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The Quechuans believed that all things participated in both the material level and the mystical level of reality, and many individual Quechuans claimed to have contact with it directly with an ichana (dream) experience.
(A) contact with it directly with
(B) direct contact with it by way of
(C) contact with the latter directly through
(D) direct contact with the latter by means of
(E) contact directly with the mystical level due to
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tough..................
(C) contact with the latter directly through
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I choose C too.
Can someone explain why E isn't right, please?
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gmacvik wrote: The Quechuans believed that all things participated in both the material level and the mystical level of reality, and many individual Quechuans claimed to have contact with it directly with an ichana (dream) experience.
(A) contact with it directly with
(B) direct contact with it by way of
(C) contact with the latter directly through
(D) direct contact with the latter by means of
(E) contact directly with the mystical level due to
A - 'it'?
B - 'it'?
C - Good
D - 'by means of' is wordy, 'through' is better.
E - wordy. usage of 'latter' is concise, also "due to" is wrong, "due to" is used to mean "attributable to", "through dream" is best.
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Agree with vivek and others. C it is.
D - by means of -- describes a method of or using something eg. by means of experimentation.
Of course they did not use dreams to contact mystic levels. They just happened to come in contact with mystic levels.
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It has to be between C or D
D: by means of looks redundant..
Hence C looks ok.
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C is the most concise among all the options. I'l go with C as well.
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IMO should be D
through does not seem good to me. Through has more meanings than "means of" causing ambiguity.
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C is correct
A-"it" unclear
B-"it" unclear
D-wordy
E-"due to coveys cause /effect"
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Im not too clear on why D isnt right, when compared to C.
C is more concise, but isnt the right way to say it 'direct contact....' as in D, rather than '...directly through' ?
Boy, studying for this GMAT is going to make me go crazy.
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D is the best choice.
direct should modify contact and as you can see in D, direct correctly preceeds what it modifies, 'contact'
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OA is D
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So is it just becoz of the fact that "direct contact" sounds good compared to " contact directly"??
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Ooooops ! 
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can someone please explain why it is D rather than C? I thought that C was more simple, while D is a bit too wordy?
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gmacvik wrote: The Quechuans believed that all things participated in both the material level and the mystical level of reality, and many individual Quechuans claimed to have contact with it directly with an ichana (dream) experience.
(A) contact with it directly with
(B) direct contact with it by way of
(C) contact with the latter directly through
(D) direct contact with the latter by means of
(E) contact directly with the mystical level due to
what does "it" refer to??? this is a pronoun reference questions
A and B is out for sure because they have pronoun reference error
D, by means of is wordy and uneccessary compared to C
samething as E, uneccessary wordiness
C is the winner
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Late, but agree with (D). ~direct contact with~ is idiomatic and precise
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This one is surely confusing.
C or D?
The SC1000 says that anwer is D....
Please someone convince me that it is the case!
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gmacvik wrote: The Quechuans believed that all things participated in both the material level and the mystical level of reality, and many individual Quechuans claimed to have contact with it directly with an ichana (dream) experience.
(A) contact with it directly with
(B) direct contact with it by way of
(C) contact with the latter directly through
(D) direct contact with the latter by means of
(E) contact directly with the mystical level due to
Both C and D are close IMO. But "direct contact" in D is different from "contact directly through" in C and is more appropriate as well.
I call it D.
(EDITED: Mistyped the answer )
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died4me wrote: This one is surely confusing.
C or D?
The SC1000 says that anwer is D....
Please someone convince me that it is the case!
directly through changes the meaning of the sentence. "directly" emphasizes "through" to state that some Quechuans did not have direct contact.
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