast wild spaces and permitting little accumulation of goods, seem inevitably doomed.
(B) requiring vast wild spaces and permitting little accumulation of goods, seems to be inevitably doomed
© which require vast wild spaces and permit little accumulation of goods, seems to be inevitably doomed
(D) life-styles that require vast wild spaces and permit little accumulation of goods, seem inevitable
(E) life-stlyes requiring vast wild spaces and permitting little accumulation of goods, seems inevitable






Between A and B
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by raajan_p » Fri Oct 24, 2008 6:40 pm
IMO, its D.

Can you please confirm the answer.

I am thinking that A,B and C fail to indicate the word 'lifestyles' which is needs a mention in the begining of the underlined piece of the sentence.

w.r.t E, the usage of the word 'seems' is incorrect.
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by Bidisha800 » Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:32 pm
(B) has the correct subject verb agreement.
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by logitech » Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:54 pm
the disapperance of lifestyles --> Singular is the subject of the sentence. So we need SEEMS not SEEM ---> Eliminate A & D

Among B, C and E:

B) requiring modifies the previous statement
C) which incorrectly modifies aborigines
E) I like to way it repeats LIFE styles but life-stlyes requiring vast wild spaces and permitting little SOUNDS awkward so I would go with B.

What is the OA ?
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by logitech » Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:59 pm
I am not sure whether it is B or E. Both answer choices have flaws but I am not 100 % positive for my B pick. But it is between E and B.
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by Jatinder » Sat Oct 25, 2008 12:09 am
imo Its b/w B and C

The disappearance.....seems is correct. So rule out A and D
Now rule out E as well as "Africa's Bushmen and Australia's aborigines" are not the life styles.

I think C makes it right with the non restrictive clause introduced by "which" and it says "require", not "requires" => which is reffering to the compound subject
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by logitech » Sat Oct 25, 2008 12:22 am
Jatinder wrote:imo Its b/w B and C

The disappearance.....seems is correct. So rule out A and D
Now rule out E as well as "Africa's Bushmen and Australia's aborigines" are not the life styles.

I think C makes it right with the non restrictive clause introduced by "which" and it says "require", not "requires" => which is reffering to the compound subject
One of the ways to correct a modifier problem is to insert the word what is being modified and explain it:

Option D and E do that.

In option C:

.............. X, which

which modifies X

But require vs REQUIRES is a good catch but aborigines is plural so ?

Let's see what the OA is...
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by stop@800 » Sat Oct 25, 2008 1:28 am
Has to be C


A
the disapperance of lifestyles seem
disapperance is singular

B
has incorrectly used which

D
the disapperance of lifestyles such as .... , lifestyles.... is not correct
OUT



E
the disapperance of lifestyles such as .... , lifestyles is not correct
We do not need lifestyles again
also
lifestyles seems is wrong
OUT

so IMO C
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by logitech » Sat Oct 25, 2008 1:37 am
stop@800 wrote:Has to be C




B
has incorrectly used which



so IMO C
So does B use "which" ?

Oh testmagic is discussing this problem as well:

https://www.urch.com/forums/gmat-sentenc ... ifier.html
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by stop@800 » Sat Oct 25, 2008 1:42 am
logitech wrote:
stop@800 wrote:Has to be C




B
has incorrectly used which



so IMO C
So does B use "which" ?

Oh testmagic is discussing this problem as well:

https://www.urch.com/forums/gmat-sentenc ... ifier.html
Sorry for the Typo

Which in C is incorrect
so I am with B
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by rohangupta83 » Sat Oct 25, 2008 2:01 am
yes B it is

which in C modifies ''southern Africa's Bushmen and Australia's aborigines''

Only A,C and E get the subject-verb agreement correct. C is already out and E is awkward.

So, B it is.
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by VodkaBoy » Tue Dec 02, 2008 2:15 pm
Hi guys!

Obviously, according to subj-verb agreement, the choise is between B and E.
I choose E, b'cos "disapperance of lifestyles ... seems inevitably doomed" sounds ilogically, since Lifestyles could be ...doomed, but Dissapearance of lifestyles can only be inevitable, without "doomed".

What do you think?

P.S. also, they probably test resumptive modifier here, but I'm not sure about this.
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by ronniecoleman » Tue Dec 02, 2008 6:41 pm
IMO E

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by vivek.kapoor83 » Wed Dec 03, 2008 4:16 am
https://www.beatthegmat.com/lifestyles-t24140.html


pls refer to above link
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by mudit_verma » Thu Dec 04, 2008 2:40 am
The pronoun which can only modify a noun not the action of entire clause
here the clause
'the disappreance of... such as ...' is showing an action and thus cannot be modified by which, gerunds are use to modify action of clauses

so i will choose B as in A verb 'seem' should not be used for singular subject...
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