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According to The Stock Trader's Almanac, the performance of stocks in January foretells how the market performs throughout the year, but statistics experts warn that causation is impossible to prove.
A) how the market performs throughout the year
B) the market's performing throughout the year
C) the performance of the year's market
D) what the market will perform like in the year
E) how the market will perform during the year
12 Aug 2019, 21:39
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
According to The Stock Trader's Almanac, the performance of stocks in January foretells how the market performs throughout the year, but statistics experts warn that causation is impossible to prove.
A) how the market performs throughout the year
B) the market's performing throughout the year
C) the performance of the year's market
D) what the market will perform like in the year
E) how the market will perform during the year
• HIGHLIGHTS
The key word in this prompt is foretells in the non-underlined portion of the sentence.
To foretell is to predict.
By definition, to predict something is to talk about the future.
The correct answer will include a verb in the future tense.
THE PROMPT
THE OPTIONS
Eliminate A
• compare to (E) and recall that GMAC usually prefers the noun form of a word, in this case, performance.
Eliminate B
-- Can a prediction foretell a performance? The whole thing? The thing itself?
-- or can a prediction foretell the way in which or how the market will perform? (This one.)
-- the difference is subtle. (E) is better.
• the performance of the year's market is unidiomatic and a train wreck
-- the performance of the market gets obscured by the construction
-- although "year's" can absolutely be used in that possessive sense, the construction does not work well in this option.
Examples that are better:
-- the year's average annual temperature
-- The year's cotton crop
• this phrasing is not as good as that in E
Eliminate C
-- What the market will perform: stunts? Cartwheels? An opera?
-- OR ...perform like? As in a something that performs like something else?
-- what the market will perform like makes it sound as if the market were a circus bear
• HOW the market will perform (in option E) heads off the inanity (look it up) created by what . . . like
• IN is not standard to refer to the duration of a time period. The preposition throughout or during is preferred
Eliminate D
• correctly uses future tense, and
• correctly uses during [the year]
The answer is E.
COMMENTS
GMAC tests future tense. One example is here..
If I were a Tarot card reader and were to see a happy event in my client's future six months from now, would I say:
During the coming year, you are happy.
or
During the coming year, you will be happy.
I would say #2. I speak in the present about the future and I am not hypothesizing (at least in my mystic's opinion
). I would say, "During the coming year, in about six months, you will be happy."
The future hasn't arrived yet.
Same deal with this question.
This situation is not a general truth, so present tense doesn't work.
As a very general rule, predictions take will. (And hypotheticals, which are not at issue here, take would.)
Finally, comparison is a smart way to go with answers that are off but explaining why is difficult.
Use comparison. Options B, C, and D are not as effective as option E.
Keby1nja , welcome to SC Butler.
I will award kudos to all explanations that were posted before 9:39 PDT. (I checked.)
If your answer is incorrect but your reasoning is good, you get kudos.
Happy kudos.
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Project SC Butler: Day 150: Sentence Correction (SC2)
According to The Stock Trader's Almanac, the performance of stocks in January foretells how the market performs throughout the year, but statistics experts warn that causation is impossible to prove.
A) how the market performs throughout the year
B) the market's performing throughout the year
C) the performance of the year's market
D) what the market will perform like in the year
E) how the market will perform during the year
• HIGHLIGHTS
The key word in this prompt is foretells in the non-underlined portion of the sentence.
To foretell is to predict.
By definition, to predict something is to talk about the future.
The correct answer will include a verb in the future tense.
THE PROMPT
Quote:
According to The Stock Trader's Almanac, the performance of stocks in January foretells how the market performs throughout the year, but statistics experts warn that causation is impossible to prove.
THE OPTIONS
Quote:
A) According to The Stock Trader's Almanac, the performance of stocks in January foretells how the market performs throughout the year, but statistics experts warn that causation is impossible to prove.
• the verb performs is in the present tense. We need future tense.Eliminate A
Quote:
B) According to The Stock Trader's Almanac, the performance of stocks in January foretells the market's performing throughout the year, but statistics experts warn that causation is impossible to prove.
• the market's performing is not idiomatic• compare to (E) and recall that GMAC usually prefers the noun form of a word, in this case, performance.
Eliminate B
Quote:
C) According to The Stock Trader's Almanac, the performance of stocks in January foretells the performance of the year's market, but statistics experts warn that causation is impossible to prove.
• what, exactly IS "the performance of the market"? -- Can a prediction foretell a performance? The whole thing? The thing itself?
-- or can a prediction foretell the way in which or how the market will perform? (This one.)
-- the difference is subtle. (E) is better.
• the performance of the year's market is unidiomatic and a train wreck
-- the performance of the market gets obscured by the construction
-- although "year's" can absolutely be used in that possessive sense, the construction does not work well in this option.
Examples that are better:
-- the year's average annual temperature
-- The year's cotton crop
• this phrasing is not as good as that in E
Eliminate C
Quote:
D) According to The Stock Trader's Almanac, the performance of stocks in January foretells what the market will perform like in the year, but statistics experts warn that causation is impossible to prove.
• what the market will perform like is dreadful.-- What the market will perform: stunts? Cartwheels? An opera?
-- OR ...perform like? As in a something that performs like something else?
-- what the market will perform like makes it sound as if the market were a circus bear
• HOW the market will perform (in option E) heads off the inanity (look it up) created by what . . . like
• IN is not standard to refer to the duration of a time period. The preposition throughout or during is preferred
Eliminate D
Quote:
E) According to The Stock Trader's Almanac, the performance of stocks in January foretells how the market will perform during the year, but statistics experts warn that causation is impossible to prove.
• Option E correctly uses how to describe the manner in which the market will perform• correctly uses future tense, and
• correctly uses during [the year]
The answer is E.
COMMENTS
GMAC tests future tense. One example is here..
If I were a Tarot card reader and were to see a happy event in my client's future six months from now, would I say:
During the coming year, you are happy.
or
During the coming year, you will be happy.
I would say #2. I speak in the present about the future and I am not hypothesizing (at least in my mystic's opinion
). I would say, "During the coming year, in about six months, you will be happy." The future hasn't arrived yet.
Same deal with this question.
This situation is not a general truth, so present tense doesn't work.
As a very general rule, predictions take will. (And hypotheticals, which are not at issue here, take would.)
Finally, comparison is a smart way to go with answers that are off but explaining why is difficult.
Use comparison. Options B, C, and D are not as effective as option E.
Keby1nja , welcome to SC Butler.
I will award kudos to all explanations that were posted before 9:39 PDT. (I checked.)
If your answer is incorrect but your reasoning is good, you get kudos.
Happy kudos.
12 Aug 2019, 23:12
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According to The Stock Trader's Almanac, the performance of stocks in January foretells how the market performs throughout the year, but statistics experts warn that causation is impossible to prove.
A) how the market performs throughout the year - strange structure
B) the market's performing throughout the year -correct answer
C) the performance of the year's market - wrong meaning
D) what the market will perform like in the year - wrong use of like, changed the meaning
E) how the market will perform during the yearstrange structure
A) how the market performs throughout the year - strange structure
B) the market's performing throughout the year -correct answer
C) the performance of the year's market - wrong meaning
D) what the market will perform like in the year - wrong use of like, changed the meaning
E) how the market will perform during the yearstrange structure
