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by prachich1987 » Thu Jan 06, 2011 7:15 am
Brief psychotherapy requires far fewer hours and costs far less money than traditional psychoanalysis, and so will hopefully prove to be an effective treatment for many of the large amount of people currently seeking therapy

A. will hopefully prove to be an effective treatment for many of the large amount of people currently seeking therapy

B. will prove hopefully to be an effective treatment for many of the large amount

C. hopefully will prove to be an effective treatment for many of the large number

D.will, it is hoped, prove to be an effective treatment for many of the large number

E. will, it is hoped, prove to be an effective treatment for many of the large amount
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by shovan85 » Thu Jan 06, 2011 8:51 am
prachich1987 wrote:Brief psychotherapy requires far fewer hours and costs far less money than traditional psychoanalysis, and so will hopefully prove to be an effective treatment for many of the large amount of people currently seeking therapy

A. will hopefully prove to be an effective treatment for many of the large amount of people currently seeking therapy

B. will prove hopefully to be an effective treatment for many of the large amount

C. hopefully will prove to be an effective treatment for many of the large number

D.will, it is hoped, prove to be an effective treatment for many of the large number

E. will, it is hoped, prove to be an effective treatment for many of the large amount
Discard A, B and E as people are countable. "Number of" is the correct usage not "amount of".

There are many discussions found here those say "Hopefully is always wrong in GMAT". Why hopefully is wrong you can go through this article: https://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.p ... e=19961122

Thus answer is D
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by bblast » Thu Jan 06, 2011 12:30 pm
will, it is hoped in D sounds weird to me.

whats the OA
C or D ?
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by Dravidian » Thu Jan 06, 2011 6:36 pm
prachich1987 wrote:Brief psychotherapy requires far fewer hours and costs far less money than traditional psychoanalysis, and so will hopefully prove to be an effective treatment for many of the large amount of people currently seeking therapy

A. will hopefully prove to be an effective treatment for many of the large amount of people currently seeking therapy

B. will prove hopefully to be an effective treatment for many of the large amount

C. hopefully will prove to be an effective treatment for many of the large number

D.will, it is hoped, prove to be an effective treatment for many of the large number

E. will, it is hoped, prove to be an effective treatment for many of the large amount
Choices A, B & E are out because all of them use large "amount". I would go with C. Awkward construction (passive voice) in D.
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by gtr02 » Thu Jan 06, 2011 7:54 pm
isnt there a pronoun issue with "it" for choice (D) & (E)?
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by prachich1987 » Thu Jan 06, 2011 11:34 pm
bblast.
The OA is D
From the above explanation given by Shovan85,I understand that use of "hopefully" is definitely wrong.
But "will, it is hoped really sounds odd

Shovan85, can you please explain this?

gtr02-I don't find any pronoun issues here."It" actually doesn't refer to anything.
Please go through below statements

1) It is very important that you eat all vegetables
2) It is nice to meet you.
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by shovan85 » Fri Jan 07, 2011 2:19 am
prachich1987 wrote:bblast.
The OA is D
From the above explanation given by Shovan85,I understand that use of "hopefully" is definitely wrong.
But "will, it is hoped really sounds odd

Shovan85, can you please explain this?

gtr02-I don't find any pronoun issues here."It" actually doesn't refer to anything.
Please go through below statements

1) It is very important that you eat all vegetables
2) It is nice to meet you.
What do u want me to explain ;)

I know usage of "Hopefully" in GMAT is almost always Wrong. But I am not saying that discard an option just by seeing "hopefully".

I think below is the possible ambiguity example that can rise by the usage of "Hopefully":

We'll hopefully go shopping tomorrow

So does this mean "if we are going to the shopping" or "we are going shopping in a hopeful manner (in order to get something )".

Grammatically, option C and D both are correct but C has the above kind of ambiguity.

As per IT pronoun ambiguity, Prachi is correct as per the examples. It is called "Place Holder".
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by Target2009 » Sat Jan 08, 2011 8:19 pm
prachich1987 wrote:Brief psychotherapy requires far fewer hours and costs far less money than traditional psychoanalysis, and so will hopefully prove to be an effective treatment for many of the large amount of people currently seeking therapy

A. will hopefully prove to be an effective treatment for many of the large amount of people currently seeking therapy

B. will prove hopefully to be an effective treatment for many of the large amount

C. hopefully will prove to be an effective treatment for many of the large number

D.will, it is hoped, prove to be an effective treatment for many of the large number

E. will, it is hoped, prove to be an effective treatment for many of the large amount
IMO - D
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by pesfunk » Sat Jan 29, 2011 6:35 pm
The OA must be D.

C is incorrect because of the sequence in "hopefully will prove".

will should come before hopefully.
bblast wrote:will, it is hoped in D sounds weird to me.

whats the OA
C or D ?
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by prachich1987 » Sat Jan 29, 2011 9:37 pm
pesfunk wrote:The OA must be D.

C is incorrect because of the sequence in "hopefully will prove".

will should come before hopefully.
bblast wrote:will, it is hoped in D sounds weird to me.

whats the OA
C or D ?
I think even if WILL comes before hopefully ,it will be wrong

@shovan85--can u plz shed some light on this
Thanks!
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