aditya8062 wrote:
hi mike
firstly Thanks for penning your thoughts. i appreciate your point regarding "has risen and will continue to rise". i feel that if i accept C as answer then somewhere the original intent (the one in option A) gets changed. don't you think that such a change in meaning in not acceptable
i would also like to point out that this SC is from
MANHATTAN gmatDear
aditya8062,
Ah, yes! I did a websearch, and so it is a
MGMAT CAT question. It's funny: I was inclined not to give it the benefit of the doubt because it was labeled "self-made" and because of all the punctuation mistakes. Those punctuation mistakes make anything look of poorer quality.
Logically, "
will continue to rise" means that the rise was happening in the past and will happen in the future. Past and future are covered.
Ordinarily, including more words, words that don't add to the logical meaning, is redundant. This is a rare exception in which the phrase with the extra words, "
has risen and will continue to rise," does not sound redundant. Instead, this is used for rhetorical emphasis.
This is an extremely subtle point: in changing from "
has risen and will continue to rise" to "
will continue to rise," what has changed? Has the strict logical meaning changed? Absolutely not. What has changed is, one might say, a certain amount of the "rhetorical punch" of the sentence, but that is not necessarily something we need to preserve. Also notice, strictly speaking, the question doesn't ask us to choose between those two options --- other mistakes (SVA & the pronoun mismatch) are more than enough to lead to
(C). That's why I don't think this question has a "meaning" problem.
saharshbagaria wrote:
Sir, This is a question from my GMAT blue book (which is said to be 700-800 question ). I also selected choice D . But after looking at the answer which was C i got a feeling when we say continue to rise it indirectly means it has risen only. So it was redundant answer. I had a doubt about the approach so i posted this.
Dear
saharshbagaria,
Do you understand the pronoun problem that makes
(D) completely unacceptable? The subject "
company management" is singular, and "their" is plural. That's a 100% wrong pronoun error. See:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/gmat-pronoun-traps/Second point: you need to master spacing with respect to punctuation. You need to capitalize the pronoun "I" wherever it appears in the sentence. Never never put a space
before a comma or a period or an exclamation mark or a question mark. One space after a comma, two spaces after anything that ends a sentence. No matter how good your English is, if you make mistake such as this in your written English, people are going to underestimate you.
Final point: my friend, do you realize that posted an
MGMAT question, and claimed that is was "self-made"? Technically, that's plagiarism. I don't think it is at all likely that
MGMAT would sue you for infringement, but technically, they would have grounds to do so. Realize that plagiarism is considered a huge ethical issue in academia, and if someone ever thought you were doing this intentionally, that could destroy your hopes for admission somewhere. You need to be very careful with any claim about what is your own work.
adymehta29 wrote:
hey Mike !
I always get confused when we have "of" in the subject. here the subject is "the price of oil and other fuel components"
so will it be singular or plural ? how do we infer it as ? price of x, and price of Y ? or price of X and Y ?
Thanks
Dear
adymehta29,
My friend, I would also recommend that you read the second point above. It's important to do everything you can so that people who read your writing will respect you.
The word "
of" is a preposition, and it begins a propositional phrase, a modifier. A prepositional phrase is an example of "fluff" --- something that is not essential to the fundamental SVA of a sentence. We have to put a mental parenthesis around it and ignore it when we are determining SVA. When you need to determine SVA, always 100% ignore anything following the word "
of," anything inside a parenthesis. The phrase "
the price of X" is always singular, regardless of the contents of X.
Does all this make sense?
Mike