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Astronomers studying the newly discovered star say that it provides [#permalink] New post   Updated on: 03 Dec 2019, 06:10
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Astronomers studying the newly discovered star say that it provides clues about our galaxy’s origin, that it may supply data about how fast our galaxy is expanding, and moreover it is perhaps the most distant star in the entire Milky Way.

(A) about how fast our galaxy is expanding, and moreover it is perhaps
(B) regarding the speed our galaxy expands at; moreover, they think it may be
(C) about how fast our galaxy expands and perhaps be
(D) on the galaxy’s expansion rate and perhaps
(E) about how fast our galaxy is expanding, and that it is perhaps
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Originally posted by WhyabloodyMBA on 10 Jul 2009, 13:01.
Last edited by Bunuel on 03 Dec 2019, 06:10, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: Astronomers studying the newly discovered star say that it provides [#permalink] New post   22 Feb 2010, 08:44
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Jasonlu1981 wrote:
I have a hard time to understand this structure: about + clause. I thought a clause can not follow the word "about".

Can anyone help to elaborate this grammar? Thanks.

You're right. Here in E we don't have clauses that begin with "about": Astronomers studying the newly discovered star say that it provides clues about our galaxy’s origin, that it may supply data about how fast our galaxy is expanding, and that it is perhaps the most distant star in the entire Milky Way.
We have subject (asrtonomers), verb (say) and 3 clauses that begin wit "that".
"About" here is an object of "clues" in the first that-clause and "data" in the second that-clause.
Answer E maintains a good parallel structure.

Hope it's clear... :)

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Astronomers studying the newly discovered star say that it provides clues about our galaxy’s origin, that it may supply data about how fast our galaxy is expanding, and moreover it is perhaps the most distant star in the entire Milky Way.

(A) about how fast our galaxy is expanding, and moreover it is perhaps
(B) regarding the speed our galaxy expands at; moreover, they think it may be
(C) about how fast our galaxy expands and perhaps be
(D) on the galaxy’s expansion rate and perhaps
(E) about how fast our galaxy is expanding, and that it is perhaps
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Re: Astronomers studying the newly discovered star say that it provides [#permalink] New post   10 Jul 2009, 13:44
I would go with 'E'

Astronomers say X,Y and Z
3 subclauses

Astronomers studying the newly discovered star say that it provides clues about our galaxy’s origin, that it may supply data about how fast our galaxy is expanding, and that it is perhaps the most distant star in the entire Milky Way.
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Re: Astronomers studying the newly discovered star say that it provides [#permalink] New post   22 Feb 2010, 08:08
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I have a hard time to understand this structure: about + clause. I thought a clause can not follow the word "about".

Can anyone help to elaborate this grammar? Thanks.
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Re: Astronomers studying the newly discovered star say that it provides [#permalink] New post   22 Feb 2010, 10:31
i believe the correct idiom can be both "supply data about" and "supply data on"... so either about or on can be correct... "supply data regarding" sounds a bit weird, but lets hold off on any splitting technique for now...

also noticed that the first two series of the list starts with "that"... so it must be true that the answer choice has to contain another "that" clause... obviously this would be E...
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Re: Astronomers studying the newly discovered star say that it provides [#permalink] New post   22 Feb 2010, 19:49
IMO E ..... even i feel it correct due to the parallel structure maintained by 'that'

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Jasonlu1981 wrote:
I have a hard time to understand this structure: about + clause. I thought a clause can not follow the word "about".

Can anyone help to elaborate this grammar? Thanks.

You're right. Here in E we don't have clauses that begin with "about": Astronomers studying the newly discovered star say that it provides clues about our galaxy’s origin, that it may supply data about how fast our galaxy is expanding, and that it is perhaps the most distant star in the entire Milky Way.
We have subject (asrtonomers), verb (say) and 3 clauses that begin wit "that".
"About" here is an object of "clues" in the first that-clause and "data" in the second that-clause.
Answer E maintains a good parallel structure.

Hope it's clear... :)

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Astronomers studying the newly discovered star say that it provides clues about our galaxy’s origin, that it may supply data about how fast our galaxy is expanding, and moreover it is perhaps the most distant star in the entire Milky Way.

(A) about how fast our galaxy is expanding, and moreover it is perhaps
(B) regarding the speed our galaxy expands at; moreover, they think it may be
(C) about how fast our galaxy expands and perhaps be
(D) on the galaxy’s expansion rate and perhaps
(E) about how fast our galaxy is expanding, and that it is perhaps
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Re: Astronomers studying the newly discovered star say that it provides [#permalink] New post   18 Apr 2014, 09:37
I got the correct answer ,but i would like to know the precise reason as to why B is wrong
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Re: Astronomers studying the newly discovered star say that it provides [#permalink] New post   26 Jul 2018, 10:21
adymehta29 wrote:
I got the correct answer ,but i would like to know the precise reason as to why B is wrong

B violates parallelism. Pronoun it is ambiguous in " they think it may be"
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Re: Astronomers studying the newly discovered star say that it provides [#permalink] New post   22 Aug 2018, 10:21
Can someone please explain all the answer choices in this question that why are right/wrong.

I chose A.
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Re: Astronomers studying the newly discovered star say that it provides [#permalink] New post   31 Aug 2018, 00:53
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For those wondering why the wrong answers are wrong, adalfu's post from back in 2010 covers it. If we start with "Astronomers say THAT X, THAT Y . . . ," then we need to have "AND THAT Z." Only E provides this, so all the others are wrong!
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Re: Astronomers studying the newly discovered star say that it provides [#permalink] New post   01 Sep 2019, 03:53
I’m confused with the meaning here. Does it say that this ‘star’ in question will provide data on the most distant star in the entire Milky Way galaxy (could be any other star) or this star is itself the most distant one?

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Re: Astronomers studying the newly discovered star say that it provides [#permalink] New post   02 Sep 2019, 00:20
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Shouryaawasthi wrote:
I’m confused with the meaning here. Does it say that this ‘star’ in question will provide data on the most distant star in the entire Milky Way galaxy (could be any other star) or this star is itself the most distant one?
Hi Shouryaawasthi,

There are three things that they "say" about the star:

Astronomers studying the newly discovered star say
(a) that it provides clues about our galaxy’s origin,
(b) that it may supply data about how fast our galaxy is expanding,
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(c) that it is perhaps the most distant star in the entire Milky Way.
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Re: Astronomers studying the newly discovered star say that it provides [#permalink] New post   14 Oct 2020, 19:18
Can anyone explain why choice "c" is wrong,
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Astronomers studying the newly discovered star say that it provides [#permalink] New post   20 Oct 2020, 02:05
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Astronomers studying the newly discovered star say that it provides clues about our galaxy’s origin, that it may supply data about how fast our galaxy is expanding, and moreover it is perhaps the most distant star in the entire Milky Way.

(A) about how fast our galaxy is expanding, and moreover it is perhaps Parallelism issue. "Astronomers...say that it X, that it Y and that it Z" should be the correct structure. Eliminate.

(B) regarding the speed our galaxy expands at; moreover, they think it may be Same parallelism issue as (A). Additionally, when talking about an ongoing event such as our galaxy's expansion, present continuous tense ("expanding") is the correct usage and not simple present tense ("expands"). Eliminate.

(C) about how fast our galaxy expands and perhaps be The two problems in (B) are repeated. Eliminate.

(D) on the galaxy’s expansion rate and perhaps Same parallelism issue as (A). Eliminate.

(E) about how fast our galaxy is expanding, and that it is perhaps Correct answer. Parallelism is maintained, present continuous tense is used and no new errors are introduced.

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Re: Astronomers studying the newly discovered star say that it provides [#permalink] New post   27 Apr 2022, 07:55
WhyabloodyMBA wrote:
Astronomers studying the newly discovered star say that it provides clues about our galaxy’s origin, that it may supply data about how fast our galaxy is expanding, and moreover it is perhaps the most distant star in the entire Milky Way.

(A) about how fast our galaxy is expanding, and moreover it is perhaps
(B) regarding the speed our galaxy expands at; moreover, they think it may be
(C) about how fast our galaxy expands and perhaps be
(D) on the galaxy’s expansion rate and perhaps
(E) about how fast our galaxy is expanding, and that it is perhaps


First thing we know about the sentence, "that it(the star) may supply data", contains the phrase. So if we see "and" as an option it should be parallel to "and that it(the start) something".

A, C, and D can be eliminated because they are not maintaining parallelism.

B is passive and the connector doesn't make sense in this instance

E is the most correct and maintains the parallelism mentioned above.
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