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Re: Set on Meaning part 4 [#permalink]
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I have already responded you  try to understand the whole sentence and what's going on
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Re: Set on Meaning part 4 [#permalink]
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carcass wrote: Marcab wrote: "to phrases" also intruduce prepositional phrases.
My response was A. But I read E in your second post No No sorry My fault you edited the answer in the second one. ok The answer cannot be A because stacey has improve considerable ability in literature and to learn Thats what I am saying. Just because of the presence of "in" on one side and "to" on other side doesn't breaks the parallelism rule. Note that on oth side of "and", prepositional phrases are used, which help us in order to correctly express the idea. Answer choice A does the same.
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Let me express what I get from the sentence. Stacy has considerable ability in literature. She also has considerable ability to learn. Both use prepositions. Note that "to" is used here as a preposition, and not as an infinitive.
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Re: Set on Meaning part 4 [#permalink]
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Hi carcass, can you post OE's for 8 and 9 ques. I feel we need BUT in 8 to show a change in the A's views
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05 Jan 2013, 12:14
Marcab wrote: Let me express what I get from the sentence.
Stacy has considerable ability in literature. She also has considerable ability to learn. Both use prepositions.
Note that "to" is used here as a preposition, and not as an infinitive. I agree to some extent. here the meaning is that the teacher says: she had shown something in 2 fields that she already known. In A seems that she knows literature but not foreign language, and on the latter she is still learning
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Re: Set on Meaning part 4 [#permalink]
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Quote: 2 During a conversation with Stacy’s parents, the teacher mentioned that Stacy
had shown considerable ability in literature and to learn foreign languages
(A) considerable ability in literature and to learn
(B) considerable ability in literature and that she could do it well in
(C) ability that was considerable in literature as well as in learning
(D) ability considerably in literature and in
(E) considerable ability in literature and in
Probably not something the GMAT want to test I ll list out the idiom problem In the GMAT Idiom world, able to>ability in>ability to ability to is pretty awkward. Also another thing is "ability to learn something" is in a way redundant in the same way as the following sentence I was able to shut the door. -Redundant (if there are no meaning problems and assuming I was not paralyzed  ) I shut the door. Pretty concise.
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revanth4gmat wrote: Hi carcass, can you post OE's for 8 and 9 ques. I feel we need BUT in 8 to show a change in the A's views OE 9 already posted check the previous post Here the eighth Official Answer (OA) – C Concepts Tested – Parallelism, Meaning, Run-on C gets the parallelism right (‘praise’ and ‘show’) and is the best answer. A - Breaks the parallelism by using ‘it’. Also it’s not clear who is the subject in the second clause after the comma B - The use of ‘rare’ as an adjective to modify ‘kindness’ distorts the meaning of the original sentence by suggesting that the academicians are actually showing a type of kindness (rare kindness) towards contrary theories. D - This is a run on sentence because a comma is used to connect two independent clauses E - Same as B
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revanth4gmat wrote: Hi carcass, can you post OE's for 8 and 9 ques. I feel we need BUT in 8 to show a change in the A's views Academicians tend to praise research that agrees with their own beliefs, and it is rare for kindness to be shown to contrary theories (A) beliefs, and it is rare for kindness to be shown (B) beliefs, with a rare kindness shown (C) beliefs, and rarely show kindness (D) beliefs, they are rarely kind (E) beliefs, but they show rare kindness Try to get the gist of the sentence. "And" is required here because on the whole, its the characteristic of the academicians to praise research that agrees with their beliefs and rarely show kindness to contrary theories. "And" here implies the two contrasting characteristics of the academicians.
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souvik101990 wrote: Quote: 2 During a conversation with Stacy’s parents, the teacher mentioned that Stacy
had shown considerable ability in literature and to learn foreign languages
(A) considerable ability in literature and to learn
(B) considerable ability in literature and that she could do it well in
(C) ability that was considerable in literature as well as in learning
(D) ability considerably in literature and in
(E) considerable ability in literature and in
Probably not something the GMAT want to test I ll list out the idiom problem In the GMAT Idiom world, able to>ability in>ability to ability to is pretty awkward. Also another thing is "ability to learn something" is in a way redundant in the same way as the following sentence I was able to shut the door. -Redundant (if there are no meaning problems and assuming I was not paralyzed ) I shut the door. Pretty concise. Hii Souvik. Why do you think that "I was able to shut the door" is redundant. IMO it depends on the context and the two sentences listed-with "able to" and without "able to"-imply different meaning. Consider this:- Though I was bleeding heavily, I was able to kickstart the bike. Now this- Though I was bleeding heavily, I kickstart the bike. The "able to" in the former helps to understand the implication of the preceding clause. Isn't that so?
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Re: Set on Meaning part 4 [#permalink]
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Yeah thats what I said in the brackets I was able to shut the door. -Redundant (if there are no meaning problems and assuming I was not paralyzed ) It indeed depends on the meaning! However, She showed considerable ability in learning foreign languages She showed considerable ability in foreign languages I would incline to the second one! Because considerable ability is also synonymous with the fact that she is not a pro and is learning. I would however use, She showed considerbale capability of foreign languages in the big bad GMAT world.
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lazy guys......! Some one too lazy has edited my post rather than creating his own:wink:
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hi carcass, will look forward to the fifth meaning set. Could u pls give the OE for 6th question,I was stuck b/w two options here and its the one I got wrong Posted from my mobile device 
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Carcass would you mind posting OEs of question 8 and 9?
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