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Within the first few weeks of school, the new teacher discovered that [#permalink] New post   09 Sep 2010, 20:13
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Within the first few weeks of school, the new teacher discovered that there was limited parental involvement and an abundance of administrative hassle.

(A) the new teacher discovered that there was limited parental involvement
(B) the new teacher discovered that there were limited parental involvement
(C) the new teacher discovered limited parental involvement
(D) the new teacher would discover that there was limited parental involvement
(E) the new teacher had discovered that there was limited parental involvement
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Re: Within the first few weeks of school, the new teacher discovered that [#permalink] New post   10 Sep 2010, 04:06
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I will go with B definitely.
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Within the first few weeks of school, the new teacher discovered that there was limited parental involvement and an abundance of administrative hassle.

Here the Sentence can be broken as follows:
Subject: the new teacher
Verb: Discovered
Object Clause: there was limited parental involvement and an abundance of administrative hassle.

As seen clearly the Object clause has changed the Ordering of Subject. So in the Object clause:
Subject: limited parental involvement and an abundance of administrative hassle.
Verb: was
Clause: There.

Flipping the Subject and Object in the Object clause:
Limited parental involvement AND an abundance of administrative hassle WERE there.

So the correct answer is B.

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Re: Within the first few weeks of school, the new teacher discovered that [#permalink] New post   28 Feb 2016, 21:42
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Hi mikemcgarry / AryamaDuttaSaikia,

Can you please help me understand the preference given to option B over option C for this particular question?

Even though I agree that B is grammatically and structurally correct here, I felt C is correct because C is less wordy than B.
C states "Within the first few weeks of school, the new teacher discovered A and B". Why is the usage "discovered that" required here?
Also I did not see any grammatical error or meaning error in C. So I picked C as the answer.
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Re: Within the first few weeks of school, the new teacher discovered that [#permalink] New post   29 Feb 2016, 01:38
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Vyshak, C is wrong because the teacher didn't discover the involvement itself. He or she discovered that there wasn't very much involvement!

Having said that, B is a very clunky sentence, and I don't think it would fly on the GMAT! Like many of the non-official Q's making the rounds here, this one is not worth much of our time.
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Re: Within the first few weeks of school, the new teacher discovered that [#permalink] New post   21 Aug 2016, 20:32
Since this is a 700 level question I guess I over thought the question. But I need an explanation to prove myself correct.

"within first few weeks" is one action and "discovered" is another action. Shouldn't past perfect be used here? In other words, why E isn't right?
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Re: Within the first few weeks of school, the new teacher discovered that [#permalink] New post   22 Aug 2016, 12:07
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manhasnoname wrote:
Since this is a 700 level question I guess I over thought the question. But I need an explanation to prove myself correct.

"within first few weeks" is one action and "discovered" is another action. Shouldn't past perfect be used here? In other words, why E isn't right?


"Within first few weeks" is not a point of time - past perfect would be appropriate, if the sentence were something as follows:
By the end of the month, the new teacher had discovered.....

Moreover the verb "was" is wrong - it should be plural: there WERE limited parental involvement AND an abundance of administrative hassle.

Therefore E is wrong.
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Re: Within the first few weeks of school, the new teacher discovered that [#permalink] New post   22 Aug 2016, 12:44
I think the OA is wrong the correct answer is option A.
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Re: Within the first few weeks of school, the new teacher discovered that [#permalink] New post   23 Aug 2016, 10:52
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nk9285 wrote:
I think the OA is wrong the correct answer is option A.


No, it is alright: A is wrong because a plural verb is required - there were two things:
1. limited parental involvement
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Re: Within the first few weeks of school, the new teacher discovered that [#permalink] New post   23 Sep 2016, 07:23
sayantanc2k wrote:
manhasnoname wrote:
Since this is a 700 level question I guess I over thought the question. But I need an explanation to prove myself correct.

"within first few weeks" is one action and "discovered" is another action. Shouldn't past perfect be used here? In other words, why E isn't right?


"Within first few weeks" is not a point of time - past perfect would be appropriate, if the sentence were something as follows:
By the end of the month, the new teacher had discovered.....

Moreover the verb "was" is wrong - it should be plural: there WERE limited parental involvement AND an abundance of administrative hassle.

Therefore E is wrong.



Sir why cant the answer be C.
I agree that B is correct but not convinced why C is wrong
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Re: Within the first few weeks of school, the new teacher discovered that [#permalink] New post   23 Sep 2016, 09:36
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suramya26 wrote:
sayantanc2k wrote:
manhasnoname wrote:
Since this is a 700 level question I guess I over thought the question. But I need an explanation to prove myself correct.

"within first few weeks" is one action and "discovered" is another action. Shouldn't past perfect be used here? In other words, why E isn't right?


"Within first few weeks" is not a point of time - past perfect would be appropriate, if the sentence were something as follows:
By the end of the month, the new teacher had discovered.....

Moreover the verb "was" is wrong - it should be plural: there WERE limited parental involvement AND an abundance of administrative hassle.

Therefore E is wrong.



Sir why cant the answer be C.
I agree that B is correct but not convinced why C is wrong


Difficult to eliminate C - the best I can reason is (though not very convincing):

In C it is not clear where the teacher discovered those two things. In B however the idea is better conveyed since option B states "there", which refers to "school".

As I already mentioned, this is not a very solid reasoning, and in my opinion this question does not seem to be very GMAT-like.
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