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An embarrassment happening as an adolescent [#permalink] New post   30 Jan 2014, 06:24
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An embarrassment happening as an adolescent often prevents otherwise well-adjusted adults from feeling comfortable speaking in public.

happening as an adolescent
happening as adolescents
that happened as they were adolescents
that happened when they were adolescents
that had happened when adolescents

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As written, the sentence suggests that the embarrassments were an adolescent, not that the adults suffered embarrassments when they were adolescents, which is the meaning required here. Eliminate (A), (B) and (E) on this basis.

Because the necessary relationship between an occurrence in adolescence and an occurrence in adulthood is temporal, the conjunction as is incorrect in choice (C). The word when is demanded by this context, and so choice (D) is correct.


Hi, I found this correct answer awkward. I want to know what makes wrong choices wrong, please.
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Re: An embarrassment happening as an adolescent [#permalink] New post   30 Jan 2014, 06:54
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An embarrassment happening as an adolescent often prevents otherwise well-adjusted adults from feeling comfortable speaking in public.

happening as an adolescent
happening as adolescents
that happened as they were adolescents
that happened when they were adolescents
that had happened when adolescents

Hi, I found this correct answer awkward. I want to know what makes wrong choices wrong, please.



Hi,

I worked on it using POE. As per meaning of this sentence, Something happened in the past affects people till now.
In first and 2nd sentence use of happening is wrong. As embarrassment happened before, It is not happening right now. So A and B rejected.
In 3rd sentence use of as is wrong. we are talking about a situation so when is appropriate here.
4th option Correct Answer. It describe the situation of the past and they clearly qualifies the well-adjusted adults.
In 5th sentence when adolescents is not clear,adolescent refer to whoom.
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Re: An embarrassment happening as an adolescent [#permalink] New post   30 Jan 2014, 07:04
bhatiamanu05 wrote:
goodyear2013 wrote:
An embarrassment happening as an adolescent often prevents otherwise well-adjusted adults from feeling comfortable speaking in public.

happening as an adolescent
happening as adolescents
that happened as they were adolescents
that happened when they were adolescents
that had happened when adolescents

Hi, I found this correct answer awkward. I want to know what makes wrong choices wrong, please.



Hi,

I worked on it using POE. As per meaning of this sentence, Something happened in the past affects people till now.
In first and 2nd sentence use of happening is wrong. As embarrassment happened before, It is not happening right now. So A and B rejected.
In 3rd sentence use of as is wrong. we are talking about a situation so when is appropriate here.
4th option Correct Answer. It describe the situation of the past and they clearly qualifies the well-adjusted adults.
In 5th sentence when adolescents is not clear,adolescent refer to whoom.


For Option E : that had happened when adolescents

Moreover, the use of the past perfect is WRONG; In GMATLand, we use the past perfect only when we have two events that occured in the past and we have to show that an event occured before the other in time sequence. In this option, we don't need the past perfect at all ..
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Re: An embarrassment happening as an adolescent [#permalink] New post   10 Apr 2014, 12:01
goodyear2013 wrote:
An embarrassment happening as an adolescent often prevents otherwise well-adjusted adults from feeling comfortable speaking in public.

happening as an adolescent
happening as adolescents
that happened as they were adolescents
that happened when they were adolescents
that had happened when adolescents

Hi, I found this correct answer awkward. I want to know what makes wrong choices wrong, please.


A. An embarrassment happening as an adolescent -- meaning error. better version : An embarrassment happening at adolescent...
B. same error as in A.
C. "As they were" is setting hypothetical context, but sentence is talking about an actual past phase.
D. No error in this case.
E. had is not right, further when adolescents is also not fine.. bcz removal of had wont save this sentence.
e.g. An embarrassment that happened when adolescents often prevents otherwise well-adjusted adults from feeling comfortable speaking in public. overall meaning changed..
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