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[Wonder Boy]

Solve these 2  questions on sentence correction with proper explanation :

Question 1: The organic food industry has organized a successful grassroots campaign – using Web sites, public meetings, and also mass mailings – that have convinced the Department of Agriclture to change the proposed federal regulations for organically grown food.

 

(A) using Web sites, public meetings, and also mass mailings – that have convinced

(B) using Web sites, public meetings, and mass mailings – that has convinced

(C) by using Web sites, public meetings, and mass mailings – in convincing

(D) by the use of Web sites, public meetings, as well as mass mailings – that convinced

(E) which used Web sites, public meetings, and mass mailings – in convincing

 

Question 2 : Drawing on her roots in a society that has a strong tradition of story-telling and oral renditions of the past, Indian writer Suniti Namjoshi incorporates many types of literature into her writing: including historical texts, legends, and even nursery rhymes from both Indian as well as European sources.

 

A.writing: including historical texts, legends, and even nursery rhymes from both Indian as well as

B.writing: historical texts, legends, and even nursery rhymes from both Indian and

C.writing: these include historical texts, legends, and even nursery rhymes from both Indian and

D.writing, which includes historical texts, legends, and even nursery rhymes both from Indian as well as

E.writing that includes historical texts, legends, and even nursery rhymes both from Indian and

[Gaurav]

1. D
2. D

[Wonder Boy]

@gkm92 please post explanation for your answer too….

[SACHIN AHIRE]

1] C

2]C ( “both” and “as well as” can’t be use together)

[Tushar jain]

1.B(“a successful grassroots campaign is ” in parallel with “that has convinced”)

2.C(both as well as used together)

[Wonder Boy]

@gkm92, @sachire and @tusharjain

Question 1. Correct ans is ” B “

Why the other options are incorrect :

“A” : It should be that has convinced in parallel to organic food industry has organised.

 

“C” :  If you say “subject + clause + BY VERBing“, then “by VERBing” must explain HOW the main clause occurred. 

e.g. I prepared for the test by reviewing takeaways on the CAT forums.

note that the boldface clause describes HOW i prepared for the test.

Using this fact, choice (c) would mean that using websites, etc. was HOW the industry organized the campaign — in other words, they used the websites and public meetings to organize the campaign in the first place. that’s an incorrect meaning.

(the campaign ITSELF used these things; the correct modifier in (a) and (b) shows that relationship.)

 

“D” :  The construction “X, Y, as well as Z” simply doesn’t exist.  The only way to properly string three items in a list is “X, Y, and Z”.

Another way to figure out that this is wrong is to realize that “as well as …” is a MODIFIER, and thus can be stricken from the sentence without affecting the surrounding grammar.

that’s problematic: if you strike “as well as mass mailings” from (d), you get remaining words that clearly don’t work.

NOTE : “as well as” is NOT a replacement for “and”.

 

“E” :   incorrectly used modifier “in convincing”.

* if you say “subject + clause + IN VERBing“, then subject + clause must be an ACTUAL PART of the action of VERBing. 

e.g. I solved all the problems in TMH in preparing for the GMAT.

–> notice that solving the problems IS ACTUALLY PART OF preparing for the test.

choice (e) fails here, since organizing the campaign (the main clause) is not ACTUALLY PART OF convincing the government.

this is one of two problems with choice (e).

The other is incorrect verb tense. “which used” (simple past tense) shouldn’t be in a tense occurring prior to “has organized” (present perfect). This construction mistakenly suggests that the campaign “used X, Y, and Z” before it was even organized in the first place.

 

 

 

[Wonder Boy]

@gkm92, @sachire and @tusharjain

Question 2 : Correct ans is ” B ”

“A” : writing: including

“C” : writing: these include

When a colon serves to introduce a list, the list that follows the colon must be COMPLETE.

In contrast, forms of to include serve to introduce a PARTIAL LIST.

Thus, it is contradictory to employ a COLON (which serves to introduce a COMPLETE list) along with a form of to include (which serves to introduce a PARTIAL list).

Eliminate A and C.

 

D: writing, which includes

E: writing that includes

Here, the implication is that the WRITING includes historical texts.

Not the intended meaning.

Non-underlined portion: Suniti Namjoshi INCORPORATES many types of literature into her writing.

In other words, the author herself INCLUDES these types of literature when she writes.

Eliminate D and E.

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