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by rahulg83 » Thu Feb 19, 2009 7:04 pm
The republic of Philippines encompasses more than seven thousand islands, two of them with two thirds of its area.

A) two of them with two thirds of its area
B) two thirds of their area being in two of them
C) and its area is two thirds in two islands
D) two of them have two thirds of its area
E) which have two thirds of its area in two of them
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by x2suresh » Thu Feb 19, 2009 7:26 pm
rahulg83 wrote:The republic of Philippines encompasses more than seven thousand islands, two of them with two thirds of its area.

A) two of them with two thirds of its area
B) two thirds of their area being in two of them
C) and its area is two thirds in two islands
D) two of them have two thirds of its area
E) which have two thirds of its area in two of them
clearly between A and D..

Other options have modifer issues or distorts the orignal meaning.

encompasses .. "with" two thrids of its area -- good

"have" -- incorrect.

I get A.
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by umaa » Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:44 pm
IMO A.
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by marcusking » Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:54 am
I'm thinking B or D

I am leaning more towards B.
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by venusgarg » Fri Feb 20, 2009 11:09 am
I think its A because B is in Passive voice

So A
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Re: Philippines

by goelmohit2002 » Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:48 pm
x2suresh wrote:
rahulg83 wrote:The republic of Philippines encompasses more than seven thousand islands, two of them with two thirds of its area.

A) two of them with two thirds of its area
B) two thirds of their area being in two of them
C) and its area is two thirds in two islands
D) two of them have two thirds of its area
E) which have two thirds of its area in two of them
clearly between A and D..

Other options have modifer issues or distorts the orignal meaning.

encompasses .. "with" two thrids of its area -- good

"have" -- incorrect.

I get A.
Can somebody please elaborate a bit...What is wrong with "have" in "D" ?

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by kris_hansy » Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:49 pm
As someone else said in some other post, D is a run-on sentence
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by lilu » Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:08 pm
There would need to be a semicolon between islands and two in order for D to be correct.
I choose A as well
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by rseeker2 » Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:22 pm
Is it B?
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by schumi_gmat » Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:44 pm
IMO B

All other choices referrent of "its" is not clear.

A) two of them with two thirds of its area
B) two thirds of their area being in two of them Their is referring to islands here
C) and its area is two thirds in two islands
D) two of them have two thirds of its area ........Run on
E) which have two thirds of its area in two of them
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guess it is C

by kbtg » Fri Mar 20, 2009 12:41 am
My answer is C, I feel "its" modifies "the republic of Philippines" correctly. the person who posted the question, can you post the correct answer?
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by goelmohit2002 » Sun Mar 22, 2009 10:27 am
https://www.beatthegmat.com/have-vs-with ... tml#131584

Hope the above link will help.
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Re: Philippines

by ken3233 » Sun Mar 22, 2009 11:21 am
rahulg83 wrote:The republic of Philippines encompasses more than seven thousand islands, two of them with two thirds of its area.

A) two of them with two thirds of its area
B) two thirds of their area being in two of them
C) and its area is two thirds in two islands
D) two of them have two thirds of its area
E) which have two thirds of its area in two of them
I'm guessing that "A" is the answer, even though I feel a little uncomfortable with using "with" to emphasize "two thirds of its area". Another problem with "A" is that it uses two pronouns in succession ("them" and "it").

Nonetheless, I think the other answers are more problematic than "A".

"B" attachs the pronoun "them" at the end of the sentence, which I think is slightly confusing and awkward. "B" also strings together two pronouns -- "their" and "them" -- in a way which is even more graceless than the way that pronouns are used in "A".

"C" and "E" are far to awkward to qualify as grammatical answers. I reject "D" because it is phrased in such a way as to begin an entirely new sentence or sentence fragment, and it probably cannot be used without putting an "and" immediately after the comma.
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