During the Great Depression, industrial output fell by nearly fifty percent from its peak in 1929 down to its nadir in 1933.
* Fell from X to Y implies X and Y to be parallel
* moreover, fell and down are same hence redundant
* nearly by fifty percent should modify fell --> more the modifier nearer to the noun better(A) During the Great Depression, industrial output fell by nearly fifty percent from its peak in 1929 down to its nadir in 1933.
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fell and down have a redundant usage INCORRECT(B) During the Great Depression, industrial output fell by nearly fifty percent from its peak in 1929 to its nadir in 1933.
(C) At the time of the Great Depression, industrial output fell by almost fifty percent from its 1929 peak down to its 1933 nadir.
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fell and down have a redundant usage INCORRECT(D) At the time of the Great Depression, industrial output fell from its peak in 1929, by nearly fifty percent, to it nadir in 1933.
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X and Y not parallel because of the usage of "it" instead of its.(E) During the Great Depression, industrial output fell from its peak in 1929 to its nadir in 1933 by nearly fifty percent.
in B and E , B is better because the modifier is closer to the noun.The Best source to practice Verbal is only
OG questions and no one else. So practice only Official questions from GMAC like
verbal og ,
OG and
verbal OG supplements rather even attempting SC1000 and or any other from any other source.
SC1000 question bank is not authentic for
OG questions and it also has many wrong answers.
If you have already completed all of them do them again try to find more than one reason to solve the SC questions.