A seasoned bookie betting heavily on a high percentage hitter, especia

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A seasoned bookie betting heavily on a high percentage hitter, especially one who has a good average and has performed consistently in the past, makes it likely to miss the decline in his performance, especially if it is interspersed with brilliant innings.

A. seasoned bookie betting heavily on a high percentage hitter, especially one who has a good average and has performed consistently in the past, makes it likely to miss the decline in his performance, especially if it is interspersed with brilliant innings.

B. A seasoned bookie who bets heavily on a high percentage hitter is likely to miss the decline in his performance, more so when it is interspersed with brilliant innings, especially one who has a good average and has performed consistently in the past.

C. Betting heavily on a high percentage hitter, especially one who has a good average and has performed consistently in the past, a seasoned bookie is likely to miss the decline in the hitter’s performance, especially if it is interspersed with brilliant innings.

D. A seasoned bookie who bets heavily on a high percentage hitter, especially one who has a good average and has performed consistently in the past, makes missing the decline in his performance likely more so when it is interspersed with brilliant innings.

E. A seasoned bookie's heavy betting on a high percentage hitter, especially one who has a good average and previously performed consistently, makes it likely to miss the decline in his performance being interspersed with brilliant innings.

anothermillenial · Answer

At first glance, this is likely testing: modifiers, antecedents, meaning...

Honestly, this sentence almost makes no sense. "It" should be referring to the seasoned bookie. The second "it" should be referring to the declining performance.

The "especially one who has a good average..." should modify a high percentage hitter...and is way too far from that.

Looks good to me.

"Likely more so" is not the right phrasing. Additionally, the "makes missing the decline" doesn't make sense. "A bookie betting on someone else makes missing the decline" is nonsense.

It's not the "heavy betting" that "makes" the seasoned bookie fail. It's the fact that performance is misjudged because of good averages. As we know, averages lie!

gmexamtaker1 · Answer

Hello experts, 
I just want to ask a prompt question is "betting" the verb of the subject "A seasoned bookie" ? if so, "makes" remains without a subject?

AndrewN · Answer

Hello,  UNSTOPPABLE12 . To answer your question, no,  betting  is  not  the verb of the subject  a seasoned bookie . An -ing conjugation of a verb changes its grammatical function to a noun or an adjective. Here,  betting heavily on a high percentage hitter  is modifying the noun  a seasoned bookie , so the -ing phrase is acting as an adjective, and  makes  is indeed the verb, the action, of the subject. The barebones sentence is one that follows a subject-verb-direct object construct:

A bookie + makes +

Whatever answers the  what?  of something that is being made is the direct object of the sentence. I hope that helps. If you have further questions, feel free to post them.

- Andrew

Tushrgupta · Answer

Got the Question right but took 2.46 mins,I guess SC questions must be solved more faster is it,need more understanding on time management

Tempor · Answer

I think that C is the correct answer. It looks like the most appropriate sentence. However, that's a pretty difficult task and I cannot say it with 100% confidence. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think that C is the correct answer. By the way, I am a real gambler, and I have a lot of experience at playing different games of chance. When I have some free time I am always playing on different casinos from  https://casinoluck.ca/ . That's my hobby, I really like it!

tejaswym95 · Answer

Hello experts,

I have been able to boil down to options C and D. And I marked D as ' Betting heavily ...' is a modifier in option C and suggests that likely missing and betting are happening simultaneously. Whereas in Option D it talks of a bookie who bets. Can please explain why C over D?

sambitspm · Answer

A seasoned bookie betting heavily on a high percentage hitter, especially one who has a good average and has performed consistently in the past, makes it likely to miss the decline in his performance, especially if it is interspersed with brilliant innings.

It is important to find the meaning in this question as the whole sentence is to be corrected.

A. seasoned bookie betting heavily on a high percentage hitter, especially one who has a good average and has performed consistently in the past, makes it likely to miss the decline in his performance, especially if it is interspersed with brilliant innings.

Option A  Who is likely to miss? A bookie or a hitter? It is not very clear from the statement.

B. A seasoned bookie who bets heavily on a high percentage hitter is likely to miss the decline in his performance, more so when it is interspersed with brilliant innings, especially one who has a good average and has performed consistently in the past.

Option B  Here the   more so when  it  is interspersed with brilliant innings . Here the  it   is not making perfect relation to the performance of hitter, rather it is linking to the bookie's performance.

D. A seasoned bookie who bets heavily on a high percentage hitter, especially one who has a good average and has performed consistently in the past, makes missing the decline in his performance likely more so when it is interspersed with brilliant innings.

Option D  Links are right but the use of  makes missing  is not correct in this case.

E. A seasoned bookie's heavy betting on a high percentage hitter, especially one who has a good average and previously performed consistently, makes it likely to miss the decline in his performance being interspersed with brilliant innings.

Option E  Same flaws in the reasoning.

C. Betting heavily on a high percentage hitter, especially one who has a good average and has performed consistently in the past, a seasoned bookie is likely to miss the decline in the hitter’s performance, especially if it is interspersed with brilliant innings.

Option C is making correct links and makes sense of the sentence.

IanStewart · Answer

The question in this thread seems to be essentially copied from an official problem:

https://gmatclub.com/forum/heavy-commit ... 10136.html

but the official question makes sense, and I don't think this one does (though I don't know anything about cricket, which is what I'm guessing this sentence is about, so it's hard to tell exactly). The GMAT is never going to test whether you know cricket or some other sport, so you'd never see a question like this on the test, and anyone concerned about it should instead attempt the official problem because that's the question that might resemble what you see on test day.

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