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Post subject: The health commissioner said - MGMAT Qtn  Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 3:45 pm |
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The health commissioner said that the government had implemented strict measures to eradicate the contaminated food and, despite the recent illnesses, it will try to prevent the outbreak from recurring in the future.
it will try
that it tried
it had tried
it would have tried
that it would try
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Official answer is E.
I marked A because the phrase 'despite the recent illnesses' with E somehow didn't makse sense to me.
I definitely missed the parallel.
Please help me pon this......
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Post subject: Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 6:15 pm |
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The prepositional phrase "despite the recent illnesses" is an adverbial modifier describing that the government would still try to prevent future outbreaks without being deterred by the recent outbreaks. The presence of this phrase does not suggest that a simple future tense (as in choice A) makes more sense. We need a tense that describes a future action stated in the past. That's why "would try" in choice E fits the bill.
Here's an example:
The quarterback said, despite his recent successful season, that he would retire.
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Post subject: Re: The health commissioner said - MGMAT Qtn Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 1:02 am |
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The health commissioner said that the government had implemented strict measures to eradicate the contaminated food and, despite the recent illnesses, it would try to prevent the outbreak from reccurring in the future.
Is despite a conjuction ?
Wont this sentence "it would try to prevent the outbreak from reccurring in the future." be a run on if it is not ?
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Post subject: Re: The health commissioner said - MGMAT Qtn Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 1:24 pm |
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No, "despite" is not a conjunction. "And" is a conjunction. "And" also indicates that parallelism is required.
The health commissioner said that the government had implemented strict measures to eradicate the contaminated food and it would try to prevent the outbreak from reccurring in the future.
The health commissioner said that X [a clause] and (that) Y (another clause).
Both clauses are things that the health commissioner said. Further, both clauses start with nouns - in particular, nouns that are the subjects of their respective clauses. Finally, the subject "it" in the second parallel clause is referring to the subject "government" in the first parallel clause. (It's not 100% required for the pronoun to refer specifically to the subject in the first clause, but when it does, that's extra-nice parallelism. :)
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Post subject: Re: The health commissioner said - MGMAT Qtn Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 10:37 pm |
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Thanks for the excellent explanation.I guess i had not turned on the feature that says send me a mail when there is activity in this thread.
Now i know it exsists.
I still get a feeling that gmat only uses "Recent" when it is indicating present tense just as it uses "since" to indicate present perfect.
Can you think of any official questions that use "Recent" in the context of past.Because I am training myself to think the "gmat Way" .And my (under construction) Radar indicated me to take present as soon as i saw "recent"
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Post subject: Re: The health commissioner said - MGMAT Qtn Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 2:22 am |
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I’m not sure I understand your question. In this problem, “recent” is definitely NOT being used to indicate present tense. Can you clarify a little better?
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Post subject: Re: The health commissioner said - MGMAT Qtn Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 11:16 pm |
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Hi Tim
I was just saying GMAT uses certain keywords to indicate cetain things.
For example if i see "since" in a sentence correction question and if the question is testing verb tense then i will assume the sentence is in present perfect tense.It is not that i go for it blindly but i will start thinking in that context.
Similarly I think GMAT uses "Recent" to indicate present .I just wanted to know if thre are any official questions that have "Recent" used in the past.
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Post subject: Re: The health commissioner said - MGMAT Qtn Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 6:10 am |
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i can't think of any specific examples off the top of my head, but the only way i could see "recent" being used together with simple past tense would be a sentence such as this:
"a recent study indicated that ..."
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Post subject: Re: The health commissioner said - MGMAT Qtn Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 2:50 pm |
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is it mandatory to use "that" in the second part of the sentence to make it parallel?
also, is it possible to use different tenses in a parallel structure as above (i.e. had implemented vs. would try)?
Thanks in advance
Sherif
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Post subject: Re: The health commissioner said - MGMAT Qtn Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 10:15 am |
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In this case, "that" is required in order to prevent ambiguity. As for verbs, they do not have to be in the same tense to be parallel..
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