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by GmatKiss » Thu Sep 15, 2011 11:06 am
Research during the past several decades on the nature of language and the processes of producing and understanding it have revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity.

(A) of producing and understanding it have revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity
(B) that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity
(C) by which it is produced and understood has revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity
(D) by which it is produced and understood have revealed great complexity rather than underlying simplicity
(E) by which one produces and understands it have revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity

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by zaarathelab » Thu Sep 15, 2011 11:42 am
GmatKiss wrote:Research during the past several decades on the nature of language and the processes of producing and understanding it have revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity.

(A) of producing and understanding it have revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity
(B) that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity
(C) by which it is produced and understood has revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity
(D) by which it is produced and understood have revealed great complexity rather than underlying simplicity
(E) by which one produces and understands it have revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity

OA after sometime!
Research is singular. We need HAS and not HAVE. Eliminate A, D,E

B) CORRECT (active voice) processes that produce.....
C) INCORRECT (wordy)

Couldn;t spot any other error
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by saketk » Thu Sep 15, 2011 9:34 pm
GmatKiss wrote:Research during the past several decades on the nature of language and the processes of producing and understanding it have revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity.

(A) of producing and understanding it have revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity
(B) that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity
(C) by which it is produced and understood has revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity
(D) by which it is produced and understood have revealed great complexity rather than underlying simplicity
(E) by which one produces and understands it have revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity

OA after sometime!


One more vote for option B.
we need 'has' here .. Eliminate option A, D and E. option C is wordy.
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by gunjan1208 » Thu Sep 15, 2011 9:50 pm
B is wrong since the Subject here is processes (see the sentence after conjunction and) and this should use have.

I shall go with A even when this is passive voice. It uses not X buy Y also.


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by VivianKerr » Fri Sep 16, 2011 7:42 am
"Research" is the subject, and "have revealed" is the verb. Everything between them can be mentally deleted as extraneous.

Error #1 - Subject/Verb disagreement. We need the singular "has".

Eliminate A, D, and E.

Let's look at the differences between B and C:

B: processes THAT produce and make it understandable..._____ instead of ______.
C: processes BY WHICH IT IS produced and understood...not ______ but ______.

They are very close here. I don't see anything specifically idiomatically correct, but I would now choose B because it is more actively constructed.

Error #2: Active Voice/Passive Voice

"by which it is..." is just a more wordy and passive way to say "that".

IMO: B
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by mundasingh123 » Fri Sep 16, 2011 8:23 am
VivianKerr wrote:"Research" is the subject, and "have revealed" is the verb. Everything between them can be mentally deleted as extraneous.

Error #1 - Subject/Verb disagreement. We need the singular "has".

Eliminate A, D, and E.

Let's look at the differences between B and C:

B: processes THAT produce and make it understandable..._____ instead of ______.
C: processes BY WHICH IT IS produced and understood...not ______ but ______.

They are very close here. I don't see anything specifically idiomatically correct, but I would now choose B because it is more actively constructed.

Error #2: Active Voice/Passive Voice

"by which it is..." is just a more wordy and passive way to say "that".

IMO: B
Isnt object of verb produce missing in B
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by 1947 » Fri Sep 16, 2011 10:05 am
produce is talking abt language so ccorrect
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by mundasingh123 » Fri Sep 16, 2011 10:30 am
1947 wrote:produce is talking abt language so ccorrect
which grammatical rule says that the object can be implied
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by abhimanyu.tanwar » Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:14 pm
GmatKiss wrote:Research during the past several decades on the nature of language and the processes of producing and understanding it have revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity.

(A) of producing and understanding it have revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity
(B) that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity
(C) by which it is produced and understood has revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity
(D) by which it is produced and understood have revealed great complexity rather than underlying simplicity
(E) by which one produces and understands it have revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity

OA after sometime!
C looks clearer than B.

(B) Research during the past several decades on the nature of language and the processes that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity.

it says "processes that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity". i am not sure whether processes can produce and make the language understandable.
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by navami » Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:35 pm
mundasingh123 wrote:
VivianKerr wrote:"Research" is the subject, and "have revealed" is the verb. Everything between them can be mentally deleted as extraneous.

Error #1 - Subject/Verb disagreement. We need the singular "has".

Eliminate A, D, and E.

Let's look at the differences between B and C:

B: processes THAT produce and make it understandable..._____ instead of ______.
C: processes BY WHICH IT IS produced and understood...not ______ but ______.

They are very close here. I don't see anything specifically idiomatically correct, but I would now choose B because it is more actively constructed.

Error #2: Active Voice/Passive Voice

"by which it is..." is just a more wordy and passive way to say "that".

IMO: B
Isnt object of verb produce missing in B
According to me

produce and make share the same object.
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by GmatKiss » Fri Sep 16, 2011 1:26 pm
OA is B
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by Juggernaut_86 » Fri Sep 16, 2011 5:32 pm
Hello Vivian,

B seems to be right since it is in the "Active" voice.

But doesn't the GMAT prefer "rather than" in place of "instead of"?

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by Juggernaut_86 » Fri Sep 16, 2011 5:33 pm
Hello Vivian,

B seems to be right since it is in the "Active" voice.

But doesn't the GMAT prefer "rather than" in place of "instead of"?

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by patanjali.purpose » Fri Sep 16, 2011 11:49 pm
GmatKiss wrote:Research during the past several decades on the nature of language and the processes of producing and understanding it have revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity.

(A) of producing and understanding it have revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity
(B) that produce and make it understandable has revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity
(C) by which it is produced and understood has revealed not underlying simplicity but great complexity
(D) by which it is produced and understood have revealed great complexity rather than underlying simplicity
(E) by which one produces and understands it have revealed great complexity instead of underlying simplicity

OA after sometime!
What is the difference between 'XX instead of YY' and 'Not XX but YY'?

Are they same or suggest different meaning?

Pls suggest
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by gunjan1208 » Sat Sep 17, 2011 1:13 am
I have a question:

"please clarify that object of the verb "produce" is missing here and also that the object can not be implied". I do not understand it and would like to know this rule. (Mundasingh123, Help!)

Thanks in Advance.
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