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by Blue_Skies » Fri May 31, 2013 5:37 pm
Even within the same study, people responded quite differently to acupuncture, some showing increased flexibility, while others did not.

a)some showing increased flexibility, while others did not.

b)with some showing increased flexibility, while others did not.

c) with some showing an increase in flexibility and others did not.

d)some showing an increase in flexibility, while others not.

e)with some showing increased flexibility and others not.
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by fulltapori » Fri May 31, 2013 8:17 pm
IMO B
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by snigdha1605 » Tue Jun 04, 2013 6:48 am
Blue_Skies wrote:Even within the same study, people responded quite differently to acupuncture, some showing increased flexibility, while others did not.

a)some showing increased flexibility, while others did not.

b)with some showing increased flexibility, while others did not.

c) with some showing an increase in flexibility and others did not.

d)some showing an increase in flexibility, while others not.

e)with some showing increased flexibility and others not.

IMO - E

In A,B,C 'did not' seems to be incorrect. Therefore eliminated.
Between D and E, I picked E because the 'with' here seems to be adding more information to the study presented.
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by vietmoi999 » Tue Jun 04, 2013 9:39 am
a hard one.

and is wrong, while is correct.

in B, while... need a previous clause. B is wrong. grammatical problem, not logic problem.

in C, "while other not" is wrong. we need "while others dit not". this is grammatical problem/rule prlblem

A is left
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by faraz_jeddah » Tue Jun 04, 2013 10:37 am
vietmoi999 wrote:a hard one.

and is wrong, while is correct.

in B, while... need a previous clause. B is wrong. grammatical problem, not logic problem.

in C, "while other not" is wrong. we need "while others dit not". this is grammatical problem/rule prlblem

A is left

Surely you can put in more effort while giving an explanation. :shock:

I will go with E

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by Gaurav 2013-fall » Wed Jun 05, 2013 1:50 am
imo A
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by jainpiyushjain » Wed Jun 05, 2013 6:55 am
Since the word showing needs to be repeated, I eliminated A, B, & C because did not cannot be followed by showing. I was confused between D & E and choose D because IMO while demonstrates contrast, the entire D phrase is an Apposition. However I may be wrong :(

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by Nachiket » Wed Jun 05, 2013 11:22 am
my pick D.
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by ThinkAdmit » Wed Jun 05, 2013 2:08 pm
Blue_Skies wrote:Even within the same study, people responded quite differently to acupuncture, some showing increased flexibility, while others did not.

a)some showing increased flexibility, while others did not.

b)with some showing increased flexibility, while others did not.

c) with some showing an increase in flexibility and others did not.

d)some showing an increase in flexibility, while others not.

e)with some showing increased flexibility and others not.
This is a parallelism case. We are comparing 2 ways in which people responded, by:
1. "showing" increased flexibility, and
2. "did" not

This seems awkward now doesn't it? This awkwardness is solved only by option D. IMO, D should be the right answer.
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