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Like the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth, to gather information about its size and curvature of its surface, new observations have been made by astronomers that show with startling directness the large-scale geometry of the universe. (A) Like the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth, to gather information about its size and curvature of its surface, new observations have been made by astronomers (B) Like the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth for gathering information about its size and also the curvature of its surface, new observations have been made by astronomers (C) Similar to the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth, where they gathered information about its size and the curvature of its surface, astronomers have made new observations (D) Like the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth gathering information about its size and the curvature of its surface, astronomers have made new observations (E) Just as with the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth, gathering information about its size and curvature of the surface, astronomers have made new observations
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The original sentence has comparision issues. It compares the "great navigators" to "new observations" makes no sense. So A, B are out. In C , where incorrectly modifies "Earth" E has an incorrect idiom "Just as with" -> Just as X, so Y vdhawan1 wrote: Like the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth, to gather information about its size and curvature of its surface, new observations have been made by astronomers that show with startling directness the large-scale geometry of the universe.
(A) Like the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth, to gather information about its size and curvature of its surface, new observations have been made by astronomers
(B) Like the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth for gathering information about its size and also the curvature of its surface, new observations have been made by astronomers
(C) Similar to the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth, where they gathered information about its size and the curvature of its surface, astronomers have made new observations
(D) Like the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth gathering information about its size and the curvature of its surface, astronomers have made new observations
(E) Just as with the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth, gathering information about its size and curvature of the surface, astronomers have made new observations
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Re: Good sc question [#permalink]
01 Jul 2008, 03:22
straight D...right comparison between navigators and astronomers.
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Re: Good sc question [#permalink]
01 Jul 2008, 03:27
D - right comparison. like [he great navigators], [astronomers]
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Re: Like the great navigators who first sailed around the Earth, [#permalink]
28 Oct 2012, 00:25
Sorry for being late, but aren't the commas missing in option D. Without commas, it seems that the "earth was gathering information". I don't think that there is anything wrong with E. Verbal experts please comment on this.
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In D, there could have a comma after earth, making it clear that the navigators gather the information; But in GMAT, the correct choice need not always be the best chopcie but can just be the best of the choices. So D is good enoung, sinc others have more seriodus problesm. Let’s see E for example; Just as with the great navigators is a prepositional modifier. For the sake of a // comparison, the second leg must also be “with astronomers” . That is the reason E is out of the reckoning
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Okay. So among the poor choices, choose less poor. Btw Daagh, can you please provide me a link on all types of modifiers with examples. I can understand now that meaning issue in GMAT can be subsidized by understanding modifiers thoroughly.
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