VeritasPrepBrian wrote:
Hey guys,
Good question, so before it falls off the bottom of the page let me throw my hat in the ring behind choice C, as well.
This one is a classic logical timeline question (usually those are pure verb tense, but other elements apply). In B (and E), for example, saying that "a major recession happened when Edison invented..." makes it seem as though those were simultaneous events, and not a cause-and-effect, logical timeline.
C avoids this by using the modifiers " , causing a major recession", so that the action of invention is what (eventually) causes the recession - it wasn't a simultaneous event.
Often times when questions involve multiple verb tenses, modifiers that use time (like "in 1878,") or the word "when", it's helpful to draw up a logical timeline in your mind so that you can eliminate choices that violate it.
Brian/ Instructors,
while the answer is C beyond doubt for various reasons and i had the timeline (like 1978 and invention caused recession) in mind while working on this sc , i cant seem to come to terms with Brian's explanation for striking off B and E
agree that "a major recession happened when Edison invented..." makes it seem as though those were simultaneous events ,
but B actually states a recession was CAUSED when the bulb was invented ( does'nt the use of caused suggest one caused the other? )
similarly in E when Edison invented the bulb, it (invention) created a recession.
Again i know gramatically these sentences have mistakes and can be knocked off, but im more eager to know how these two sentences portray the 2 events to be simultaneous events so that i can analyze how i am being deceived by the wordings in these sentences or where im faltering.
can somebody help!!