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A team of scientists at Rochester University examined the effect of a modified HIIT regimen – one minute of exercise at 90 percent of one’s maximum heart rate with one minute of recovery – on a group of middle-aged participants having cardiovascular disease, and they concluded that the benefits of HIIT may also extend to people who suffer from chronic health conditions.
A) middle-aged participants having cardiovascular disease, and they concluded that the benefits of HIIT may also extend to people who suffer from
B) middle-aged participants who had cardiovascular disease, and it concluded that the benefits of HIIT may also extend to people that suffer with
C) middle-aged participants having cardiovascular disease, concluding that the benefits of HIIT may also extend to people suffering with
D) participants who were middle-aged and who had cardiovascular disease, and they concluded that the benefits of HIIT may also be extended to people who suffer from
E) middle-aged participants who had cardiovascular disease, and it concluded that the benefits of HIIT may also extend to people suffering from
01 Apr 2021, 23:25
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
THE PROMPT
A team of scientists examined the effect of a modified HIIT regimen on a group of middle-aged participants having cardiovascular disease, and they concluded that the benefits of HIIT may also extend to people who suffer from chronic health conditions.
• PRONOUN USAGE
The singular noun team "anchors" the noun phrase and is the "head noun" in the noun phrase.
In other words, singular team is the subject of the sentence.
Plural they could absolutely refer to scientists, but what the pronoun is doing makes a difference: are they taking a big action that would be in keeping with "they" as the subject of the sentence.
THE OPTIONS
→ In the noun phrase team of scientists, the word team "anchors" that noun phrase.
Team is the head noun of the noun phrase.
Singular team is the "main noun." The phrase of scientists describes the team. Scientists are not the subjects of the sentence.
→ The subject of this sentence is singular team, which takes the pronoun it, not they
• having vs. who had
→ Participants having heart disease is not quite right; participants who had is better
→ typically, when we are describing a chronic disease, we say that a person "has" the ailment, or we point to the person who has the ailment.
We do not typically talk about the person having a broken arm.
We talk about the person who has a broken arm.
This error alone is enough to eliminate this option.
• The correct idiomatic expression is suffer from and not suffer with.
→ Wrong: He suffers with allergies.
(He and the allergies do not suffer together.)
→ Correct: He suffers from allergies.
ELIMINATE B
→ See option A
• Who or what concluding is modifying is not very clear.
→ concluding should modify team, but as a noun-modifier, concluding is too far away from its noun.
→ you could argue that "concluding. . . ." modifies the entire previous clause. The argument is decent.
Stylistically, though, most of the time, we want to avoid too many ____ING words in a sentence unless they are part of a list.
I am not sure why few people teach this guideline, but here it is: As a matter of style, avoid too many words that end in -ING.
• suffering from is correct. Suffering with is not idiomatic.
ELIMINATE C
→ these two verbs do not mean the same thing
→ Be extended sounds intentional.
Correct: Highway I-80 extends from California to New Jersey.
Correct: The train tracks may be extended to the exurb in Chicago.
→ they could refer to scientists, but a team is a singular it.
The team studied XYZ. What did IT conclude?
ELIMINATE D
• This option corrects all of those that arose in the other options
KEEP
The answer is E.
Notes
zhanbo , be extra careful with online collocations dictionaries.
I appreciate your extra work.
When we read about collocations, we usually do not know whether we are reading about British English, U.S. English, or even informal spoken English.
Most importantly of all, the person writing the collocation probably accepts conventions that would be absolutely incorrect on the GMAT.
I do not recall many GMAT questions that involve the word "suffer" at all, but I recall absolutely none in which "suffer with" was tested or correct.
In other words, your chances of facing this split are low and if you do fact this split, choose suffer from.
Here is a thread in which Mike McGarry and Ron Purewal agree that "suffer from" is correct and explain why.
AkashM , you wrote:
Think of had (simple past tense) as suffered from or experienced (also simple past tense).
Simple past tense had correctly pairs with examined.
COMMENTS
I am glad to see you all.
I like the dialogue on the thread.
I also appreciate that those of you who reasoned slightly away from the correct answer nonetheless displayed very good critical thinking skills.
Nice work!
Project SC Butler: Sentence Correction (SC1)
THE PROMPT
Quote:
• Strip this sentence
A team of scientists examined the effect of a modified HIIT regimen on a group of middle-aged participants having cardiovascular disease, and they concluded that the benefits of HIIT may also extend to people who suffer from chronic health conditions.
• PRONOUN USAGE
The singular noun team "anchors" the noun phrase and is the "head noun" in the noun phrase.
In other words, singular team is the subject of the sentence.
Plural they could absolutely refer to scientists, but what the pronoun is doing makes a difference: are they taking a big action that would be in keeping with "they" as the subject of the sentence.
THE OPTIONS
Quote:
• the singular team requires the singular pronoun it
→ In the noun phrase team of scientists, the word team "anchors" that noun phrase.
Team is the head noun of the noun phrase.
Singular team is the "main noun." The phrase of scientists describes the team. Scientists are not the subjects of the sentence.
→ The subject of this sentence is singular team, which takes the pronoun it, not they
• having vs. who had
→ Participants having heart disease is not quite right; participants who had is better
→ typically, when we are describing a chronic disease, we say that a person "has" the ailment, or we point to the person who has the ailment.
We do not typically talk about the person having a broken arm.
We talk about the person who has a broken arm.
Quote:
• To describe people, use WHO, not THAT.
This error alone is enough to eliminate this option.
• The correct idiomatic expression is suffer from and not suffer with.
→ Wrong: He suffers with allergies.
(He and the allergies do not suffer together.)
→ Correct: He suffers from allergies.
ELIMINATE B
Quote:
• participants having heart disease is not quite right; participants who had is better
→ See option A
• Who or what concluding is modifying is not very clear.
→ concluding should modify team, but as a noun-modifier, concluding is too far away from its noun.
→ you could argue that "concluding. . . ." modifies the entire previous clause. The argument is decent.
Stylistically, though, most of the time, we want to avoid too many ____ING words in a sentence unless they are part of a list.
I am not sure why few people teach this guideline, but here it is: As a matter of style, avoid too many words that end in -ING.
• suffering from is correct. Suffering with is not idiomatic.
ELIMINATE C
Quote:
• extend vs. be extended
→ these two verbs do not mean the same thing
→ Be extended sounds intentional.
Correct: Highway I-80 extends from California to New Jersey.
Correct: The train tracks may be extended to the exurb in Chicago.
→ they could refer to scientists, but a team is a singular it.
The team studied XYZ. What did IT conclude?
ELIMINATE D
Quote:
• I do not see any errors.
• This option corrects all of those that arose in the other options
KEEP
The answer is E.
Notes
zhanbo , be extra careful with online collocations dictionaries.
I appreciate your extra work.
When we read about collocations, we usually do not know whether we are reading about British English, U.S. English, or even informal spoken English.
Most importantly of all, the person writing the collocation probably accepts conventions that would be absolutely incorrect on the GMAT.
I do not recall many GMAT questions that involve the word "suffer" at all, but I recall absolutely none in which "suffer with" was tested or correct.
In other words, your chances of facing this split are low and if you do fact this split, choose suffer from.
Here is a thread in which Mike McGarry and Ron Purewal agree that "suffer from" is correct and explain why.
AkashM , you wrote:
Quote:
I am not sure that I understand your reasoning that the use of who had somehow implies "that the study was conducted on patients who had health conditions, but did not have those conditions during the study."
Think of had (simple past tense) as suffered from or experienced (also simple past tense).
Simple past tense had correctly pairs with examined.
COMMENTS
I am glad to see you all.
I like the dialogue on the thread.
I also appreciate that those of you who reasoned slightly away from the correct answer nonetheless displayed very good critical thinking skills.
Nice work!
02 Apr 2021, 05:44
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Referring to participant's condition in past tense does not make sense, because it would imply that the study was conducted on patients who had health conditions, but did not have those conditions during the study. Thus, such a statement would not support the scientist's conclusion.
Eliminate B, D and E because it uses 'had' to refer to the participant's cardiovascular condition.
Eliminate C because 'suffering with' is not the correct idiom.
A remains and is the correct answer. Logical antecedent for 'they' can be the scientists.
Eliminate B, D and E because it uses 'had' to refer to the participant's cardiovascular condition.
Eliminate C because 'suffering with' is not the correct idiom.
A remains and is the correct answer. Logical antecedent for 'they' can be the scientists.
