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by hector99 » Wed Sep 08, 2010 12:50 pm
However much United States voters may agree that there is waste in government and that the government as a whole spends beyond its means, it is difficult to find broad support for a movement toward a minimal state.

(A) However much United States voters may agree that
(B) Despite the agreement among United States voters to the fact
(C) Although United States voters agree
(D) Even though United States voters may agree
(E) There is agreement among United States voters that

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by RyanDark » Wed Sep 08, 2010 1:05 pm
IMO A.
This question needs parallelism:
However much United States voters may agree that there is waste in government and that the government as a whole spends beyond its means, it is difficult to find broad support for a movement toward a minimal state.

Only options which have THAT are A and E.
E is wrong because it creates comma splice.
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by Maciek » Wed Sep 08, 2010 1:53 pm
Hi!

Correct expressions are 'agreement on + noun' and 'agreement to + bare infinitive'.
Therefore, we should eliminate answer B.

Correct expressions are also 'agree to + bare infinitive', 'agree (up)on + noun' and 'agree that'

'However much' is correct idiom and means 'as much as'

Answers C and D are unparallel clauses. The last word should be 'that'

Answer E changes the meaning of the original sentence.

So, answer A is correct

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by ankurmit » Wed Sep 08, 2010 10:08 pm
IMO A
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by veenu08 » Sun Sep 01, 2013 8:32 pm
is much correct here in the sentence- however much united states voters ....

Here we are talking about voters so aren't they countable noun?

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by vinay1983 » Sun Sep 01, 2013 9:14 pm
veenu08 wrote:is much correct here in the sentence- however much united states voters ....

Here we are talking about voters so aren't they countable noun?

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by sana.noor » Mon Sep 02, 2013 5:50 am
B, C and D are out because they dont maintain a proper structure "that bla blah blah and that blah blah. only A and E maintain this.
now the next step is to choose between Agree and agreement
you and I may agree that gmat usually come up with difficult questions But you and I cannot do an agreement on that. similarly, voters may agree on some point but they don't do agreements. A is the winner. most of all, "much" in the sentence refer to agree not the numbers of voters.
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by vinay1983 » Mon Sep 02, 2013 6:46 am
sana.noor wrote:B, C and D are out because they dont maintain a proper structure "that bla blah blah and that blah blah. only A and E maintain this.
now the next step is to choose between Agree and agreement
you and I may agree that gmat usually come up with difficult questions But you and I cannot do an agreement on that. similarly, voters may agree on some point but they don't do agreements. A is the winner. most of all, "much" in the sentence refer to agree not the numbers of voters.
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