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Post subject: Prep Questions - Trans World Entertainment Corporation  Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:17 am |
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Trans World Entertainment Corporation, which owns the RecordTown and Saturday Matinee retail chains, announced that since sales of up to one-fourth of its stores are poor, they will be closed
A. that since sales of up to one-fourth of its stores are poor, they will be closed
B. it is closing up to one-fourth of its stores, which accounted for its poor sales
C. it was closing up to one fourth of its stores because of poor sales
D. to be closing, on account of poor sales, up to one-fourth of its stores
E. having poor sales, such that up to one-fourth of its stores will be closed
Can any expain why OA is C? Should we use "announce that" here?
Also, what's wrong with D? is "announce to be closing" correct or not? how about "on account of poor sales"?
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Post subject: Re: Prep Questions - Trans World Entertainment Corporation Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 6:01 am |
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Can anyone help on this?
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Post subject: Re: Prep Questions - Trans World Entertainment Corporation Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 8:15 am |
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C is better than D announced that is always correct.. after <to be closing> there is a modifier error also "on account of poor sales" is modifying what?Wrong Usage zhuyujun wrote: Trans World Entertainment Corporation, which owns the RecordTown and Saturday Matinee retail chains, announced that since sales of up to one-fourth of its stores are poor, they will be closed
A. that since sales of up to one-fourth of its stores are poor, they will be closed
B. it is closing up to one-fourth of its stores, which accounted for its poor sales
C. it was closing up to one fourth of its stores because of poor sales
D. to be closing, on account of poor sales, up to one-fourth of its stores
E. having poor sales, such that up to one-fourth of its stores will be closed
Can any expain why OA is C? Should we use "announce that" here?
Also, what's wrong with D? is "announce to be closing" correct or not? how about "on account of poor sales"?
Thanks!
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Post subject: Re: Prep Questions - Trans World Entertainment Corporation Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2009 10:34 pm |
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But in C it is only 'announced', not 'announced that', that's why I think C is out.
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Post subject: Re: Prep Questions - Trans World Entertainment Corporation Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 3:09 am |
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Gprep collects its Qs from the likes of NYT, The Economist related source:http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/08/business/company-briefs-029980.html year-1996 TRANS WORLD ENTERTAINMENT CORP., Albany, which owns the Record Town and Saturday Matinee retail chains, announced that it was closing up to one-fourth of its stores because of poor sales. The company closed 180 stores last year.
someone at BTG says announced can be used without that.
Read this http://www.thefreedictionary.com/announce:
EX: snowdrops announced the arrival of spring
Hope that helps!!
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Post subject: Re: Prep Questions - Trans World Entertainment Corporation Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:25 am |
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why wouldn't it announce that it "WILL BE CLOSING"......
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Post subject: Re: Prep Questions - Trans World Entertainment Corporation Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 8:15 pm |
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Instructor can you please shed some light on this question..
-- It is my understanding
A. Tense error
announced [past tense] ..are poor [present] they will be closed[future]
B. it is closing [implies that the process is on going -- present continuous ]
C. it was closing [past tense] -- agrees with announced
D. to be closing -- not sure what this one is, but it does not sound right
E. awkward sentence construction.
Again, the OA is C.
But I am not sure in the reasoning aspect of each choice
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Post subject: Re: Prep Questions - Trans World Entertainment Corporation Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 6:25 am |
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is this problem really from GMATPrep? it doesn't look like an official problem. you would want "that" here, as noted above. also, "it would be closing" would be better than "it was closing", since this was a future event at the time of the announcement. does anyone have a screen shot to prove that this problem is, indeed, official? -- Quote: EX: snowdrops announced the arrival of spring this is irrelevant to the question above, since "the arrival of spring" is a noun phrase, not a clause. the normal usage is X announced that CLAUSE
X announced NOUN/NOUN PHRASE
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Post subject: Re: Prep Questions - Trans World Entertainment Corporation Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2010 8:12 am |
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Oh this is an official problem indeed, I chose A, i have a screen shot but i can't figure out how to upload it here.
OA is C
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Post subject: Re: Prep Questions - Trans World Entertainment Corporation Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2010 3:29 pm |
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Is the problem correctly transcribed? For instance, is the word "that" actually part of the underline?
Can you please check every single word in the transcription, including the placement of the underline?
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Post subject: Re: Prep Questions - Trans World Entertainment Corporation Posted: Sun May 02, 2010 8:39 pm |
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I have a screen shot of the problem from GMATPREP. Please let me know how to attach the same.
I have the same doubt why OA is C.
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Post subject: Re: Prep Questions - Trans World Entertainment Corporation Posted: Sat May 08, 2010 8:58 pm |
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Bumping this up..this is a GMAT prep question..I selected "A".
I learnt that "Anounce" is what we call command word and should be used with that.
If somebody will tell me how I can put up a screen shot.
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Post subject: Re: Prep Questions - Trans World Entertainment Corporation Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 10:49 pm |
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hmm. ugly. the two complaints that I posted above still stand, but, as we state here quite often, we simply have to accept the fact that this problem is officially correct. ugh. in any case, although all of the answer choices are at least somewhat ugly, choice (c) is still the best of them -- and, apparently, gmac doesn't require that you use the word "that" between "announce" and a clause. to the posters on this thread -- it seems as though most of the complaints are about choice (c), but no one seems to have posted a choice that he/she thinks is better. did any of you think that one of the other choices was better? -- by the way: Quote: Bumping this up... this is not something you want to do. we answer these threads in strict order of time, from oldest to newest, so by "bumping" a thread you are actually moving it to last place in the queue.
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Post subject: Re: Prep Questions - Trans World Entertainment Corporation Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 1:41 pm |
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Hi Ron/Stacey,
Isn't there also a meaning issue with C?
The original sentence tries to convey a meaning that "one-fourth of the stores have demonstrated poor sales and those stores would be closed".
Choice C tends to state that "one-fourth of the stores would be closed because the company demontrated poor sales".
In choice C, there is no mention that only those stores that demonstrated poor sales would be closed.
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Post subject: Re: Prep Questions - Trans World Entertainment Corporation Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 2:54 pm |
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1) Don't sweat meaning till you've sorted out grammar. You'll probably never get to meaning in this question.
2) The only meaning requirement is that you preserve the original meaning of the sentence, where that meaning is coherent. In this case, the original is unambiguous, while the OA is ambiguous between "will close stores because those stores have poor sales," and "will close stores because the chain/company/industry/? has poor sales." That's a real loss, to be sure, but C doesn't contradict the original meaning.
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