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The university library offers most of the resources Ronald will need. Except for Spanish translations of certain books, which he will have to request from a neighboring university.

A) need. Except for Spanish translations of certain books, which he
B) need, except for Spanish translations of certain books, which he
C) need, accept for Spanish translations of certain books, which he
D) need, with the exception of certain Spanish translations of books which he
E) need, but there are few books in Spanish which he

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Originally posted by zest4mba on 08 Aug 2010, 20:15.
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Re: The university library offers most of the resources Ronald [#permalink]

08 Aug 2010, 21:38

* need. Except for Spanish translations of certain books, which he
-- The statement should be a single statement with pause before 'except'. Hence A is an incorrect answer choice.

* need, except for Spanish translations of certain books, which he
-- 'except for Spanish translations of certain books' clause contains no subject. Hence B is an incorrect answer choice.

* need, accept for Spanish translations of certain books, which he
-- 'accept' wrong usage of word. Hence C cannot be a correct answer choice.

* need, with the exception of certain Spanish translations of books which he
-- Correct usage of words, concise and not awkward. Hence D is a correct answer choice.

* need, but there are few books in Spanish which he
-- 'but' is unnecessarily creating a condition, making the clause awkward. Hence E cannot be a correct answer choice.

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Re: The university library offers most of the resources Ronald [#permalink]

08 Aug 2010, 22:10

D is too wordy to be the correct answer.

Plus "which" without comma is almost wrong.

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Re: The university library offers most of the resources Ronald [#permalink]

09 Aug 2010, 08:56

zest4mba wrote:

The university library offers most of the resources Ronald will need. Except for Spanish translations of certain books, which he will have to request from a neighboring university.

* need. Except for Spanish translations of certain books, which he
* need, except for Spanish translations of certain books, which he
* need, accept for Spanish translations of certain books, which he
* need, with the exception of certain Spanish translations of books which he
* need, but there are few books in Spanish which he

which one is correct and why

I go with B. "Except for" is a correct idiom.

Can't be believe it's D. D changes the meaning of the original sentence, "certain" modifies books in the original sentence. There are many books in the library, but needs Spanish tranlations of certain ones. But D makes it sound like there are many different Spanish translations of some books, written by different authors or published by different editors, for example, and we he needs only those that are written or published by certain ones. See how D changes the meaning. D is too much of a meaning change to ever be a right answer on GMAT.

Plus, B is much less wordy.

What's the source.

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Re: The university library offers most of the resources Ronald [#permalink]

09 Aug 2010, 10:25

what is the source of this question?
It seems not a typical GMAT question. Usually, a GMAT question is conformed by just one sentence, this is not the case.

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Re: The university library offers most of the resources Ronald [#permalink]

10 Aug 2010, 04:02

I agree with zest4mba dude....

D modifies the meaning certain which modifies books is shifted to spanish translations, Also when you say the clause in B does not have a subject, I don't know how strong or right is this objection to disqualify the option.

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Re: The university library offers most of the resources Ronald [#permalink]

11 Aug 2010, 06:12

for sure B should be answer , except for(modifies the entire clause)

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Re: The university library offers most of the resources Ronald [#permalink]

11 Aug 2010, 07:30

B should be correct, D does not have right usage of which

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Re: The university library offers most of the resources Ronald [#permalink]

17 Sep 2010, 02:15

This question is in a Gmat-club Tests and the answer is B, not D

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Re: The university library offers most of the resources Ronald [#permalink]

17 Sep 2010, 02:53

Dude... don't scare us like this!

D says - certain spanish translations of books. that is not correct. this means that he needs some variety of spanish translations (may be spanish and some of its dialects).

We need spanish translations of certain books.

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Re: The university library offers most of the resources Ronald [#permalink]

17 Sep 2010, 06:33

are both 'except for' and 'with the exception of' correct in english?

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Re: The university library offers most of the resources Ronald [#permalink]

28 May 2012, 11:37

Confused with B and E :

please explain why E is incorrect..

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Re: The university library offers most of the resources Ronald [#permalink]

01 Jun 2012, 00:01

B is correct... below is the link
except-for-idiom-59075.html

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Re: The university library offers most of the resources Ronald [#permalink]

02 Jun 2012, 02:25

Phewww..marked B but got scared after looking at OA..going with the majority I hope my answer is correct~!~

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Re: The university library offers most of the resources Ronald [#permalink]

24 Jan 2013, 05:47

I see two issues with option:

option D:
1] "which" clause is an essential clause that adds certainity to "certain books" that "he will have to request"
2] " with the exception of " is wordy and could be replaced with "except"

option B:
1] "which" clause is an non essential clause and it conflicts with "he will have to request"
2] " except of " is used concisely

I am not sure what should take priority here?
1] correct usage over wordiness as in D
2] modifying the sentence to make the which clause non essential (seems awkward as in option B) and use "except"( concise form)

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Re: The university library offers most of the resources Ronald [#permalink]

24 Jan 2014, 16:38

B is the right answer

a. "except" is a conjunction and rightly used to connect two independent clauses.
b. " with" is a proposition and a propostion can not connect two independent clauses.

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Re: The university library offers most of the resources Ronald [#permalink]

15 Dec 2015, 08:44

A, B and C all have the same mistake.
The "which" is not used properly, it refers back to books, instead of the spanish translations.

E changes the meaning, its not the spanish books, its the TRANSLATIONS

Therefore, the most grammatically correct is the letter D

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Re: The university library offers most of the resources Ronald [#permalink]

08 Apr 2017, 10:47

Hello expert, Is "except for" a wrong idiom usage ?

If so, then how will come to know all about correct idiom usage ?

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Re: The university library offers most of the resources Ronald [#permalink]

09 Apr 2017, 09:36

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VKat wrote:

Hello expert, Is "except for" a wrong idiom usage ?

If so, then how will come to know all about correct idiom usage ?

"Except for" is correct. You will need to memorize a list of idioms from a good SC guide such as Manhattan SC guide.

I do not see any reason to eliminate B. On the other hand, D is surely wrong because "certain Spanish translations" does not make sense.

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