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Re: Beyond the immediate cash flow crisis that the museum faces, its [#permalink] New post   19 Jul 2017, 10:18
Remove the fluff.

Beyond the immediate cash flow crisis that the museum faces, its survival depends on if it can broaden its membership and leave its cramped quarters for a site where it can store and exhibit its more than 12,000 artifacts.

Here the pronoun 'it' refers to 'the museum'. Now the important thing about 'if' is that it is only valid when used in a true conditional statement.
For ex: If you make a right turn, we can stop at a gas station. If we reverse this example, we get: We can stop at a gas station if you make a right turn.

Applying this analogy, reverse the original sentence: It can broaden its membership if its survival depends on???......doesnt sound right.
The correct phrase here is whether. Hence eliminate A and D

With E, the sentence becomes its survival depends on the ability for it to broaden...... has no condition at all and changes intent

Between B and C, whether or not it has the capacity to broaden its membership and can leave shows incorrect parallelism between to broaden and can leave.
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Re: Beyond the immediate cash flow crisis that the museum faces, its [#permalink] New post   10 Mar 2018, 11:03
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I was able to eliminate CDE because of the correct reasons and they did match with the reasons provided here.
Thanks to you guys.

However, I was not sure how to eliminate A and be sure about B.
As a matter of fact i am aware of the rules that If is used whenever there is a condition and Whether is used for a choice.

But as the gist of the passage conveys that there is a condition underlying that the survival of the museum depends on the If it can broaden and leave....

Seem to me that If is used correctly over here.
Please can you correct me over here.
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Re: Beyond the immediate cash flow crisis that the museum faces, its [#permalink] New post   11 Mar 2018, 04:21
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I was able to eliminate CDE because of the correct reasons and they did match with the reasons provided here.
Thanks to you guys.

However, I was not sure how to eliminate A and be sure about B.
As a matter of fact i am aware of the rules that If is used whenever there is a condition and Whether is used for a choice.

But as the gist of the passage conveys that there is a condition underlying that the survival of the museum depends on the If it can broaden and leave....

Seem to me that If is used correctly over here.
Please can you correct me over here.


Hey siddyj94 ,

You didn't understand the meaning of the sentence properly.

If you are saying if in A is used correctly, let me ask you one thing.

The sentence as per you should be "If it can broaden its membership and leave its cramped quarters for a site where it can store and exhibit its more than 12,000 artifacts, its survival depends on {what??} "

Do you see the difference? what does it depend on? That is not clear. Hence, using if is incorrect here.

But the moment I say "whether" (as in B), I am saying its survival depends on whether X... .

Does that make sense now?
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Re: Beyond the immediate cash flow crisis that the museum faces, its [#permalink] New post   05 Apr 2018, 04:53
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The Official Guide for GMAT Review, 11th Edition, 2005

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Beyond the immediate cash flow crisis that the museum faces, its survival depends on if it can broaden its membership and leave its cramped quarters for a site where it can store and exhibit its more than 12,000 artifacts.


(A) if it can broaden its membership and leave

(B) whether it can broaden its membership and leave

(C) whether or not it has the capability to broaden its membership and can leave

(D) its ability for broadening its membership and leaving

(E) the ability for it to broaden its membership and leave

Only (B) makes sense
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Re: Beyond the immediate cash flow crisis that the museum faces, its [#permalink] New post   30 Nov 2021, 01:27
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Whether X and Y doesn't marks the parallelism as Neither X and Y Does?

whether it can broaden its membership and leave Here broaden and leave is parallel But don't we need "It can ... " in the sentence structure after and. I know sentence will sound funny but i want know

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Re: Beyond the immediate cash flow crisis that the museum faces, its [#permalink] New post   21 May 2022, 00:22
I have one question on this
why "leave" is correct?
I tried Grammarly and and it accept both "leave" and "leaves"
why is that?
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Re: Beyond the immediate cash flow crisis that the museum faces, its [#permalink] New post   22 May 2022, 00:42
Errors
A- if is always followed by then condition. Only if wrong.
C- whether or not - wrong
Whether itself create both the possibilities.
D,E- no clear reference for it.ambiguous.

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