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Post subject: Re: SC : Humphry Davy  Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 2:37 am |
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vivek.bs2010 wrote: Jamie,
I got this question in my GMAT Prep last week.
The word 'found' in the sentence really vexed me at the time I read the question. I picked option (a) simply because it was the best option among the lot, but I wasted a lot of time trying to piece together a construction that would go with
"...a new chemistry that Davy hoped to find."
When to use 'found' vs 'find'? (I don't mean the obvious past/present sense) "found" in this case has nothing to do with the word "find". "found" here means "start". Totally different word than the one you're thinking of..
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Post subject: Re: SC : Humphry Davy Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 2:40 am |
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gmat.acer wrote: jnelson0612 wrote: susmod wrote: I apologize for reviving this old thread. The OA is A. How can A be correct? What does 'since Robert Boyle' mean? Shouldn't it be something like 'since Robert Boyle's time' or something like that? I think the implication is that Robert Boyle's work and discoveries were so significant that there was an era associated with his work that is known and obvious. Keep in mind, though, that this is not a real GMAT question and is not written to GMAT standards. So when we use 'since Robert Boyle' in this context to mean the famous era of his time, can we also use " following Robert Boyle" or " after Robert Boyle" as used in (B) & (C)? Or does it have to be 'since'? It has to be "since". Once we accept that Robert Boyle is important enough to warrant an era named after him, it is pretty clear from the sentence that the author is including the chemistry from that era in the analysis. "since" is the only one of these words that does this..
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Post subject: Re: SC : Humphry Davy Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 2:42 am |
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alisha.thakar wrote: Hi.
Is the idiom from Robert Boyle forward wrong or suspect?
It seems totally wrong to me.
Thanks. Be careful getting rid of idioms unless you're 100% sure. The best way to do this is to learn the idioms in our SC book - both correct and incorrect versions of each..
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Post subject: Re: SC : Humphry Davy Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 2:43 am |
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rohan1507 wrote: Hi,
Will the option E be correct if it is changed to "critiquing all the chemistry done since Robert Boyle as well as envisioning". This looks fine..
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Post subject: Re: SC : Humphry Davy Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 2:45 am |
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cyprus wrote: Hi Ron, Apologies for reviving an old thread. With regards to option B, can we not consider 'a Critique' (action noun?) and 'his envisioning of..' (complex gerund) as parallel as action nouns can parallel complex gerunds? (I can see why A is the correct answer and I would pick A given this question. But I'm trying to apply only parallelism to eliminate answer choices and I wonder if I'm wrong not eliminating choice B on account of parallelism). Much appreciate your feedback. Many thanks, DS Quote: Ron you don't have to make this distinction, though -- just notice that the right-hand structure starts with “HIS ...envisioning”, and notice that nothing on the other side is parallel to this construction. [/quote] B sounds like he is critiquing his own envisioning. This is the parallelism problem with this one.
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Post subject: Re: SC : Humphry Davy Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2011 3:27 pm |
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Thanks a lot. tim wrote: alisha.thakar wrote: Hi.
Is the idiom from Robert Boyle forward wrong or suspect?
It seems totally wrong to me.
Thanks. Be careful getting rid of idioms unless you're 100% sure. The best way to do this is to learn the idioms in our SC book - both correct and incorrect versions of each..
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Post subject: Re: SC : Humphry Davy Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 12:31 am |
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:-) Thanks Tim!
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