theCodeToGMAT wrote:Is the Answer [spoiler]{C}[/spoiler]???

Java_85 wrote:

theCodeToGMAT wrote:Is the Answer [spoiler]{C}[/spoiler]???

Yes, it is. I don't understand the verb's tense in C.

theCodeToGMAT wrote:

Java_85 wrote:

theCodeToGMAT wrote:Is the Answer [spoiler]{C}[/spoiler]???

Yes, it is. I don't understand the verb's tense in C.

A. that since sales of up to one-fourth of its stores are poor, they will be closed.

B. it is closing up to one-fourth of its stores, which accounted for its poor sales

C. it was closing up to one fourth of its stores because of poor sales.

D. to be closing, on account of poor sales, up to one-fourth of its stores.

E. having poor sales, such that up to one-fourth of its stores will be closed

{A} - INCORRECT; Wordy
{B} - INCORRECT; "its" seems to refer corp.
{C} -
{D} - INCORRECT; "on account of poor sales" within commas
{E} - INCORRECT; Awkward

I was stuck between C & D.. the problem is see in D was the inclusion of "on account of poor sales" within commas... It is not an optional text

A says to B : I was Driving
B says to C : "A" said he was driving --> So, "was" is OK

Mission2012 wrote:Is "announced to be" - an idiomatic construction??

[email protected] wrote:Hi All,

This SC contains something of a "style issue" with regards to the word "announced." While there are several ways to try to explain this, here's how I would explain it...

An announcement implies that a subject is going to do some type of activity.

eg The company announced that it would have a special sale (here the word "it" serves as the "subject" and "would have a special sale" serves as the "type of activity"). "Active Voice" also dictates that the subject come before the verb in the sentence.

Here, we have "Trans World Entertainment Corporation.....announced....." .....so what we'll see next is a reference to a subject and an activity.

Answers B and C provide a subject.
Answers A, D and E do not. Eliminate these options.

Between B and C, we can now look at the verb tenses. The verb "announced" is a past event, so we need to choose C.

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Rich

[email protected] wrote:Hi Mission2012,

You present an interesting example, which is more "conversational" than grammatically correct.

The grammatically correct sentence would be:

"The weather department announced that rain is likely to occur today." Here, "rain" is the subject and "occur" is the activity.

Even though your example is conversational, it does have a subject: the pronoun "it" and an activity ("would rain").

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