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A minority of the US scientists assessed view atomic power stations as [#permalink] New post   05 Jul 2015, 04:39
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A minority of the US scientists assessed view atomic power stations as unsecured at present but that they will, or could, be made adequately secure in the future.


(A) that they will, or could,

(B) that they would, or could,

(C) they will be or could

(D) think that they will be or could

(E) think the power stations would or could
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Re: A minority of the US scientists assessed view atomic power stations as [#permalink] New post   05 Jul 2015, 05:50
And : D
think - verb is required to maintain parallelism.
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Re: A minority of the US scientists assessed view atomic power stations as [#permalink] New post   05 Jul 2015, 13:03
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D.

As above answer. Also E does not work because "would" implies some kind of hypothetical situation, whereas "will" is more suitable for a prediction.
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Re: A minority of the US scientists assessed view atomic power stations as [#permalink] New post   14 Jul 2015, 10:11
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Can you tell why A is wrong??
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Re: A minority of the US scientists assessed view atomic power stations as [#permalink] New post   14 Jul 2015, 10:58
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A is wrong because of 2 reasons:
1. but that - is wrong in this sentence.
2. the underlined portion doe not have any verb. As such, if you read out the whole sentence, it practically doesnt give any meaning and sounds weird.

D introduces a verb in sentences and gives meaning to sentence that scientists thought something.
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Re: A minority of the US scientists assessed view atomic power stations as [#permalink] New post   14 Jul 2015, 11:05
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A minority of the US scientists assessed view atomic power stations as unsecured at present but that they will,or could ,be made adequately secure in the future

A)that they will,or could,

B)that they would,or could,

C)they will be or could

D)think that they will be or could

E)think the power stations would or could



Why no option C, why THINK THAT is necessary??
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Re: A minority of the US scientists assessed view atomic power stations as [#permalink] New post   14 Jul 2015, 11:19
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A minority of the US scientists assessed view atomic power stations as unsecured at present but that they will,or could ,be made adequately secure in the future

A)that they will,or could,

B)that they would,or could,

C)they will be or could

D)think that they will be or could

E)think the power stations would or could



Why no option C, why THINK THAT is necessary??




Again a verb is required in the underlined part of the sentence. This is because the 1st half tells that scientists assessed view atomic power stations as unsecured at present but in the later part, "BUT" signifies they did something else also. For that you need to have a verb here. think does that perfectly in D.

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Re: A minority of the US scientists assessed view atomic power stations as [#permalink] New post   14 Jul 2015, 13:00
I will go with E.

Scientists think...
it might be true, or might not be true!
Will is not needed, since it is an uncertain situation. They only think that it might be true.
Since we have hypothetical situations, would/could should be used.

on other hand, it makes sense to tell that scientists think that..then subordinate clause.

All answers are flawed. What is the source of this one?
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Re: A minority of the US scientists assessed view atomic power stations as [#permalink] New post   16 Jul 2015, 02:33
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Hi,

"think" is required since "view" cant be used for the clause where they claim that the plants can be made secure..its their opinion so "think" makes more sense. So its between D and E.

Now in E both would/ could show the possibility so they are redundant while in D "will be/could" shows that it will happen or there is a possibility.

So D.

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Re: A minority of the US scientists assessed view atomic power stations as [#permalink] New post   01 Nov 2018, 05:42
They refer to scientist or power stations.?
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Re: A minority of the US scientists assessed view atomic power stations as [#permalink] New post   01 Nov 2018, 07:43
gvij2017 wrote:
They refer to scientist or power stations.?


Check the Original sentence...

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A minority of the US scientists assessed view atomic power stations as unsecured at present but that they will, or could, be made adequately secure in the future.


Thus, they in option (D) " think that they will be or could " must refer to the power stations not scientists....
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Re: A minority of the US scientists assessed view atomic power stations as [#permalink] New post   02 Nov 2018, 07:32
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himanshutyagi99 wrote:
gmatquant25 wrote:
A minority of the US scientists assessed view atomic power stations as unsecured at present but that they will,or could ,be made adequately secure in the future

A)that they will,or could,

B)that they would,or could,

C)they will be or could

D)think that they will be or could

E)think the power stations would or could



Why no option C, why THINK THAT is necessary??




Again a verb is required in the underlined part of the sentence. This is because the 1st half tells that scientists assessed view atomic power stations as unsecured at present but in the later part, "BUT" signifies they did something else also. For that you need to have a verb here. think does that perfectly in D.

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isn't 'be made' a verb? I think it is a verb.
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Re: A minority of the US scientists assessed view atomic power stations as [#permalink] New post   28 Dec 2022, 05:51
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A minority of the US scientists assessed view atomic power stations as unsecured at present but that they will, or could, be made adequately secure in the future.


(A) that they will, or could,

(B) that they would, or could,

(C) they will be or could

(D) think that they will be or could

(E) think the power stations would or could


I am confused between option D and option E.
what is "they" in option D referring to?
Is it referring to atomic power stations or scientists?
For this ambiguity I chose E but I believe correct formation should be "think that"
Please help.
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Re: A minority of the US scientists assessed view atomic power stations as [#permalink] New post   28 Dec 2022, 06:39
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gmatquant25 wrote:
A minority of the US scientists assessed view atomic power stations as unsecured at present but that they will, or could, be made adequately secure in the future.


(A) that they will, or could,

(B) that they would, or could,

(C) they will be or could

(D) think that they will be or could

(E) think the power stations would or could


I am confused between option D and option E.
what is "they" in option D referring to?
Is it referring to atomic power stations or scientists?
For this ambiguity I chose E but I believe correct formation should be "think that"
Please help.


Hello arya251294,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, here "they" refers to "power stations"; pronoun ambiguity is not at play in this case, as "they" can logically refer to only one noun - it makes no sense to say that scientists could be made adequately secure in the future.

To understand the concept of exceptions to pronoun ambiguity on GMAT, you may want to watch the following video (~1 minute):



All the best!
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Re: A minority of the US scientists assessed view atomic power stations as [#permalink] New post   29 Dec 2022, 03:40
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arya251294 wrote:
gmatquant25 wrote:
A minority of the US scientists assessed view atomic power stations as unsecured at present but that they will, or could, be made adequately secure in the future.


(A) that they will, or could,

(B) that they would, or could,

(C) they will be or could

(D) think that they will be or could

(E) think the power stations would or could


I am confused between option D and option E.
what is "they" in option D referring to?
Is it referring to atomic power stations or scientists?
For this ambiguity I chose E but I believe correct formation should be "think that"
Please help.


Hello arya251294,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, here "they" refers to "power stations"; pronoun ambiguity is not at play in this case, as "they" can logically refer to only one noun - it makes no sense to say that scientists could be made adequately secure in the future.

To understand the concept of exceptions to pronoun ambiguity on GMAT, you may want to watch the following video (~1 minute):



All the best!
Experts' Global Team


understood, so ideally MEANING IS THE KING
If there is only one logical reference then there is no point in banging our head thinking that there can be multiple nouns for this pronoun.

Thanks for your help!
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