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After sending the broken computer to the shop for repairs, the engineer realized that one of its many malfunctions were caused by too little of memory.
A. its many malfunctions were caused by too little
B. their many malfunctions were caused by a shortage
C. the computer's many malfunctions had been the outcome of too little
D. a computer's many malfunctions had been due to a shortage
E. its many malfunctions had been caused by a shortage
A. its many malfunctions were caused by too little
B. their many malfunctions were caused by a shortage
C. the computer's many malfunctions had been the outcome of too little
D. a computer's many malfunctions had been due to a shortage
E. its many malfunctions had been caused by a shortage
26 Mar 2018, 18:59
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This sentence means: An engineer's computer malfunctioned in many ways. He dropped it off at the repair shop.
After he left the repair shop, he realized that the computer's memory shortage caused one of the computer's malfunctions.
Split #1: little vs. shortage
There can be "too little memory" or "a shortage OF memory."
We have an "of" with which to contend.
LITTLE is incorrect. Eliminate A and C
Split #2: S/V agreement. One . . . was, not one . . . were
The subject is ONE of the [causes of the] computer's malfunctions. One is singular, and takes a singular verb.
Eliminate B. (A is already eliminated, but A, too, has S/V problem.)
Split #3: Indefinite/definite article. THE, not A.
First mention of computer has "the." All other references to the computer must use "the."
The computer is specific; it belongs to the engineer and it malfunctions. The use of "a" is fatal.
Eliminate D.
Answer E
NOTE: We could get into the issue of simple past vs. past perfect. It is not necessary.
There are easier bases upon which to eliminate answers, and
I do not believe the sentence presents verb tense problems.
"Y was caused by X" and "X had caused Y" are both okay.
Other people would argue differently. Verb tense in this particular sentence is too subtle an issue to worry about;
other elements are unquestionably wrong.
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18 Jul 2018, 08:32
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A. One of malfunctions was (
B. The broken computer - singular ---> we can not use "their"
C. It is a little tricky for me. My first thought was that "the computer's" is better then "its" because it avoids the ambiguity what does it refer too. The computer or engineer. But we have obvious BUT. Sure we talk about the computer, so it is no ambiguity in "its" -----> "its" is better than "the computer's". It is shorter. And we know that GMAT does not like the needless repetiton of words. So E is better than C.
D. The same reasoning as in C. And moreover: we can not use article "a", because we talk about not some comuter but about the one that is broken. We need "the".
And "caused" sonds better than "due".
E - good.
