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War torn region of africa

by neha.patni » Fri Jul 30, 2010 2:34 am
Despite the influx of international aid to a particularly war-torn region of East Africa during the waning months of 2006, in early 2007, many indigenous people unable to find food left their home to travel west where other tribal groups historically experienced less difficulties producing food, water, and land.

A) their home to travel west where other tribal groups historically experienced less difficulties
B) home to travel west where other tribal groups historically experienced fewer difficulties
C) their home to travel west where other tribal groups historically experienced fewer difficulties
D) home to travel west in search of other tribal groups who historically had experienced fewer difficulties
E) home to travel west where other tribal groups historically had experienced fewer difficulties

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by paes » Fri Jul 30, 2010 2:38 am
IMO C

A : 'less'
D, E : 'usage of past perfect'

B : 'their' is missing.
so C is more close to the given choice.
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by outreach » Fri Jul 30, 2010 2:39 am
is it C?
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by clock60 » Fri Jul 30, 2010 3:05 am
hi guys
i am between B and C
but finally B
as it seems, that in C must be their homes
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by selango » Fri Jul 30, 2010 3:12 am
IMO C
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by kvcpk » Fri Jul 30, 2010 3:18 am
IMO C
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by indiantiger » Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:01 am
I think C, their is required
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by fitzgerald23 » Fri Jul 30, 2010 7:24 am
I also agree with C. I think you need their in the sentence to identify that that the people are leaving their specific home.
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by ptandon » Fri Jul 30, 2010 10:09 am
One more for C.
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by manishankar » Fri Jul 30, 2010 9:04 pm
I thought past perfect here made sense. People left their homes as other tribal groups HISTORICALLY had experienced fewer difficulties. The word historically refers to events that happened before 2006-07 when the africans thought of leaving their homes

Corect me if i am wrong.

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by adi_800 » Sat Jul 31, 2010 5:55 am
I don't think their is required..

Consider :
10 people left their home...it means 10 people were living in the same house...and they left that house...

But in original q...it is unrealistic to say that many people lived in the same home..
it would have been correct if the sentence says..
left their homeS...

I donno whether im correct in eliminating C for this reason... But I selected B...
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by neha.patni » Sat Jul 31, 2010 8:46 am
neha.patni wrote:Despite the influx of international aid to a particularly war-torn region of East Africa during the waning months of 2006, in early 2007, many indigenous people unable to find food left their home to travel west where other tribal groups historically experienced less difficulties producing food, water, and land.

A) their home to travel west where other tribal groups historically experienced less difficulties
B) home to travel west where other tribal groups historically experienced fewer difficulties
C) their home to travel west where other tribal groups historically experienced fewer difficulties
D) home to travel west in search of other tribal groups who historically had experienced fewer difficulties
E) home to travel west where other tribal groups historically had experienced fewer difficulties

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OA E...good job mani...but wanted to ask whether we should use their home or only home...
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by FightWithGMAT » Sat Jul 31, 2010 2:57 pm
neha.patni wrote:
neha.patni wrote:Despite the influx of international aid to a particularly war-torn region of East Africa during the waning months of 2006, in early 2007, many indigenous people unable to find food left their home to travel west where other tribal groups historically experienced less difficulties producing food, water, and land.

A) their home to travel west where other tribal groups historically experienced less difficulties
B) home to travel west where other tribal groups historically experienced fewer difficulties
C) their home to travel west where other tribal groups historically experienced fewer difficulties
D) home to travel west in search of other tribal groups who historically had experienced fewer difficulties
E) home to travel west where other tribal groups historically had experienced fewer difficulties

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OA E...good job mani...but wanted to ask whether we should use their home or only home...
We can easily eliminate A, C and D because of their weirdness.

I was stuck between B and E.

What is the role of word HISTORICALLY? does this word not tell that Y happened before any other event X mentioned in the sentence.

In general, words such as before, after, historically, previously, following.......many more....... do not imply, in first place, the sequence of any event???

Experts please help us in this.
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by GMATGuruNY » Sat Jul 31, 2010 3:23 pm
neha.patni wrote:Despite the influx of international aid to a particularly war-torn region of East Africa during the waning months of 2006, in early 2007, many indigenous people unable to find food left their home to travel west where other tribal groups historically experienced less difficulties producing food, water, and land.

A) their home to travel west where other tribal groups historically experienced less difficulties
B) home to travel west where other tribal groups historically experienced fewer difficulties
C) their home to travel west where other tribal groups historically experienced fewer difficulties
D) home to travel west in search of other tribal groups who historically had experienced fewer difficulties
E) home to travel west where other tribal groups historically had experienced fewer difficulties

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I was asked by PM to help with this question.

Quickest approach:

In A, less cannot be used to modify a countable noun such as difficulties. Eliminate A.
In D, who cannot be used to refer to a collective noun such as group. Eliminate D.
The adverb historically necessitates the use of the past perfect tense in order to make clear that the other tribes had experienced fewer difficulties prior to the time when the indigenous people left home. Eliminate B and C, which incorrectly use the simple past tense verb experienced.

The correct answer is E.

Another error: In A and C the phrase their home suggests that all the indigenous people were living in one single home. The other answers solve this issue by omitting the pronoun their: many indigenous people...left home.

Hope this helps!
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by pnk » Sat Jul 31, 2010 9:57 pm
GMATGuruNY wrote:
neha.patni wrote: I was asked by PM to help with this question.

Another error: In A and C the phrase their home suggests that all the indigenous people were living in one single home. The other answers solve this issue by omitting the pronoun their: many indigenous people...left home.

Hope this helps!
Hi Mitch,

'their' clearly refers to 'many' - could you elaborate 'how their homes means they are living in one single home'

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