Salsa Dancers - Excercise Routine

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Salsa Dancers - Excercise Routine

by visjain » Sun May 24, 2009 6:04 am
Salsa Dancers warm up before every performance by doing a series of warmup and stretching exercises, and it reduces the chance of injury.

a) Salsa Dancers warm up before every performance by doing a series of warmup and stretching exercises, and it reduces the chance of injury.

b) exercises, which reduces

c) exercises, reducing

d) exercises, the routine reduces

e) exercises, so the routine reduces

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by vcgmat » Sun May 24, 2009 7:33 am
IMO, B

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by rseeker2 » Sun May 24, 2009 7:40 am
Is it A?

The warm up reduces the risk of injury... and so the usage of 'it' would be appropriate.

Using 'which' would make it point to 'a series of warmup and stretching exercises'.

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Re: Salsa Dancers - Excercise Routine

by Vemuri » Sun May 24, 2009 9:08 am
IMO C.

The "it" in the original sentence does not have an antecedent. A gerund is required here to qualify the preceding clause.

B - "which reduces" makes a singular relative pronoun. In this case, we need to qualify warmup and stretching exercises, which are plural.

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by cramya » Sun May 24, 2009 9:50 am
In my view, Relative pronouns like" which" and "that" can refer to singular or plural nouns depending on the verb.

Salsa Dancers warm up before every performance by doing a series of warmup and stretching exercises, and it reduces the chance of injury.

a) Salsa Dancers warm up before every performance by doing a series of warmup and stretching exercises, and it reduces the chance of injury.

b) exercises, which reduces

c) exercises, reducing (looks like sals dancers are reducing something)

d) exercises, the routine reduces (what routine??)

e) exercises, so the routine reduces

IMO B

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by Vemuri » Sun May 24, 2009 9:57 am
cramya wrote:In my view, Relative pronouns like" which" and "that" can refer to singular or plural nouns depending on the verb.

Salsa Dancers warm up before every performance by doing a series of warmup and stretching exercises, and it reduces the chance of injury.

a) Salsa Dancers warm up before every performance by doing a series of warmup and stretching exercises, and it reduces the chance of injury.

b) exercises, which reduces

c) exercises, reducing (looks like sals dancers are reducing something)

d) exercises, the routine reduces (what routine??)

e) exercises, so the routine reduces

IMO B
That's right cramya. What was I thinking? :-)

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by aj5105 » Sun May 24, 2009 10:35 pm
Agree with CR.

(B) for Bombay

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by sg1928 » Thu May 28, 2009 5:53 am
cramya wrote:In my view, Relative pronouns like" which" and "that" can refer to singular or plural nouns depending on the verb.

Salsa Dancers warm up before every performance by doing a series of warmup and stretching exercises, and it reduces the chance of injury.

a) Salsa Dancers warm up before every performance by doing a series of warmup and stretching exercises, and it reduces the chance of injury.

b) exercises, which reduces

c) exercises, reducing (looks like sals dancers are reducing something)

d) exercises, the routine reduces (what routine??)

e) exercises, so the routine reduces

IMO B
CR - Great explanation. I have a question.
"In my view, Relative pronouns like" which" and "that" can refer to singular or plural nouns depending on the verb." - Do you mean "which" and "that" can refer both singular and plural verbs? Here "which" refers to exercises, but it still uses singular verb. I am confused here. If you can elaborate that would be great. Thanks in advance.

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by The GMAT Chef » Thu May 28, 2009 11:50 am
cramya wrote:In my view, Relative pronouns like" which" and "that" can refer to singular or plural nouns depending on the verb.

Salsa Dancers warm up before every performance by doing a series of warmup and stretching exercises, and it reduces the chance of injury.

a) Salsa Dancers warm up before every performance by doing a series of warmup and stretching exercises, and it reduces the chance of injury.

b) exercises, which reduces

c) exercises, reducing (looks like sals dancers are reducing something)

d) exercises, the routine reduces (what routine??)

e) exercises, so the routine reduces

IMO B
Good job cramya and vemuri!
Now, here is my take on it:

a) Salsa Dancers warm up before every performance by doing a series of warmup and stretching exercises, and it reduces the chance of injury.

a) is definitely out because "and it" is awkward.

b) exercises, which reduces
grammatically acceptable but ambiguous. Who/What is reducing the chance of injury? "a series..." is a candidate as is the whole clause before the comma but not "exercises", a plural word.

"which" after a comma usually replaces the noun directly before it but it can also replace the previous clause as we'll see in c)

c) exercises, reducing is good and should be the correct answer:

"Salsa dancers warm up...exercises" leads to "reducing the chance of injury."
An adverbial participle (reducing) can be the first word in a clause that gives more information about another clause. It often tells you what the consequences of the first clause are.
Choice c) happens to be the most concise as well. However, conciseness should be your last worry on the GMAT.

d) exercises, the routine reduces
There needs to be a semi-colon after "exercises".

e) exercises, so the routine reduces
is grammatically acceptable but changes the intended meaning.
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by rahulsaroha » Fri May 29, 2009 2:44 am
agree with u chef..
"c" is correct...salsa dancers are reducing chances of injury by exercising....
"b" too seemed to be correct in first sight..but actually.."which" may refer to salsa dancers which is not correct
for which to be correct sentence should be like this...

Warm up and stretching exercises which reduces the chance of injury are done by Salsa dancers before every performance....
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Re: Salsa Dancers - Excercise Routine

by sudeep_ar » Fri May 29, 2009 10:35 am
visjain wrote:Salsa Dancers warm up before every performance by doing a series of warmup and stretching exercises, and it reduces the chance of injury.

a) Salsa Dancers warm up before every performance by doing a series of warmup and stretching exercises, and it reduces the chance of injury.

b) exercises, which reduces

c) exercises, reducing

d) exercises, the routine reduces

e) exercises, so the routine reduces
IMO C

in (B) which is modifying the exercises and not including the warm up
but both are for reducing the chances of injury.

'reducing' in (B) correctly conveys the meaning

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by virgo80 » Sun May 31, 2009 9:30 am
IMO C

whats the OA visjain ?

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by ketkoag » Sun May 31, 2009 9:55 am
cramya, please resolve this ambiguity as i think i thought it the same way as chef.. Need your suggestion here..:)

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by marshmallow » Sun May 31, 2009 5:20 pm
cramya wrote:In my view, Relative pronouns like" which" and "that" can refer to singular or plural nouns depending on the verb.

Salsa Dancers warm up before every performance by doing a series of warmup and stretching exercises, and it reduces the chance of injury.

a) Salsa Dancers warm up before every performance by doing a series of warmup and stretching exercises, and it reduces the chance of injury.

b) exercises, which reduces

c) exercises, reducing (looks like sals dancers are reducing something)

d) exercises, the routine reduces (what routine??)

e) exercises, so the routine reduces

IMO B
I have a question here. I think it's not the exercise itself that could reduce the chance of injury, instead it should be the behavior that doing this exercise that could. So use "routine " here seems logic go me. Would you be kind enough to clear this cloud for me?

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by perfectstranger » Sun Jun 07, 2009 5:45 am
What's the OA ? Can an expert clarify questions such as these ? Everyone is saying an opinion and I really got confused :S