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neeshpal wrote: The U.S. Forest Service, then five years old, decided to put out every fire in its domain, and within three decades the agency formulated what it called the 10 A.M. policy, directing that fires be extinguished quicker than they had been in the past.A. within three decades the agency formulated what it called the 10 A.M. policy, directing that fires be extinguished quicker than they had been in the past. B. within three decades the agency has formulated what it called the 10 A.M. policy, directing that fires be extinguished quicker than they had been in the past. C. within three decades the agency had formulated what it called the 10 A.M. policy, directing that fires be extinguished quicker than they had been in the past. D. within three decades the agency formulated what it called the 10 A.M. policy, directing that fires be extinguished more quickly than they had been in the past. BINGOE. within three decades the agency has formulated what it called the 10 A.M. policy, directing that fires be extinguished more quickly than they had been in the past. explanations please.. Nice question More quickly is more appropriate than quicker since there are two events that occured in past, (fires took place and than the policy was introduced), choice D satisfies both the criteria, hence the best answere, 
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25 Apr 2012, 10:46
Past tense is to be used for the underlined portion as well. So down to D and E, quicker (adj and adv) and quickly(adv) both can be used as adverb. not too much sure but since quickly is more appropriate as it only acts as adv and hence is more correct
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My choice is "D" because of the use of simple present tense to make the sentence parallel.
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MGMAT in this case is being outquoted IMO. MGMAT says ‘in the last ten days” meaning that the action started some ten days ago in the past and is still continuing. That is the significance of the word last. You certainly require a present perfect to tense it. However, the topic under question does not say that the FD formulated in the last three decades. And also note that the Department called it the 10. A.M policy in simple past tense. Therefore, the drafting is still not continuing and ended within three decades well before now; therefore, this is an action that started and ended in the past just as it was named in the past using simple past. You require a corresponding simple past to describe the formulation also, and hence D using formulated is the appropriate choice.
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25 May 2012, 02:06
Just for the sake of getting the concepts clear, what is the subject of the verb 'directing' in this case ? the 'agency' or the 'policy'? Please let me know.
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Directing is not a verb in this case. So there is no subject for that. It is a present participle. You see, a policy is just statement while it is the men behind the policy who are the directors. So Agency fits in better
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Understood your explanation. Thanks
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I got another doubt. Technically, isn't the present participle 'directing' wrongly modifying the '10 A.M. policy' rather than the 'agency' since the noun '10 A.M. policy' immediately precedes the participle? Or is it not necessary that the participle will always modify the noun immediately preceding it? Please clarify. Thanks.
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neeshpal wrote: The U.S. Forest Service, then five years old, decided to put out every fire in its domain, and within three decades the agency formulated what it called the 10 A.M. policy, directing that fires be extinguished quicker than they had been in the past.A. within three decades the agency formulated what it called the 10 A.M. policy, directing that fires be extinguished quicker than they had been in the past. B. within three decades the agency has formulated what it called the 10 A.M. policy, directing that fires be extinguished quicker than they had been in the past. C. within three decades the agency had formulated what it called the 10 A.M. policy, directing that fires be extinguished quicker than they had been in the past. D. within three decades the agency formulated what it called the 10 A.M. policy, directing that fires be extinguished more quickly than they had been in the past. E. within three decades the agency has formulated what it called the 10 A.M. policy, directing that fires be extinguished more quickly than they had been in the past. explanations please.. crap....its took me 2.10 min to choose the option D. thats not good. quicker is adjective and it modifies noun fire. but the intended meaning of the sentence needs "quicker" to modify the verb "extinguish" so A, b and C are out. In E "has formulated" means the ongoing process of formulation which is not the intended meaning of the sentence. hence E is out. please correct me if i am wrong regards
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zisis wrote: neeshpal wrote: The U.S. Forest Service, then five years old, decided to put out every fire in its domain, and within three decades the agency formulated what it called the 10 A.M. policy, directing that fires be extinguished quicker than they had been in the past.A. within three decades the agency formulated what it called the 10 A.M. policy, directing that fires be extinguished quicker than they had been in the past. B. within three decades the agency has formulated what it called the 10 A.M. policy, directing that fires be extinguished quicker than they had been in the past. C. within three decades the agency had formulated what it called the 10 A.M. policy, directing that fires be extinguished quicker than they had been in the past. D. within three decades the agency formulated what it called the 10 A.M. policy, directing that fires be extinguished more quickly than they had been in the past. E. within three decades the agency has formulated what it called the 10 A.M. policy, directing that fires be extinguished more quickly than they had been in the past. explanations please.. quick modifies verb (extinguished) thus we need adverbial modifier -> "quickly" ELIMINATE ABC between D and E chose D because has formulated means it is still formulating but then uses verb CALLED in the past so formulation action should be finished.... D my choice ! Came down to D and E. Had trouble figure it out between the two but came away with D. However, you explained what I needed to know. Gave you kudos. Thanks
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Thanks Ritula for detailed explanation ... really helps to understand tense issue..
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Can someone explain why B is wrong ?
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The U.S. Forest Service, then five years old, decided to put out every fire in its domain, and within three decades the agency formulated what it called the 10 A.M. policy, directing that fires be extinguished quicker than they had been in the past.
1) The U.S. Forest Service, then five years old, - for ex Lets take 1950 ( implies US Forest service was founded in 1945 )
In 1950 they decided something
2) Within three decades, Before 1980 - the agency formulated / has formulated
The have forms is used only when the timeline is unclear. Here it has been specified within three decades. So it has to be verb + ed form.
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07 Feb 2013, 06:22
Is "Quicker" a valid english word??
I think "Quicker" is slang lingo.
Agree with D since we don't need a perfect tense.
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The U.S. Forest Service, then five years old, decided to put out every fire in its domain, and within three decades the agency formulated what it called the 10 A.M. policy, directing that fires be extinguished quicker than they had been in the past.
A. within three decades the agency formulated what it called the 10 A.M. policy, directing that fires be extinguished quicker than they had been in the past. Incorrect. "more quickly" is correct. It is parallel - Formulated Vs Decided.
B. within three decades the agency has formulated what it called the 10 A.M. policy, directing that fires be extinguished quicker than they had been in the past. Incorrect. "more quickly" is correct. It is not parallel - has Formulated Vs Decided.
C. within three decades the agency had formulated what it called the 10 A.M. policy, directing that fires be extinguished quicker than they had been in the past. Incorrect. "more quickly" is correct. It is not parallel - had Formulated Vs Decided.
D. within three decades the agency formulated what it called the 10 A.M. policy, directing that fires be extinguished more quickly than they had been in the past. Correct. "more quickly" is correct. It is parallel - Formulated Vs Decided. Past perfect tense has two actions - one implemented and formulated while "be extinguished....had been in the past"
E. within three decades the agency has formulated what it called the 10 A.M. policy, directing that fires be extinguished more quickly than they had been in the past. Incorrect. "more quickly" is correct. It is not parallel - has Formulated Vs Decided.
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one more point to keep in mind.. understand that "within three decades the agency" is a prepositional phrase. If we eliminate it then also the sentence can survive.
so we need to really watch what part of sentence is playing what role. So to maintain parallelism i think it would be ok to have a prepositional phrase after "and". We just need to check the two verbs and see if they are parallel or not.
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soumens wrote: Is "Quicker" a valid english word??
I think "Quicker" is slang lingo.
Agree with D since we don't need a perfect tense. Hi Soumens, In written English "more quickly" is preferred; whereas, "quicker" is a word that is used frequently in verbal communications. In GMAT most probably the choice with "quicker" would be incorrect. Bottom-line: If there are two answer choices which are same grammatically and contextually, and the difference is between "more quickly" and "quicker" then the choice with "more quickly" would be the better one. Hope that helps Vercules,
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