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by GmatKiss » Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:00 am
Affording strategic proximity to the Strait of Gibraltar, Morocco was also of interest to the French throughout the first half of the twentieth century because they assumed that if they did not hold it, their grip on Algeria was always insecure.

(A) if they did not hold it, their grip on Algeria was always insecure
(B) without it their grip on Algeria would never be secure
(C) their grip on Algeria was not ever secure if they did not hold it
(D) without that, they could never be secure about their grip on Algeria
(E) never would their grip on Algeria be secure if they did not hold it

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by sunilrawat » Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:16 am
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by GmatKiss » Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:19 am
sunilrawat wrote:B
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by sunilrawat » Mon Sep 19, 2011 5:36 am
GmatKiss wrote:Affording strategic proximity to the Strait of Gibraltar, Morocco was also of interest to the French throughout the first half of the twentieth century because they assumed that if they did not hold it, their grip on Algeria was always insecure.

(A) if they did not hold it, their grip on Algeria was always insecure should be would
(B) without it their grip on Algeria would never be secure
(C) their grip on Algeria was not ever secure if they did not hold it was should be would and 'it' is ambigous
(D) without that, they could never be secure about their grip on Algeria 'that' should be 'it'
(E) never would their grip on Algeria be secure if they did not hold it wordy

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by GmatKiss » Tue Sep 20, 2011 10:56 am
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by GMATGuruNY » Tue Sep 20, 2011 11:46 am
GmatKiss wrote:Affording strategic proximity to the Strait of Gibraltar, Morocco was also of interest to the French throughout the first half of the twentieth century because they assumed that if they did not hold it, their grip on Algeria was always insecure.

(A) if they did not hold it, their grip on Algeria was always insecure
(B) without it their grip on Algeria would never be secure
(C) their grip on Algeria was not ever secure if they did not hold it
(D) without that, they could never be secure about their grip on Algeria
(E) never would their grip on Algeria be secure if they did not hold it

What's your pick!
In A and C, was is not the correct tense. Since the sentence is discussing a conditional situation, the tense needed is would. Eliminate A and C.

In D, secure about is not idiomatic. Eliminate D.

In E, it seems to refer to Algeria (the closest noun), but the intended meaning of the sentence is that the French needed to hold onto MOROCCO. Eliminate E.

The correct answer is B.
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