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Re: SC-Status of women [#permalink]
 15 Jun 2011, 18:15
C for me.. just wanted to you all to clarify something regarding the usage of despite and inspite of... I read somewhere (cant find the source) which said that there is a subtle difference between the usage of the two words.. Despite should follow something negative and then the contrasting positive..For ex. Despite the odds, India still managed to win the cup. Inspite of should follow something positive and then the contrasting negative..For ex. Inspite of having the best line up, S.A. did not win the cup. It did sound a bit vague and new to me..Please clarify.. Thanks
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18 Jun 2012, 04:44
After split , C& D
C -is concise and clear
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18 Jun 2012, 06:35
Straight C. Correct usage of Present perfect, which streamlines an action from the past into the present. Also, neat and concise. Cheers
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18 Jun 2012, 06:41
Like everyone I went for D as well.
But in retrospect, I think the subject "THE STATUS" can't take the conjugation has been. You can say the situation has been bad, but I have never read a sentence which went: "The status has been bad." (But this is just my grammatical gut feel talking)
The second reason would be concision like most people said. But I don't like the word concision because it gets abused BADLY in the SC forum. So, why is this concision preferred? Well my personal reason would be that between C and D the change is little. So, how does it matter whether you refer to the old status or not. If you are going to say that the status changed a HUGE deal (positively or negatively) since last year then it would make sense to highlight that, else why bother. So ,go with C.
By the way it has a very clear and the referent is The status.
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Re: SC-Status of women [#permalink]
18 Jun 2012, 21:01
suyash wrote: I dont understand what is wrong with the original sentence,And how is C correct choice.
The elections happened recently,hence the change(the status of women) now, are rightly compared with those that have happened in the last century in A.
Suppose the election happened in 2000(21st century) and when the statement was written was of say 2001 or 2002.
Hence the changes that have taken in women's status' are compared to the changes in the last century(till 1999).
A correctly states this fact, thereby maintaining the meaning of the sentence.
C on the contrary, distorts the meaning of the sentence, making one beleive that the elections that happened in this century has brought little impact on women's status in the last century, which is illogical.
If somebody can explain the flaw in my understanding, it would be really helpful. When we say "little has changed," the present perfect tense implies that the action started sometime in the past and it still continues on to this day. So we don't need to state the contrast because the situation has been the same since the last century to today. That's the reason why we're using present perfect. That's also the reason with D is incorrect. We can't have two things happening simultaneously.
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