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That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman.
A. her being a woman
B. being a woman is
C. her womanhood
D. that she was a woman
E. that she is a woman
Pls could someone tell me what the answer is and explain why.
Thanks
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Re: SC - Brutal SCs [#permalink]
24 Oct 2008, 19:19
nganle08 wrote: That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman.
A. her being a woman
B. being a woman is
C. her womanhood
D. that she was a woman
E. that she is a woman
Pls could someone tell me what the answer is and explain why.
Thanks Correct idiom is 'more X than Y' IMO answer is A. I believe second 'that' is unnecessary
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Re: SC - Brutal SCs [#permalink]
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nganle08 wrote: That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman.
A. her being a woman
B. being a woman is
C. her womanhood
D. that she was a woman
E. that she is a woman
Pls could someone tell me what the answer is and explain why.
Thanks That ..... is more of a landmark is parallel with than that she is a woman. D is wrong because it uses was where as the non underlined part uses is.
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Re: SC - Brutal SCs [#permalink]
24 Oct 2008, 19:35
nganle08 wrote: That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman.
A. her being a woman
B. being a woman is
C. her womanhood
D. that she was a woman
E. that she is a woman
Pls could someone tell me what the answer is and explain why.
Thanks Here, parallelism error....underlined part should be parallel with......"is more of a landmark in the industry"...so E
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Re: SC - Brutal SCs [#permalink]
24 Oct 2008, 20:23
That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman.
A. her being a woman
B. being a woman is
C. her womanhood
D. that she was a woman
E. that she is a woman
A and B should not be correct. GMAT dont' like 'being'!!!
I see the word 'rose' and i think that D might be correct.
I picked D.
OA plzzzzz!!
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Re: SC - Brutal SCs [#permalink]
24 Oct 2008, 20:38
I will phrase this sentence in other way "That the new managing editor is more of a landmark in the industry that she is a woman" She is a landmark because she is a woman, IMO E, D is absurd, how come it will be was?  English guru's yur opinion pls and OA plz
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Re: SC - Brutal SCs [#permalink]
24 Oct 2008, 21:35
reply2spg wrote: I will phrase this sentence in other way "That the new managing editor is more of a landmark in the industry that she is a woman" She is a landmark because she is a woman, IMO E, D is absurd, how come it will be was? English guru's yur opinion pls and OA plz I just checked it. we need a sujective case here and thus we need 'she' rather than 'her'.
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Re: SC - Brutal SCs [#permalink]
25 Oct 2008, 05:20
C. Paralleism is required between "landmark" and "womanhood". "that" does not require any parallelism.
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Re: SC - Brutal SCs [#permalink]
25 Oct 2008, 11:45
nganle08 wrote: That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman.
A. her being a woman
B. being a woman is
C. her womanhood
D. that she was a woman
E. that she is a woman
Pls could someone tell me what the answer is and explain why.
Thanks Is 'than' in the question underlined or was it underlined by mistake ? From the answer choices it seems that the underline part should start after 'than'....otherwise few of the choices doesn't make english sense at all IMO A That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman
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Re: SC - Brutal SCs [#permalink]
26 Oct 2008, 10:45
nganle08 wrote: That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman.
A. her being a woman
B. being a woman is
C. her womanhood
D. that she was a woman
E. that she is a woman
Pls could someone tell me what the answer is and explain why.
Thanks I go for E. My reasoning: Must have the 'that' because the question starts with 'that' (parallelism). Therefore eliminate ABC, remaining choices: D or E. But D implies she was (past tense) a woman, which I think sounds odd ... once a woman, always a woman (except in cases of plastic surgery ;p) - therefore eliminate D. More scientifically, the first part "the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position" is in the present tense, therefore we should choose the same tense for the second part.
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Re: SC - Brutal SCs [#permalink]
27 Oct 2008, 10:00
sorry everyone. My PC broke down last weekend; thus I could not check your discussions.
the OA is E. I will have to read your explanations to understand and will post my comments later.
Thanks all for your participation.
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Re: SC - Brutal SCs [#permalink]
27 Oct 2008, 10:04
kandyhot27 wrote: nganle08 wrote: That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman.
A. her being a woman
B. being a woman is
C. her womanhood
D. that she was a woman
E. that she is a woman
Pls could someone tell me what the answer is and explain why.
Thanks Is 'than' in the question underlined or was it underlined by mistake ? From the answer choices it seems that the underline part should start after 'than'....otherwise few of the choices doesn't make english sense at all IMO A That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman Sorry, I underlined "than" by mistake. The underlined part should be only "her being a woman". OA is E.
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Re: SC - MANAGING EDITOR [#permalink]
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x2suresh wrote: That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman.
A. her being a woman
B. being a woman is
C. her womanhood
D. that she was a woman
E. that she is a woman IMO A. Here the construction is: Something is more of X that (of) Y - Both X and Y will be objects of the sentence. So "her" is better choice over "She". Hence eliminating D and E. B has no direct object after "than" so wrong. C states different meaning because "rose from the publications soft news sections" is not stressing on the "womenhood" but rather on "her [being woman]".
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Re: SC - MANAGING EDITOR [#permalink]
05 Feb 2009, 14:49
More of a landmark in the industry is a phrase and should be made parallel to another phrase. Of all the choices, A is a valid phrase. So I will go with A.
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Re: SC - MANAGING EDITOR [#permalink]
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I'll go with A too. E is too weird in my opinion.
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That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman. A. her being a woman B. being a woman is
C. her womanhood D. that she was a woman E. that she is a woman E is clearer and I'll never pick being unless everything else is eliminated clearly 
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Re: SC - MANAGING EDITOR [#permalink]
05 Feb 2009, 23:24
E for parrallelism the sentance should begin with that x2suresh wrote: That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman.
A. her being a woman 'that' is missing
B. being a woman is 'that' is missing
C. her womanhood 'that' is missing
D. that she was a woman
E. that she is a woman Hold
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Re: SC - MANAGING EDITOR [#permalink]
06 Feb 2009, 01:39
What is getting compared here?
"more <of a landmark in the industry> than <similar noun phrase>"
For the above structure, C is the best.
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Re: SC - MANAGING EDITOR [#permalink]
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