SC 1000 #258 Verb tense/gerund question

[Osirus@VeritasPrep]

During her lecture the speaker used map to clarify directional terms, for not everyone in attendance was knowledgeable that winds are designated by the direction from which they come.

(A) for not everyone in attendance was knowledgeable
(B) for everyone in attendance did not know
(C) with everyone in attendance not knowing
(D) with everyone attending not knowledgeable
(E) for not everyone attending knew


OA E
In order for the OA to be correct wouldn't the answer need to read "for not everyone that was attending". Wouldn't you need to use the present continuous tense, and not just a simple gerund? As it is written now, the implications is that it is referring to the people that would be attending in the future. If that is the implication then wouldn't the "knew" be inappropriate?

[soumyopriyosaha]

During her lecture the speaker used map to clarify directional terms, for not everyone in attendance was knowledgeable that winds are designated by the direction from which they come.

(A) for not everyone in attendance was knowledgeable
(B) for everyone in attendance did not know
(C) with everyone in attendance not knowing
(D) with everyone attending not knowledgeable
(E) for not everyone attending knew


OA E

In order for the OA to be correct wouldn't the answer need to read "for not everyone that was attending". Wouldn't you need to use the present continuous tense, and not just a simple gerund? As it is written now, the implications is that it is referring to the people that would be attending in the future. If that is the implication then wouldn't the "knew" be inappropriate?

IMO E is the best of the answer choices. Here the use of the gerund "attending" means that the lecture is ongoing and that the participant's lack of knowledge is from past.
In A and B the use of "everyone in attendance" is awkward.
Also if we replace for with because only E makes sense.
POE is the best way to solve this I feel.

[Brent@GMATPrepNow]

During her lecture the speaker used map to clarify directional terms, for not everyone in attendance was knowledgeable that winds are designated by the direction from which they come.

(A) for not everyone in attendance was knowledgeable
(B) for everyone in attendance did not know
(C) with everyone in attendance not knowing
(D) with everyone attending not knowledgeable
(E) for not everyone attending knew


OA E
In order for the OA to be correct wouldn't the answer need to read "for not everyone that was attending". Wouldn't you need to use the present continuous tense, and not just a simple gerund? As it is written now, the implications is that it is referring to the people that would be attending in the future. If that is the implication then wouldn't the "knew" be inappropriate?

I believe that "attending" serves as an adjective to modify "everyone." We can remove it and we just have less information about who knew about winds. It doesn't affect the temporal (past/future/etc) aspect of the sentence.
E looks good to me.

[Osirus@VeritasPrep]

Many thanks, I appreciate the feedback.

[becnil]

Compared to A, E made the sentence more concise and direct. So, I went with E.