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by reply2spg » Wed Sep 22, 2010 6:00 pm
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Despite the influx of international aid to a particularly war-torn region of East Africa during the waning months of 2006, in early 2007, many indigenous people unable to find food left their home to travel west where other tribal groups historically experienced less difficulties producing food, water, and land.

A) their home to travel west where other tribal groups historically experienced less difficulties
B) home to travel west where other tribal groups historically experienced fewer difficulties
C) their home to travel west where other tribal groups historically experienced fewer difficulties
D) home to travel west in search of other tribal groups who historically had experienced fewer difficulties
E) home to travel west where other tribal groups historically had experienced fewer difficulties

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by pesfunk » Wed Sep 22, 2010 6:06 pm
Answer is E ?
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by reply2spg » Wed Sep 22, 2010 6:06 pm
Why you think so?
pesfunk wrote:Answer is B ?
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by reply2spg » Fri Sep 24, 2010 6:05 am
OA E
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by niksworth » Fri Sep 24, 2010 6:45 am
Since this sentence refers to two event in the past (movement of indigenous people of East Africa and experiencing of difficulties by tribals)

Thus use of past perfect is warranted. Only D and E satisfy this requirement.

D changes meaning.
The indigenous people of East Africa did not move in search of other tribal groups but to a place where these groups had faced less difficulty.

E is right.
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by mj78ind » Fri Sep 24, 2010 7:09 am
niksworth wrote:Since this sentence refers to two event in the past (movement of indigenous people of East Africa and experiencing of difficulties by tribals)

Thus use of past perfect is warranted. Only D and E satisfy this requirement.

D changes meaning.
The indigenous people of East Africa did not move in search of other tribal groups but to a place where these groups had faced less difficulty.

E is right.
Looks like C to me. I think a 'their' needs to be present in the sentence and at the same time, since the time is pretty clear with 'historically' a perfect tense is unwarranted hence C wins there too.......

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by niksworth » Fri Sep 24, 2010 7:35 am
mj78ind wrote:
Looks like C to me. I think a 'their' needs to be present in the sentence and at the same time, since the time is pretty clear with 'historically' a perfect tense is unwarranted hence C wins there too.......

OA please
OA is E. Check this link out.
https://www.platinumgmat.com/practice_gm ... ion_id=110
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by mj78ind » Fri Sep 24, 2010 8:53 am
niksworth wrote:
mj78ind wrote:
Looks like C to me. I think a 'their' needs to be present in the sentence and at the same time, since the time is pretty clear with 'historically' a perfect tense is unwarranted hence C wins there too.......

OA please
OA is E. Check this link out.
https://www.platinumgmat.com/practice_gm ... ion_id=110
@niksworth .........

I do not know .........the concept of 'had' as explained in the link does not add up for me. Historically pretty clearly ensures that the time sequence is identifiable thus a 'had' just seems like overkill. "To find food left home" seems a bit 'bumpy' and 'awkward' in transition as compared to 'left their home' ........

I would stick with C ....... and most probably get it wrong in the real thing :)
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by niksworth » Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:24 am
@mj78ind

You definitely have a point here. However, I have never been a fan of this particular rule. (leaving out had if the sequence of events is clear)

I forgot to mention a key point which I had spotted to rule out A and C.

What is meant by home in this sentence? Clearly it cannot mean the people's individual homes as that would require a plural homes. Since all options have singular home, this must mean a single home of all people, which would be East Africa.

Now replace home with East Africa in C.

-unable to find food left their home to travel west
-unable to find food left their East Africa to travel west - Doesn't make sense.

Do the same with E,

-unable to find food left home to travel west
-unable to find food left East Africa to travel west - Perfect.

What do you think about it?
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by mj78ind » Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:07 am
niksworth wrote:@mj78ind

You definitely have a point here. However, I have never been a fan of this particular rule. (leaving out had if the sequence of events is clear)

I forgot to mention a key point which I had spotted to rule out A and C.

What is meant by home in this sentence? Clearly it cannot mean the people's individual homes as that would require a plural homes. Since all options have singular home, this must mean a single home of all people, which would be East Africa.

Now replace home with East Africa in C.

-unable to find food left their home to travel west
-unable to find food left their East Africa to travel west - Doesn't make sense.

Do the same with E,

-unable to find food left home to travel west
-unable to find food left East Africa to travel west - Perfect.

What do you think about it?
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I think this question is a Pandora's box which has faulty design to boot :)

Say 20 Million lived in East Africa and they left their home and migrated to West Africa? Here all of them lived in one home (East Africa).......... in this case "their home" fits perfectly.

Also, I just want to say that homeland would be way better, and on an average a GMAT question should be way better than this with some tighter logic, this is just a loose question, which someone made up at 2 Am when he was about to doze off :)
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by niksworth » Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:37 am
Right. And we rest here.
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