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GMAT Prep-Tense question

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by arpita@gurome » Mon Sep 27, 2010 3:26 am
lokesh r wrote:Can someone explain me why is it wrong to choose E.


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The question is testing verb usage. The three women have received in the past and continue to receive support from labor. Thus we need to use present perfect to show something which continues from the past and still is happening.

This leaves options A and C on the table. C is better A has two issues - unqualifying is used incorrectly and the GMAT prefers not to use possessives as much as possible.

Now the specific question, E uses "are" which means they are getting support now but the past is discounted. Another issue is "support of" is better than "support by"

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by lokesh r » Mon Sep 27, 2010 12:55 pm
The question is

The three women, blah...blah..blah..., choose the tense.

Using this how does one gets to know women have received and continue to receive support of labour.
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by arpita@gurome » Mon Sep 27, 2010 4:39 pm
@lokesh.r - good point

Two things:
1. Look at the logic of the sentence the support has been provided consistently hence it has to start from the past, since one time support can not be consistent...........

2. This sentence has other errors apart from the tense issue, hence use them also to navigate to the correct answer.

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by lokesh r » Tue Sep 28, 2010 12:06 am
arpita@gurome wrote:@lokesh.r - good point

Two things:
1. Look at the logic of the sentence the support has been provided consistently hence it has to start from the past, since one time support can not be consistent...........

2. This sentence has other errors apart from the tense issue, hence use them also to navigate to the correct answer.

Hope this helps!!

Thanks a lot..this was useful conversation...one idiom goes into my list of idioms'support of' and i got to know usage of word consistent
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by e-GMAT » Tue Sep 28, 2010 8:56 am
Great discussion.
I would just like to add one more point against Choice E. Choice E also changes the intended meaning of the sentence:

Notice carefully that original choice states that 3 women have consistently received support. Thus here, "consistently" describes the action of "receiving".
Original Choice - consistently received support

Now in Choice E (and also Choice D), consistent describes the support instead of receive.
Incorrect Choice - received consistent support

So as you can see, there may be more than one ways to arrive at the correct answer. The key thing is that we need to find an error free choice that communicates the intended meaning of the original sentence.

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Payal
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