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The computer companys present troubles are a result of [#permalink]
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The computer company’s present troubles are a result of technological
stagnation, marketing missteps, and managerial blunders so that several attempts to revise corporate strategies have failed to correct it.
A. so that several attempts to revise corporate strategies have failed to correct it.
B. so that several attempts at revising corporate strategies have failed to correct
C. in that several attempts at revising corporate strategies have failed to correct them
D. that several attempts to revise corporate strategies have failed to correct
E. that several attempts at revising corporate strategies have failed to correct them
Debated over C & E, finally zeroed down to C!
Views???
Last edited by singh_amit19 on 02 Oct 2007, 10:27, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: SC - SET 26 Q40 [#permalink]
30 Sep 2007, 02:06
singh_amit19 wrote: The computer company’s present troubles are a result of technological
stagnation, marketing missteps, and managerial blunders so that several attempts to revise corporate strategies have failed to correct it.
A. so that several attempts to revise corporate strategies have failed to correct it.
B. so that several attempts at revising corporate strategies have failed to correct
C. in that several attempts at revising corporate strategies have failed to correct them
D. that several attempts to revise corporate strategies have failed to correct
E. that several attempts at revising corporate strategies have failed to correct them
Debated over C & E, finally zeroed down to C!
Views???
D.
them and it refers to what? in other choices.
B. so that?
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will go for D..but by poe d is only option left..
correct idiom is attempt to and not attempt at so option B,C n E are gone..
left wid A and D
in A it does not hav any antecedent..so eliminate it
thus left wid d
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12345678 wrote: will go for D..but by poe d is only option left..
correct idiom is attempt to and not attempt at so option B,C n E are gone..
left wid A and D
in A it does not hav any antecedent..so eliminate it
thus left wid d
BINGO!!!.............OA is D....great explanations!
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Late , but D 
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Dear Amit - I have a request. Kindly don't post your answers/views along with the question. Let others try first and then you can put your views etc. Otherwise it becomes a source of distraction.
thanks
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dwivedys wrote: Dear Amit - I have a request. Kindly don't post your answers/views along with the question. Let others try first and then you can put your views etc. Otherwise it becomes a source of distraction.
thanks
I agree. Even if you post your choice and not the answer, reasoning becomes biased.
Please don't post the answer your your views.
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Could you, please, underline the required part!!! If you do not know how to do so, pm me!!!
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dwivedys wrote: Dear Amit - I have a request. Kindly don't post your answers/views along with the question. Let others try first and then you can put your views etc. Otherwise it becomes a source of distraction.
thanks
Sure Man! Will take care of the same.... 
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Vlad77 wrote: Could you, please, underline the required part!!! If you do not know how to do so, pm me!!!
Sorry i missed doing so in this one.........my fault!
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"D" you can eliminate B,C,E for incorrect idiom. The correct idiom is attempt to:
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I thought attempts at is usable.
For instance
'a successful attempt at cooking' is a valid statement.
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Kindly excuse for the word ':stupid' in my earlier post. Some how the head scratching icon did not get posted instead the word stupid got in there some how.
Apologies for the human error
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