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Sentence Correction - alaska

by jay2007 » Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:03 pm
What is the correct answer?

Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil into a special fund, with the intention to sustain the state’s economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves.
(A) fund, with the intention to sustain the state’s economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves
(B) fund, the intention of which is to sustain the state’s economy after they have exhausted their oil reserves
(C) fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted
(D) fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after exhausting its oil reserves
(E) fund that they intend to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted
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by sandeepsept5 » Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:23 am
D.

Alaska is the subject and choice D correctly makes use of "its".

A choice, though uses its, appears to be too wordy.

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Re: Sentence Correction - alaska

by hopefully » Tue Jul 17, 2007 3:13 am
jay2007 wrote:What is the correct answer?

Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil into a special fund, with the intention to sustain the state’s economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves.
(A) fund, with the intention to sustain the state’s economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves
(B) fund, the intention of which is to sustain the state’s economy after they have exhausted their oil reserves
(C) fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted
(D) fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after exhausting its oil reserves
(E) fund that they intend to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted

a- wordy
b- exhaustion of which ... lengthy/wordy
c- correct
d- exhausting seems someone is exhausting and that the reserves are not getting exhausted of there own
e - makes it confusing by "they intend to sustain the economy''


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by winnerhere » Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:01 am
c is incorrect i think

because it simply means "after oil reserves are exhausted"...whose oil reserves...the whole world's?

confusing

anybody with clear answer?
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by blah45 » Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:26 am
Alaska regularly deposits some of its profits from the sale of oil into a special fund, with the intention to sustain the state’s economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves.
(A) fund, with the intention to sustain the state’s economy after the exhaustion of its oil reserves
(B) fund, the intention of which is to sustain the state’s economy after they have exhausted their oil reserves
(C) fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted
(D) fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after exhausting its oil reserves
(E) fund that they intend to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted
Between (A) and (D) ... I pick (A) which is little wordy, but clear in meaning.

In (D) ... "... fund intended to sustain..." ... not sure about that. Is it the fund or continual deposists which may help sustain the state's economy?

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by jay2007 » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:05 am
OA is C. Can some body explain why D can not be the correct answer?

C) Fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted
(D) fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after exhausting its oil reserves
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by jayhawk2001 » Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:10 pm
jay2007 wrote:OA is C. Can some body explain why D can not be the correct answer?

C) Fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after oil reserves are exhausted
(D) fund intended to sustain the state’s economy after exhausting its oil reserves
The second "its" has no clear referent in D. "its" cannot be used to refer
back to state as we are talking about "state's economy" here.

C avoids the pronoun problem by using "oil reserves are exhausted"
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by kishorenagr » Wed Jul 18, 2007 6:46 am
I agree with Jayhawk. Its has to refer to state and not state's economy. hence answer c
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by nil4700 » Mon Jun 23, 2008 6:31 pm
Hello all,

I've a small doubt in this question. If you compare options A and C, there is big difference in the menaing. Option A says that, Alaska is saving money to sustain the economy and it chose the particular fund for that. Option C says that the FUND itself sustains the economy of the state. So option C seems to be deviating from the actual sentence. If i'm wrong please correct me.

One possible error in A could be using ITS OIL RESERVES, where ITS doesn't clearly specify whose oil reserves they were. Please give me some explanation on this.

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by reachac » Mon Jun 23, 2008 7:46 pm
IMO C
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by aspiringgmat » Sun Nov 22, 2009 1:04 am
In option C , ".........after oil reserves are exhausted" ... it is showing present tense ....... should not it be a future tense?
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by brick2009 » Sun Nov 22, 2009 10:36 am
in D - its is not required...as we are talking only abt the state's economy...so you dont need ITS to reassert the (ITS OIL)

Also... in C:: --> funds intended...to sustain.. after ..reserves are exhausted

in D: funds intended...to sustain.. after ..exhausting... arent you changing the tense in D?????

hence C is correct
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by Ludacrispat26 » Sun Nov 22, 2009 1:22 pm
Look at D for a minute:

"...fund intended to sustain the state's economy after exhausting its oil reserves"

Who is sustaining? The fund. It also makes it seem as if the fund is exhausting the reserves itself. It's not.
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by aspiringgmat » Sun Nov 22, 2009 4:37 pm
Can some one answer my tense query that is mentioned above ?

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by Abdulla » Sun Nov 22, 2009 11:01 pm
I thought it's D too, but C makes sense now.
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