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mgmat - health and contamination

by acecoolan » Sun Nov 09, 2008 9:28 pm
The health commissioner said that the government had implemented strict measures to eradicate the contaminated food and, despite the recent illnesses, it will try to prevent the outbreak from recurring in the future.
a) it will try
b) that it tried
c) it had tried
d) it would have tried
e) that it would try
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by Jatinder » Sun Nov 09, 2008 11:07 pm
IMO E

not confident as the use of past perfect in the first part is pinching me.
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by raunekk » Sun Nov 09, 2008 11:59 pm
imo:A


it will try to prevent the outbreak from recurring in the future..



OA???
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by mals24 » Mon Nov 10, 2008 3:28 am
IMO E

The health commissioner said that the government and it will try are not parallel. You need to begin the second clause with "that"

So that narrows down to options B & E

B incorrectly uses the past tense when we need the future tense.
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by raunekk » Mon Nov 10, 2008 3:59 am
i think i made a mistake..

i think it has to be D...
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by acecoolan » Mon Nov 10, 2008 6:56 am
OA is 'E'
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by stop@800 » Mon Nov 10, 2008 7:40 am
acecoolan wrote:OA is 'E'
I think E is not correct, it would try is not making any sense to me.

IMO the best answer would be
that it will try

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Re: mgmat - health and contamination

by orel » Mon Nov 10, 2008 8:28 am
acecoolan wrote:The health commissioner said that the government had implemented strict measures to eradicate the contaminated food and, despite the recent illnesses, it will try to prevent the outbreak from recurring in the future.
a) it will try
b) that it tried
c) it had tried
d) it would have tried
e) that it would try
The health commissioner said that the government had implemented strict measures to eradicate the contaminated food and that it would try to prevent the outbreak from recurring in the future.

Should be E.
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by jeevan.Gk » Tue Nov 11, 2008 12:32 pm
I think its B.. Becos the non-underlined part is using past perfect "had" and hence there should be two past actions in sequence . B perfectly abides by that if you carefully interpret .

said that govt had......, and that it tried.. parallellism also fitting in .


Hope I am right .. Mr owner, wat is the answer
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by siddharth rastogi » Thu Aug 27, 2009 8:29 am
IMP ONE TO TRY.............
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by Fractal » Tue Sep 20, 2011 6:50 am
d) it would have tried

Can anybody explain, why "would have tried" is the wrong tense? or would this tense also be correct?

I thought that because of "had implemented" one have to use "would have tried". Otherwise I would have used "would try" if in the orginal sentence "implemented" (instead of "had implemented") were used.

Could anybody give me the framework (with some examples) for such questions?

thx a ton,
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by aspirant2011 » Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:04 am
Isn't the usage of comma + that wrong in option E?
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by parul9 » Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:14 am
I think it's A.

My reason:

The latter part of the statement after the underlined portion takes about preventing the outbreak in future.

So the choices narrow down b/w A and E, since none of the others quite fit.

Option E starts with "that". When we fir that in the sentence, it goes like this:
The HC said THAT the govt had implemented....contaminated food, and, despite the recent illnesses, "that it would try"...
I think "that" should have come with and and not after "despite recent illnesses" if at all.

But everything else about E looks better than A!
So, do correct me if I am wrong!


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