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When Medicare was enacted in 1965, it was aimed " at the [#permalink]
 03 Jan 2005, 13:57
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When Medicare was enacted in 1965, it was aimed " at the prevention of a catastrophic illness from financially destroying elderly patients"
B. at being a prevention against a catastrophic ilness ..
C. at preventing a catastrophic illness from financially destroying the elderly patient
D. to prevent a catastrophic illness financially destroying an elderly patient
E. to prevent elderly patients being financially destoying by a catastrophic illness.
Please explain your choice.
Thanks.
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(C)
First the 2-3 split occurs and that eliminates option D and E because correct idiom in this case is "aim at"
A is wrong anad B is wrong. It just doesn't sound right.
C is right because it maintains a subtle ||ism "preventing from....destroying..."
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C
It should be 'aimed at', so D & E can be eliminated
B - 'at being a prevention' is wordy
A - makes it sound like Medicare was enacted to prevent the elderly from catastrophic illness
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C
idiom "aim at"
parallelism - preventing /destorying
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Correct Idiom
Prevent [X] from [Y] - Where x and y have to be in parallel form
C is the only answer that uses the correct idiom and is a parallel stucture
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As I know correct idioms:
aimed at (noun)
aimed to (verb),
so..why E is wrong??
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the idiom is aimed at not aimed to...you will always get aimed to wrong on GMAT....
C is the right answer. IMO!
boksana wrote: As I know correct idioms:
aimed at (noun)
aimed to (verb),
so..why E is wrong??
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boksana wrote: As I know correct idioms:
aimed at (noun)
aimed to (verb),
so..why E is wrong??
choice E has redundant being. Hence C makes the most sense
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c seems to be the most appropriate one. aimed at is idiomatically correct.
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C here as well. it is the correct idiomatic expression. E is too wordy. all other choices are wrong.
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