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by winniethepooh » Thu Aug 11, 2011 2:50 pm
The first trenches that were cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence for centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East that were arising simultaneously with but independently of the more celebrated city-states of southern Mesopotamia, in what is now southern Iraq.

A.that were cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence for centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East that were arising simultaneously with but

B.that were cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, yields strong evidence that centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East were arising simultaneously with but also

C.having been cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence that centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East were arising simultaneously but

D. cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, yields strong evidence of centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East arising simultaneously but also

E. cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence that centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East arose simultaneously with but


I have gone through all the previous threads which decided this question but haven't received an apt explanation.
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by missionGMATverbal » Thu Aug 11, 2011 3:22 pm
But what is your doubt in this question?

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by winniethepooh » Thu Aug 11, 2011 3:32 pm
Why is the right answer what it is?

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by phanideepak » Thu Aug 11, 2011 7:07 pm
The answer should be E

wrong tense in C

Plural subject trenches does not match with yields in B and D.

Progressive tense used in A is wrong. that were cut also shows passive tone E is more direct.

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by winniethepooh » Fri Aug 12, 2011 6:29 am
This is such a long sentence!
To read through the words and understand all the sentences and then check all tenses and Subject - verb agreement and then selecting an appropriate(In My Opinion) answer took me 2 minutes 50 seconds. This all just to realize my answer was wrong! I chose B.

All I want to know is, how do you cut through sentences and check only those agreements which you need to and answer appropriately in the least possible time, especially when sentences are so long?

I can't really afford to spend so long on an SC sentence in the GMAT.

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by GmatKiss » Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:48 am
[spoiler]IMO:D[/spoiler]

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by winniethepooh » Sat Aug 13, 2011 7:47 pm
OA:E

Can I get an experts insight into my query posted above?

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by ghettosquad » Sun Aug 14, 2011 4:05 am
First of all we have to choose "have yielded" rather than "yields" (first trenches - plural).
That leaves us with A, C and E.

Then, there are few options:

simultaneously with > simultaneously (because after "but" we have "independendtly of")

cut > that were cut, having been cut (more concise)

evidence that > evidence of/for

Am I right?

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by lunarpower » Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:05 pm
winniethepooh wrote:All I want to know is, how do you cut through sentences and check only those agreements which you need to and answer appropriately in the least possible time, especially when sentences are so long?

I can't really afford to spend so long on an SC sentence in the GMAT.
well, in a longer sentence, nothing really works any differently than it would in a shorter sentence -- there are just more words in the way. the analysis of any particular construction is the same.
if you have particular trouble with longer sentences, make sure that you are able to eliminate modifiers, adjectives, and adverbs from the sentences; even if the sentence is very long, its basic "skeleton" (what remains when these elements have been eliminated) should still be relatively short.
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by mundasingh123 » Wed Sep 07, 2011 12:18 pm
lunarpower wrote:
winniethepooh wrote:All I want to know is, how do you cut through sentences and check only those agreements which you need to and answer appropriately in the least possible time, especially when sentences are so long?

I can't really afford to spend so long on an SC sentence in the GMAT.
well, in a longer sentence, nothing really works any differently than it would in a shorter sentence -- there are just more words in the way. the analysis of any particular construction is the same.
if you have particular trouble with longer sentences, make sure that you are able to eliminate modifiers, adjectives, and adverbs from the sentences; even if the sentence is very long, its basic "skeleton" (what remains when these elements have been eliminated) should still be relatively short.
Hi ron could you please explain this SC
I Seek Explanations Not Answers

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by 1947 » Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:06 am
I have marked why choices except E are wrong.

A.that were cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence for centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East that were arising simultaneously with but

B.that were cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, yields strong evidence that centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East were arising simultaneously with but also

C.having been cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence that centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East were arising simultaneously but

D. cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, yields strong evidence of centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East arising simultaneously but also

E. cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence that centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East arose simultaneously with but
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by saketk » Thu Sep 08, 2011 11:17 am
In addition to what '1947' has posted above-- the use of "Evidence For" is unidiomatic in choice A.

'Evidence for' is used as a 'proof' or 'idea'... I just googled and found this example on the first hit--

"Provides evidence for the existence of God and the reliability of the Bible from scientific studies." --here you are asking for the proof of God's existence.

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