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by Fernando diaz » Sat Aug 06, 2011 8:25 pm
Among developing nations, Latin American states are more likely than Asian nations to place power in the hands of communist-leaning chieftains
creating hostile environments for Western firms and discouraging aid groups from undertaking development initiatives, and prefer unconditional loans.

creating hostile environments for Western firms and discouraging aid groups from undertaking development initiatives, and prefer
creating hostile environments for Western firms, discouraging aid groups from undertaking development initiatives, and preferring
that create hostile environments for Western firms and discourage aid groups from undertaking development initiatives, and prefer
that create hostile environments for Western firms and discourage aid groups from undertaking development initiatives, preferring
that create hostile environments for Western firms, discouraging aid groups from undertaking development initiatives and preferring

Im doubtful about D because it uses that to modify chieftains, and I think it should be "who" instead.
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by patanjali.purpose » Sat Aug 06, 2011 11:07 pm
that does not modify 'chieftians' here, instead, modifies the act of placing power...

I was confused btn C & D, but use of 'and prefer' is appropriate.

It could means '...Asian nations to place power in the hands of communist..and to prefer...' or ' Latin American states are more likely than Asian nations to place power ...and prefer..'.

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by Frankenstein » Sun Aug 07, 2011 1:19 am
patanjali.purpose wrote:that does not modify 'chieftians' here, instead, modifies the act of placing power...
No. 'that' modifies chieftains only. Relative pronoun 'that' can be used for persons also.
Btw, if 'that' really refers to 'the act of placing power', first it is illogical and second the verb it follows should be singular(creates) and not create.
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by Fernando diaz » Sun Aug 07, 2011 5:43 pm
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patanjali.purpose wrote:that does not modify 'chieftians' here, instead, modifies the act of placing power...
No. 'that' modifies chieftains only. Relative pronoun 'that' can be used for persons also.
Btw, if 'that' really refers to 'the act of placing power', first it is illogical and second the verb it follows should be singular(creates) and not create.
Mmm as far as I know the GMAT says that "that" cannot be used to refer to people. Can an expert corroborate that??
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by sunnyjohn » Sun Aug 07, 2011 8:51 pm
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by garima99 » Sun Aug 07, 2011 9:44 pm
https://www.beatthegmat.com/rudimentary-t75744.html
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by Frankenstein » Wed Aug 10, 2011 4:47 am
Fernando diaz wrote: Mmm as far as I know the GMAT says that "that" cannot be used to refer to people. Can an expert corroborate that??
Hi,
I think you are right. Generally, 'that' can also be used to refer to people. But, MGMAT says there is a question in OG 10, in which usage of 'that' to refer to people is an error. So, GMAT doesn't accept 'that' to refer to people. But, in this question we have no other option and let's hope 'who' will be used in a real GMAT question.
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by abhizone » Wed Aug 10, 2011 7:55 am
IMHO, B is the correct answer.

First, I absolutely agree that 'that' must not be used for people and that 'who' is the appropriate choice. This leaves us with A and B.

Now A has a clear parallelism error as is uses 'prefer' when it should be 'preferring' and it also contains an extraneous and. The sentence only needs one 'and' before 'preferring'.
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by naveen451 » Wed Aug 10, 2011 9:23 am
IMO C
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by force5 » Wed Aug 10, 2011 12:54 pm
Fernando have you checked the question again? nothing seems to be correct here.
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by jonathan123456 » Wed Aug 10, 2011 4:30 pm
Fernando diaz wrote:Among developing nations, Latin American states are more likely than Asian nations to place power in the hands of communist-leaning chieftains
creating hostile environments for Western firms and discouraging aid groups from undertaking development initiatives, and prefer unconditional loans.

creating hostile environments for Western firms and discouraging aid groups from undertaking development initiatives, and prefer
creating hostile environments for Western firms, discouraging aid groups from undertaking development initiatives, and preferring
that create hostile environments for Western firms and discourage aid groups from undertaking development initiatives, and prefer
that create hostile environments for Western firms and discourage aid groups from undertaking development initiatives, preferring
that create hostile environments for Western firms, discouraging aid groups from undertaking development initiatives and preferring

Im doubtful about D because it uses that to modify chieftains, and I think it should be "who" instead.
WHats wrong with B. We should have a modifier which modifies "act of placing power" and not chieftans.
B does it and is also good with parallelism.
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by Fernando diaz » Wed Aug 10, 2011 7:37 pm
I agree with both of you that the answer should be B but still I want an expert opinion.. I choose that and i got it wrong.
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by Frankenstein » Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:34 pm
jonathan123456 wrote: WHats wrong with B. We should have a modifier which modifies "act of placing power" and not chieftans.
B does it and is also good with parallelism.
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Hi,
How is "act of placing power' modified in B? I don't think so. Why should prefer be parallel to create and discourage?
create and discourage are the things these chieftains are doing. So, they should be parallel. 'preferring' is not something they are doing and hence does not need to be parallel. preferring unconditional loans is modifying the previous clause and it states the result of the preceding clause.
D correctly uses modifiers but 'that' is a bit of concern in D.
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