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OG Among the Tsonga

by AbeNeedsAnswers » Thu Aug 17, 2017 7:46 pm

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Among the Tsonga, a Bantu-speaking group of tribes in southeastern Africa, dance teams represent their own chief at the court of each other, providing entertainment in return for food, drink, and lodging.

(A) the court of each other, providing entertainment in return for
(B) the court of another and provide entertainment in return for
(C) the court of the other, so as to provide entertainment as a return on
(D) each other's court, entertainment being provided in return for
(E) another's court and provide entertainment as a return on

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by elias.latour.apex » Tue Aug 22, 2017 2:38 am

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Sentence correction is best handled by reading the original sentence and looking for the errors that we know GMAT test writers are instructed to test for. In this case, the phrase "each other" is clearly incorrect. It is used when only two entities are involved and are performing a reciprocal action. In this case, we know that there are a large number of tribes involved. With this information, we can eliminate choices (A) and (D).

What differences do we find among the remaining three choices? One choice offer the phrase "in return for" whereas the others offer the phrase "as a return on." The first phrase means "in exchange for" whereas the second phrase means a gain or return on an investment of some sort. Are we talking about investments or are we talking about dancers providing entertainment in exchange for food, drink, and lodging? Clearly the second.
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by RBBmba@2014 » Fri Aug 31, 2018 4:04 am

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HI Verbal Experts,
Can you please share your analysis for this SC -- especially for Option [spoiler]A & B[/spoiler] ?
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by vietnam47 » Tue Jul 23, 2019 8:30 pm

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in choice A, "court of one another" is not grammatical. in english, there is no this pattern.
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