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by maihuna » Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:09 am
As Hurricane Hugo approached the Atlantic coast,
it increased dramatically in strength, becoming the
tenth most intense hurricane to hit the United States
mainland, and was the most frightening and most intense since Camille in 1969.

(A) most intense since Camille in 1969
(B) most intense after Camille in 1969
(C) the most intense since Camille of 1969
(D) the most intense after 1969, which had Camille
(E) since 1969 and Camille, the most intense
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by sreak1089 » Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:24 am
IMO answer is C
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by maihuna » Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:26 am
sreak1089 wrote:IMO answer is C
nope no way, until someone points out the structural issues with non underline part I have tweaked the Q from OG to trick majority of the test takers.
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by scoobydooby » Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:39 am
the "was" in non underlined portion is unecessary.
also we need a "the" before most intense since Camille for the superlative.

the form is "becoming x and y", x and y must be parallel in form


A seems best.
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by cbenk121 » Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:39 pm
maihuna wrote:
sreak1089 wrote:IMO answer is C
nope no way, until someone points out the structural issues with non underline part I have tweaked the Q from OG to trick majority of the test takers.
I was thinking (C), because of the paralleism, but the "of" seemed kind of weird, because Camille really isn't from 1969, it happened during 1969.

My gut says (A), though I'm not far enough along in my SC studies to explain exactly why :P.
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by umaa » Tue Oct 06, 2009 1:41 pm
But don't you think it should be "the most intense" for parallelism?
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by scoobydooby » Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:55 pm
umaa, yes i think we need "the most intense" for parallelism. guess none of the choices are supoosed to be correct as is - the original poster claims to have tweaked the question to trick/trap us!
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by aanchal_2009 » Wed Oct 07, 2009 12:36 am
Since refers to continuation so A, C and E out.

Left with B & D
I go with D
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by riteshbindal » Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:05 am
B IMO.
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by enniguy » Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:24 am
A for me
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by vivekjaiswal » Wed Oct 07, 2009 2:42 am
I would go with B.
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by chykie » Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:00 am
A for me.
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by maihuna » Wed Oct 07, 2009 9:16 am
scoobydooby wrote:umaa, yes i think we need "the most intense" for parallelism. guess none of the choices are supoosed to be correct as is - the original poster claims to have tweaked the question to trick/trap us!
Uimma, scooby,

Yes I did tweak it. The idea was to show that the second the is *not necessary* when both words are going to modify in a similar fashion. So In "the most frightening and most intense since Camille in 1969" the second the can be dropped without broking parallelism. I made the choice having the repeated but change to an incorrect preposition of, while the situation requires A, i.e. in.

so A will be the OA for this Q.

Take away: I am not sure, just thought of tweaking the Q based on OG explanation for option C for this Q. Please see OG explanation for option C for this Q to see how the second the can be dropped.h
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by ershovici » Thu Oct 08, 2009 2:48 am
The answer si C
Firts of all since the 1969 there were a lot of them, so we should choose the most intence, A,B,E are out.
Second after 1969, which had Camile is wrong because since 1969 corectly indicates the time period.
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by vaibhav.iit2002 » Wed Oct 14, 2009 8:31 pm
Why C and not A?
is it bcoz of 'the most' or 'of 1969'?
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