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by phelps » Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:14 pm
Most North Carolina ski resorts broadcast music onto the slopes; skiers can choose among hard rock, soft pop, and “beautiful music” slopes, there are no slopes without music.
(A) skiers can choose among hard rock, soft pop, and “beautiful music” slopes, there are
(B) because skiers can choose hard rock, soft pop, or “beautiful music,” there are
(C) however, skiers can choose among hard rock, soft pop, “beautiful music,” and
(D) although skiers can choose among hard rock, soft pop, and “beautiful music” slopes, there are
(E) skiers can choose among hard rock, soft pop, “beautiful music” slopes, but

OA D
whats wrong with A..can anyone explain please
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by Osirus@VeritasPrep » Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:20 pm
What's the source of this question?

A is wrong because a conjunction is needed. I don't understand how although is the proper conjunction instead of because.
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by vinayakdl » Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:21 pm
Since the author is trying to make a contradiction that even though you can choose between different music types there are none with any music...hence "but, although...etc" is required here.


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by vinayakdl » Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:24 pm
osirus0830 wrote:What's the source of this question?

A is wrong because a conjunction is needed. I don't understand how although is the proper conjunction instead of because.
Hi osirus0830

I think "because" is more suitable for causal. It wont make sense here..."because there are 3 slopes with music there is no slope without music..."

What do you think?

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by goelmohit2002 » Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:36 pm
phelps wrote: whats wrong with A..can anyone explain please
IMO A creates a run on sentence..in the second half after ";"

there two independent clauses are connected without any conjunction like "and", but etc..
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by phelps » Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:00 am
There should be an independent clause after semi colon...so starting a sentence with because wont make proper sense
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by perfectstranger » Sun Jul 19, 2009 10:29 am
guys could someone please explain why A is wrong ? I did not understand the sentence.
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by ajlcalbanese1 » Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:43 am
I don't understand why D can be the correct answer, it makes sense to me that A is the correct one.

D changes the meaning of the sentece, doesn't it?
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by goelmohit2002 » Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:08 pm
perfectstranger wrote:guys could someone please explain why A is wrong ? I did not understand the sentence.
In A there are two sentences:

S1: skiers can choose among hard rock, soft pop, and “beautiful music” slopes,
S2: there are no slopes without music.

But there is no cordinating conjunction in between...so it is creating a run on sentence.....
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