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by anwarma » Wed Jun 11, 2008 8:51 am
The black hole has entered the popular imagination as an object too massive that neither light nor matter can escape its gravitational pull.

(A) too massive that neither light nor matter can escape its
(B) too massive for either allowing light or matter to escape its
(C) massive enough that either light or matter cannot escape their
(D) so massive that neither light nor matter could escape their
(E) so massive that neither light nor matter can escape its
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by anwarma » Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:10 am
Can someone Help, please?
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by loki.gmat » Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:45 am
i think the correct idiom is " so X that Y".

hence IMO E.

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by netigen » Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:47 am
Ans E

1. We need its because black hole is singular

that leaves us A,B and E

B is just awkward

Between A and E, E is better because "so massive" makes the part before that a dependent clause

correct as loki said also follows an idiom so X that Y
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by Almostthere » Thu Jun 12, 2008 7:54 pm
the other idiom is so x as to (be) y...doesn't apply to this one, but something to keep in mind
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