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by artstudent » Mon Aug 01, 2011 5:49 am
Isn't A missing action? X declined but began to grow because the Y that linked A with B.
I feel like there's a missing action with the report. After the report what? published? Linked? The "linked" here is not an action but a subordinate clause. Report has no action, the "that" clause specificy what type of report but theres no action.


Sales of wines declined in the late 1980s, but they began to grow again after the 1991 report that linked moderate consumption of alcohol, and particularly of red wine, with a reduced risk of heart disease.

A)...
B) after the 1991 report that linked a reduced risk of heart disease with a moderate alcohol consumption, particularly red wine, they began growing again
C) in a 1991 report, moderate alcohol consumption, and particularly of red wine, which was linked with a reduced risk of heart disease, caused them to begin to grow again
D) with a reduced risk of heart disease linked in a 1991 report with moderate alcohol consumption, in particular red wine, they began growing again
E) a reduced risk of heart disease linked to moderate alcohol consumption in a 1991 report, and in particular red wine, started them growing again
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by VivianKerr » Mon Aug 01, 2011 7:48 am
"linked ______ with _____ " is the expression here.

"and particularly of red wine" can be thought of as an appositive phrase since it's surrounded by commas. Meaning the sentence should still stand on its own if we were to delete it.

"THAT" introduces a relative clause which modifies the "report." The rest of the sentence simply describes the report and what it says.

If the sentence ended after "report" is would still make sense:

"Sale of wine declined..., but they began to grow again after the 1991 report."

Let's look at another example:

High heels went out of style in 1998, but they became popular again after a 2004 magazine article that linked the celebrity lifestyle with high heels.

B puts the incredible long prepositional phrase/relative clause in between the two noun/verb clauses.
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by BlindVision » Mon Aug 01, 2011 8:24 pm
artstudent wrote:Isn't A missing action? X declined but began to grow because the Y that linked A with B.
I feel like there's a missing action with the report. After the report what? published? Linked? The "linked" here is not an action but a subordinate clause. Report has no action, the "that" clause specificy what type of report but theres no action.


Sales of wines declined in the late 1980s, but they began to grow again after the 1991 report that linked moderate consumption of alcohol, and particularly of red wine, with a reduced risk of heart disease.

A)...
B) after the 1991 report that linked a reduced risk of heart disease with a moderate alcohol consumption, particularly red wine, they began growing again
C) in a 1991 report, moderate alcohol consumption, and particularly of red wine, which was linked with a reduced risk of heart disease, caused them to begin to grow again
D) with a reduced risk of heart disease linked in a 1991 report with moderate alcohol consumption, in particular red wine, they began growing again
E) a reduced risk of heart disease linked to moderate alcohol consumption in a 1991 report, and in particular red wine, started them growing again
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by artstudent » Tue Aug 02, 2011 12:34 am
Hi Vivian,

Stupid question here but I still don't understand how:

"Sales declined but they began to rise after a 1991 report" = correct

What does this mean exactly? Specifically "after 1991 report"?

Here, 1991 is an adjective. Let's take it out. You get:

"Sales declined but they began to rise after a report"

Another Ex: John has been working but stopped after a call.

The meaning in all of these is unclear and stops abruptly.



VivianKerr wrote:"linked ______ with _____ " is the expression here.

"and particularly of red wine" can be thought of as an appositive phrase since it's surrounded by commas. Meaning the sentence should still stand on its own if we were to delete it.

"THAT" introduces a relative clause which modifies the "report." The rest of the sentence simply describes the report and what it says.

If the sentence ended after "report" is would still make sense:

"Sale of wine declined..., but they began to grow again after the 1991 report."

Let's look at another example:

High heels went out of style in 1998, but they became popular again after a 2004 magazine article that linked the celebrity lifestyle with high heels.

B puts the incredible long prepositional phrase/relative clause in between the two noun/verb clauses.
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by VivianKerr » Tue Aug 02, 2011 8:28 am
I agree that it's awkward and ideally we'd like to know more about the report, so logically the next sentence would elaborate on the report, but the sentence IS grammatically correct.

"after a 1991 report" is a prepositional phrase describing the condition in which the sales began to rise.
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by viv_gmat » Wed Aug 03, 2011 4:42 am
My answer is A
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by thiyagu070787 » Wed Aug 03, 2011 9:03 pm
Please help me in knowing why B is wrong?
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by varun01 » Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:25 pm
B is wrong because I believe "them" should be "they" and "growing" is not the correct verb conjugation. It should be "grow"
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