The notion of gold being more expensive than

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The notion of gold being more expensive than ever happens to fit with a larger narrative which also does not square with the facts, namely, that inflation is an imminent threat.

A. of gold being more expensive than ever happens to fit with a larger narrative which also does not square with the facts, namely, that
B. that gold is more expensive as ever happens to fit with a larger narrative that also does not square with the facts, namely,
C. that gold is more expensive than ever happens to fit with a larger narrative that also does not square with the facts, namely, that
D. of gold being more expensive than ever happened to fit with a larger narrative that also did not square with the facts, namely, that
E. that gold is as expensive than ever happens to fit with a larger narrative that also do not square with the facts, namely, that

[spoiler]I have just one doubt i.e is the usage of comma + that correct????because what I am aware of is this we can't use that with a comma because of that being restrictive clause[/spoiler]
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by atulmangal » Fri May 20, 2011 10:04 am
Brother, COMMA + THAT is always wrong and i verified this concept from experts like Ron and @E-gmat.

Here, the thing u are looking at is NOT "COMMA + THAT".....look "namely" is acting as a modifier and a modifier appearing in between the sentence is always quoted in between COMMA's...in simple words if chop of the modifier than u also chop of the COMMA's too attached to it. so, for Op C, if u chop of the modifier "namely" then u chop off the COMMA's also. In sum u chop off

comma + namely + comma

after replacing the above u get, OP C:

The notion that gold is more expensive than ever happens to fit with a larger narrative that also does not square with the facts that inflation is an imminent threat.

So u see the green part, there is NO COMMA before THAT.

I hope this clear your doubt. BTW what's the OA???

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by aspirant2011 » Fri May 20, 2011 10:08 am
Thanks a lot Atul :-)....,yup the OA is C .....

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by mundasingh123 » Sat May 21, 2011 10:36 am
I understand that this question checks tense / Idiom ( notion of/that ) . what makes C better than a/ D
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by Jim@Grockit » Sun May 22, 2011 6:36 pm
mundasingh123 wrote:I understand that this question checks tense / Idiom ( notion of/that ) . what makes C better than a/ D
The past tenses of D lead a little strangely to the present-tense threat of inflation. If the past narrative was talking about a past imminent threat of inflation, it shouldn't be "is" in the non-underlined part . . . it should be was. If the past narrative were warning of a future imminent threat of inflation, it should be "would be" (since "would be" is the past tense of "will be").

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by champmag » Sun May 22, 2011 11:18 pm
+1 for C.

Thanx Atul for explaination of Comma+that+comma.

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by 786 » Mon May 23, 2011 12:40 am
Is notion of always incorrect ?

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by Jim@Grockit » Mon May 23, 2011 6:40 am
786 wrote:Is notion of always incorrect ?
It's always going to be wordy and therefore suspect on the GMAT. It wouldn't surprise me at all if it showed up in RC and CR questions. In addition, a common form of it is "the notion of X being Y", which has the dreaded "being" built in. As always, though, a wordy answer will be correct when all the other answers are grammatically incorrect.

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by 786 » Tue May 24, 2011 4:27 am
Thanks Jim .

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by mundasingh123 » Tue May 24, 2011 4:37 am
Jim@Grockit wrote:
786 wrote:Is notion of always incorrect ?
It's always going to be wordy and therefore suspect on the GMAT. It wouldn't surprise me at all if it showed up in RC and CR questions. In addition, a common form of it is "the notion of X being Y", which has the dreaded "being" built in. As always, though, a wordy answer will be correct when all the other answers are grammatically incorrect.
So This means The notion of is acceptable usage
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