Along with the nineteenth-century landscape paintings that depict fact

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Along with the nineteenth-century landscape paintings that depict factories encroaching on fields, Thomas Hardy’s novels seem like they is suggestive that industrialization damaged agricultural economies, marring the landscape and destroying people’s livelihoods.

A. like they is suggestive that
B. as if to suggest
C. to suggest that
D. suggestive of
E. like a suggestion of

A. like they is suggestive that
B. as if to suggest
C. to suggest that
D. suggestive of
E. like a suggestion of

aritrar4 · Answer

A. like they is suggestive that
SV agreement is wrong.

B. as if to suggest
"seem" and "as if" is redundant

C. to suggest that
correct choice. "To" denotes the intent correctly

D. suggestive of
parallelism is not maintained here with first part of the sentence.

E. like a suggestion of
like a "suggestion of" is unidiomatic.

Ans C IMO

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DinoPen · Answer

Along with the nineteenth-century landscape paintings that depict factories encroaching on fields, Thomas Hardy’s novels seem like they is suggestive that industrialization damaged agricultural economies, marring the landscape and destroying people’s livelihoods.

A. like they is suggestive that
B. as if to suggest
C. to suggest that
D. suggestive of
E. like a suggestion of

A. like they is suggestive that
 'they is' is incorrect. SV agreement

B. as if to suggest
 'Seem' should be seems, but it is not underlined. Out.

C. to suggest that
 Clean and concise.

D. suggestive of
 This does not complete an 'idea' in the clause (one of the main criteria of a sentence)

E. like a suggestion of
 'Seem' does not match with 'like' Out. (Should be seems, but seems is not underlined)

ramlala · Answer

There are two strategy to crack this.
1. 
"industrialization damaged agricultural economies" is subject-verb clause. needs to be succeded by "that".  Eliminate B, D & E 
 A  is too wordy than C.   Option C   conveys clear meaning.

2.
Selection of idiom between "Seem to" and "Seem like". In contex with above sentence I prefer "Seem to".

IMO C

TarunKumar1234 · Answer

Along with the nineteenth-century landscape paintings that depict factories encroaching on fields, Thomas Hardy’s novels seem like they is suggestive that industrialization damaged agricultural economies, marring the landscape and destroying people’s livelihoods.

A. like they is suggestive that Incorrect

they is redundant, suggestive is wrong

B. as if to suggest Incorrect

as if uses wrong

C. to suggest that Correct

D. suggestive of Incorrect

suggestive of wrong

E. like a suggestion of Incorrect

of uses wrong, that require

winterschool · Answer

Along with the nineteenth-century landscape paintings that depict factories encroaching on fields, Thomas Hardy’s novels seem like they is suggestive that industrialization damaged agricultural economies, marring the landscape and destroying people’s livelihoods.

A. like they is suggestive that
B. as if to suggest
C. to suggest that
D. suggestive of
E. like a suggestion of

A. like  they is suggestive  that  Incorrect

they is redundant, suggestive is wrong

B.  as if to  suggest  Incorrect

as if uses wrong

C.  to suggest that    Correct

D.  suggestive of   Incorrect

suggestive of wrong

E. like a  suggestion of   Incorrect

of uses wrong, that require

akadiyan · Answer

Ans:   C

Analysis :
 Along  with the nineteenth-century landscape paintings
Thomas Hardy’s  novels 
In the above statement 'Novels' is the subject of the sentence.

seem like / seem to 
Seem like meaning appear like , seem to means give the impression of

Here  seem to  is the correct usage. We can eliminate A and E based on this.

A. like they is suggestive that - Eliminate based on our analysis -   INCORRECT  
B. as if to suggest - 'As if' is redundant, GMAT always likes Concise answers -   INCORRECT  
C. to suggest that - Concise and conveys correct meaning. -   CORRECT  
D. suggestive of - Seem suggestive changes the intended meaning. -   INCORRECT  
 E. like a suggestion of   INCORRECT

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