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ruplun: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 232; Joined: Fri Jun 18, 2010 7:09 amFollowed by: 2 members; Thanked: 1 times

by ruplun » Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:34 am

After moving to Switzerland in the 1890's, Albert Einstein attended the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich, receiving in-depth training in quantitative analysis and developing a foundation for his future work in mathematical physics.

(A) attended the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich, receiving in-depth training in quantitative analysis and developing
(B) attended the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich, receiving in-depth training in quantitative analysis and developed
(C) attended the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich, received in-depth training in quantitative analysis, and he developed
(D) attended the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich, received in-depth training in quantitative analysis, developing
(E) attending the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich, receiving in-depth training in quantitative analysis, and developing

PLEASE let me know the solution for this

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by debmalya_dutta » Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:41 am

my pick is A...

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by beatthegmatinsept » Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:53 am

After moving to Switzerland in the 1890's, Albert Einstein attended the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich, receiving in-depth training in quantitative analysis and developing a foundation for his future work in mathematical physics.

A too. Perfectly describes the timing of events..
1. Albert Einstein moved to Switzerland...
2. attended the SFP school in Zurich...
3. receiving training.. and developing foundation.. (as a result of attending the school).

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by hi.itz.mani » Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:54 am

ruplun wrote:After moving to Switzerland in the 1890's, Albert Einstein attended the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich, receiving in-depth training in quantitative analysis and developing a foundation for his future work in mathematical physics.

(A) attended the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich, receiving in-depth training in quantitative analysis and developing 1. receiving is a participle ( ing ) modifier which modifies the preceding clause ... which is correct here 2. receiving and developing is parallel

(B) attended the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich, receiving in-depth training in quantitative analysis and developed parallelism is broken ( receiving and developed) hence incorrect
(C) attended the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich, received in-depth training in quantitative analysis, and he developed Received is ed participle which modifies the preceding noun, which is Zurich here hence incorrect
(D) attended the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich, received in-depth training in quantitative analysis, developing 1. issues same as C
(E) attending the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich, receiving in-depth training in quantitative analysis, and developing attending is incorrect as the event was in past

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by Gurpinder » Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:55 am

Opps....A. Einstien is also underlined. I thought it was part of the question!

I'll remove my response!

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by niksworth » Tue Aug 31, 2010 1:06 pm

I think that the correct answer should be B. Let me try to reason this one out.

The clear reasoning for A seems that Einstein did two things at the school in Zurich -
A) received in-depth training
b) developed a strong foundation to his future work.

Since these two need to be in parallel, option A with receiving and developing seems right.

However, if the intended meaning of the statement is that after moving to Switzerland in the 1890's, Einstein did two things
a) attended the school in Zurich, receiving in depth training in quantitative analysis
b) developed a foundation for his future work in physics

Then attended and developed need to be in parallel, which they clearly are in option B.

So, it boils down to - what does the author actually mean here.
I think that to say that Einstein developed his foundation in school is narrowing down too much. It is safer to say that he did so during his stay in Zurich. This makes B the correct choice.

Or am I reading too much into it? What is the OA here? Please also mention the source.

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by BastiG » Tue Aug 31, 2010 1:28 pm

niksworth wrote:I think that the correct answer should be B. Let me try to reason this one out.

The clear reasoning for A seems that Einstein did two things at the school in Zurich -
A) received in-depth training
b) developed a strong foundation to his future work.

Since these two need to be in parallel, option A with receiving and developing seems right.

However, if the intended meaning of the statement is that after moving to Switzerland in the 1890's, Einstein did two things
a) attended the school in Zurich, receiving in depth training in quantitative analysis
b) developed a foundation for his future work in physics

Then attended and developed need to be in parallel, which they clearly are in option B.

So, it boils down to - what does the author actually mean here.
I think that to say that Einstein developed his foundation in school is narrowing down too much. It is safer to say that he did so during his stay in Zurich. This makes B the correct choice.

Or am I reading too much into it? What is the OA here? Please also mention the source.

The original sentence determines what the author means except it is illogical or obviously wrong. OA should be A. And remember that the structures Before and after "and" needs to be ||. What you are describing is not parallel and it seems that there should be different tenses. Because first he attended school and then after that he will develop the foundation for his future work in physics.

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by niksworth » Tue Aug 31, 2010 1:47 pm

BastiG wrote:
niksworth wrote:I think that the correct answer should be B. Let me try to reason this one out.

The clear reasoning for A seems that Einstein did two things at the school in Zurich -
A) received in-depth training
b) developed a strong foundation to his future work.

Since these two need to be in parallel, option A with receiving and developing seems right.

However, if the intended meaning of the statement is that after moving to Switzerland in the 1890's, Einstein did two things
a) attended the school in Zurich, receiving in depth training in quantitative analysis
b) developed a foundation for his future work in physics

Then attended and developed need to be in parallel, which they clearly are in option B.

So, it boils down to - what does the author actually mean here.
I think that to say that Einstein developed his foundation in school is narrowing down too much. It is safer to say that he did so during his stay in Zurich. This makes B the correct choice.

Or am I reading too much into it? What is the OA here? Please also mention the source.
The original sentence determines what the author means except it is illogical or obviously wrong. OA should be A. And remember that the structures Before and after "and" needs to be ||. What you are describing is not parallel.

Well, again, we can say that the conjunction and is joining two phrases -
a) attended the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich, receiving in-depth training in quantitative analysis
b) developed a foundation for his future work in mathematical physics.

In this case, the verbs attended and developed need to be in parallel, which they clearly are in option B.

And there is no need for different tenses as activities a. and b. (as stated above) happened simultaneously.

Also, since the central portion of the sentence (which gives the meaning) is underlined in A, I think that it would be faulty to assume that whatever A says has to be the intended meaning. Meaning should come logically out of the statement from its grammatical construction.

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by niksworth » Tue Aug 31, 2010 1:59 pm

Hmm, this doubt has been discussed in Manhattan GMAT forum as well. The experts there seem to have settled for A (going with the original meaning). I will shut up in that case, though am not very satisfied!

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