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Mayur Sand: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 166; Joined: Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:16 pm; Location: India

by Mayur Sand » Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:48 pm

Seldom more that 40 feet wide and 12 feet deep, but it ran 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, the Erie Canal connected the Hudson River at Albany to the Great Lakes at Buffalo, providing the port of New York City with a direct water link to the heartland of the North American continent.

A. Seldom more than 40 feet wide and 12 feet deep, but it ran 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, the Erie Canal connected
B. Seldom more than 40 feet wide or 12 feet deep but running 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, the Erie Canal connected
C. It was seldom more than 40 feet wide and 12 feet deep, and ran 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, but the Erie Canal, connecting
D. The Erie Canal was seldom more than 40 feet wide or 12 feet deep and it ran 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, which connected
E. The Erie Canal, seldom more than 40 feet wide and 12 feet deep, but running 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, connecting

IMO E OA B

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by debmalya_dutta » Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:34 pm

I have seen the 2 terms IMO and OA very commonly used by the GMAT group members ? Can you please state what the acronym stands for ?

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I think the correct answer is E

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by madhur_ahuja » Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:45 pm

debmalya_dutta wrote:I have seen the 2 terms IMO and OA very commonly used by the GMAT group members ? Can you please state what the acronym stands for ? :

IMO - In My Opinion

OA - Official Answer

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by madhur_ahuja » Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:50 pm

E is not preferable because the noun Erie canal is too far away from the modifying phrase ,connecting .....

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by tanviet » Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:23 pm

B is correct

A there is no connection between 2 clauses

E is not a sentence

b,d the subordinate conjuctions is not a clause

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by suo1987 » Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:32 pm

I agree that it is b as well.

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by nawaab007 » Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:31 am

One more B

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by good_done25 » Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:05 am

I also agree with B.

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by vineetbatra » Sun Oct 25, 2009 11:12 am

Can some one explain why E creates a fragment, it is just a modifier that modifies Erie Canal

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by adam15 » Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:58 pm

Connecting, in E, modifies New York, which is wrong, NY can not connect to separate thing a river does. so answer E is disqualified. in D "it" is redundant and which could refer to NY as well. in C, "it" refers to something unstated.
and in A, "it" is redundant as well so we are left with choice "B" best answer.
remember modifier should be as close as possible to the noun or subject it modfies.

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by mmslf75 » Tue Jan 12, 2010 11:29 am

adam15 wrote:Connecting, in E, modifies New York, which is wrong, NY can not connect to separate thing a river does. so answer E is disqualified. in D "it" is redundant and which could refer to NY as well. in C, "it" refers to something unstated.
and in A, "it" is redundant as well so we are left with choice "B" best answer.
remember modifier should be as close as possible to the noun or subject it modfies.

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Grammatically, the antecedent of the pronoun "it" in choice A is somewhat ambiguous and the placement of it is awkward. Additionally, the simple past tense "ran" incorrectly seems to indicate that the Erie Canal no longer exists. Finally, "or" from choice B is preferential to "and" from choice A, since "and" indicates that both of these conditions must be met at the same time. It is more logical that the canal is infrequently 40 feet wide or 12 feet deep anywhere along its 363 mile length.

Query here is :
Do u have to think so much < look at BOLD part> ???

Any1 Anyhelp!

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by mehravikas » Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:40 pm

IMO - Cut the Crap Mantra

The Erie Canal, seldom more than 40 feet wide and 12 feet deep, but running 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, connecting

E has non-restrictive clause (underlined above). If a sentence has a non-restrictive clause, then it should be grammatically correct even if that clause is removed from the sentence. If you remove it from the sentence, the sentence would be -

The Erie Canal but running 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, connecting - which IMO is not correct.

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by viidyasagar » Tue Jan 12, 2010 9:24 pm

IMO - Cut the Crap Mantra

The Erie Canal, seldom more than 40 feet wide and 12 feet deep, but running 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, connecting

E has non-restrictive clause (underlined above). If a sentence has a non-restrictive clause, then it should be grammatically correct even if that clause is removed from the sentence. If you remove it from the sentence, the sentence would be -

The Erie Canal but running 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, connecting - which IMO is not correct.

Totally agree with this explanation, IMO, the perfect explanation......kudos

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by mmslf75 » Tue Jan 12, 2010 9:55 pm

mehravikas wrote:IMO - Cut the Crap Mantra

The Erie Canal, seldom more than 40 feet wide and 12 feet deep, but running 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, connecting

E has non-restrictive clause (underlined above). If a sentence has a non-restrictive clause, then it should be grammatically correct even if that clause is removed from the sentence. If you remove it from the sentence, the sentence would be -

The Erie Canal but running 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, connecting - which IMO is not correct.

vikas sahab,

good one
thanks!!

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by mehravikas » Wed Jan 13, 2010 12:18 am

Thanks

mmslf75 wrote:
mehravikas wrote:IMO - Cut the Crap Mantra

The Erie Canal, seldom more than 40 feet wide and 12 feet deep, but running 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, connecting

E has non-restrictive clause (underlined above). If a sentence has a non-restrictive clause, then it should be grammatically correct even if that clause is removed from the sentence. If you remove it from the sentence, the sentence would be -

The Erie Canal but running 363 miles across the rugged wilderness of upstate New York, connecting - which IMO is not correct.
vikas sahab,

good one
thanks!!

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