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Hi chetan2u,

In your examples
He found a doctor in the clininc.. is different from
He found that a doctor was in the clinic..

And

He replied that he is hungry -- cannot be written as-- He replied he is hungry..

Somehow I am able to relate what are trying to tell about the difference in sentence.
Can you please shed some more light..
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Verbal Experts, Please help
Option B : digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not
How is "WAS NOT continuous " parallel to "CONSISTED".

I thought that consisted is a modifier for the subject noise .

Please reply!

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By recording the noise of crinkled wrappers as they were slowly stretched out in an otherwise silent chamber, and then digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not continuous but consisted of individual bursts or pops just thousandths of a second long.

(A) digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not
(B) digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not
(C) digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not to be
(D) the sound emissions were digitized and analyzed on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not
(E) the sound emissions were digitized and analyzed on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not to be


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By recording the noise of crinkled wrappers as they were slowly stretched out in an otherwise silent chamber, and then digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not continuous but consisted of individual bursts or pops just thousandths of a second long.

(A) digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not ------------->Suspect without"that"after "found"
(B) digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not ----------> Correct
(C) digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not to be ------------->NOT+to be +BUT+Verb,NOT paralleled
(D) the sound emissions were digitized and analyzed on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not ---------------->parallel error
(E) the sound emissions were digitized and analyzed on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not to be ----------------->parallel error
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Verbal Experts, Please help
Option B : digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not
How is "WAS NOT continuous " parallel to "CONSISTED".

I thought that consisted is a modifier for the subject noise .

Please reply!

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IMO,
    "WAS NOT continuous " need not to be paralleled to "CONSISTED".Here,first portion is just a negative statement

Thanks.

Let me know if I missed anything
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Option B : digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not
How is "WAS NOT continuous " parallel to "CONSISTED".

I thought that consisted is a modifier for the subject noise .
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Hi 282552, the sentence would read: The noise consisted of individual bursts.

So, consisted is used as a verb here (and hence, parallel to the verb was).
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My analysis:

A team of scientists found ..............that is logical in this context.

This kills A, C, and E.

In the option D.
By recording ................., the sound emissions--It seems that the sound emissions are doing the task of recording, making the intended meaning altered.
If you see D "the sound emissions were digitized and analyzed on computers" ...ok they are digitized and analyzed. But who did that? Did the team use that analysis? These two questions options D fails to answer. This kills D.

The team of scientists is making the discovery of Noise. How are they doing so? The answer is "By digitizing and ...". This makes B correct.
Answer is B.
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the serious problem with A is that "consisted of" is past participle here and, so, is wrong.
not continuous but consisting of

is correct.

do you agree with me on this point?
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By recording the noise of crinkled wrappers as they were slowly stretched out in an otherwise silent chamber, and then digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not continuous but consisted of individual bursts or pops just thousandths of a second long.

(A) digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not -- a team of scientists found that is needed
(B) digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not - Correct
(C) digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not to be - same as A
(D) the sound emissions were digitized and analyzed on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not - parallelism -- by recording .... and then digitizing ..
(E) the sound emissions were digitized and analyzed on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not to be - same as A

Answer B
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By recording the noise of crinkled wrappers as they were slowly stretched out in an otherwise silent chamber, and then digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not continuous but consisted of individual bursts or pops just thousandths of a second long.

(A) digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not
(B) digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not
(C) digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not to be
(D) the sound emissions were digitized and analyzed on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not
(E) the sound emissions were digitized and analyzed on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not to be


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why not B ?
the structure noise not to be appears a little akward. Can somebody help me with the choice of OA?
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look at choice A.
consisted is wrong. it should be consisting
in choice B, "consisted" is verb not past participle.
tricky game of gmat
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[quote="maybeam"]By recording the noise of crinkled wrappers as they were slowly stretched out in an otherwise silent chamber, and then digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not continuous but consisted of individual bursts or pops just thousandths of a second long.

(A) digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not
(B) digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not
(C) digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not to be
(D) the sound emissions were digitized and analyzed on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not
(E) the sound emissions were digitized and analyzed on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not to be

"consisted of" is a verb. it is not "consisting of" . so we need a verb in negative form to be paralel.
was not' is good.

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By recording the noise of crinkled wrappers as they were slowly stretched out in an otherwise silent chamber, and then digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not continuous but consisted of individual bursts or pops just thousandths of a second long.

(A) digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not

(B) digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not

(C) digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not to be

(D) the sound emissions were digitized and analyzed on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not

(E) the sound emissions were digitized and analyzed on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not to be

POE: Try to spot the parallelism among list items-recording,digitizing,analyzing

Hence option D,E are straightforward out because of the lack of parallelism.

Its between A,B & C only

Look carefully in these options there is Idiom not X but Y
So X and Y should be parallel

Only in Option B, elements X & Y are parallel(both are verb phrases)

Hence B is the correct answer.

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By recording the noise of crinkled wrappers as they were slowly stretched out in an otherwise silent chamber, and then digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not continuous but consisted of individual bursts or pops just thousandths of a second long.

(A) digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not

(B) digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not

(C) digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not to be

(D) the sound emissions were digitized and analyzed on computers, a team of scientists found that the noise was not

(E) the sound emissions were digitized and analyzed on computers, a team of scientists found the noise not to be
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This question is based on Parallelism and Construction.

The first part of the sentence is in the form of a modifier that states how a team of scientists found out something – by recording……and then digitizing and analyzing…. These three processes must be in a similar structure.

The lack of parallelism helps to rule out Options D and E. The latter part of the modifier is not parallel to the former in these two options because of the change in construction - digitized and analyzed are not parallel in form to recording. So, Options D and E can be eliminated.

The conjunctions [b]‘not-but’ also necessitate parallelism in the second half of the sentence. [/b]

In Option A, the first of the pair ‘not’ is followed by an adjective – continuous, but the second of the pair ‘but’ is followed by a verb – consisted. So, Option A can be eliminated.

Option C also lacks parallelism – ‘not’ is followed by the infinitive ‘to be’. So, Option C can also be eliminated.

Option B maintains parallelism – ‘not’ is followed by the verb ‘was’. Therefore, B is the most appropriate option.

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Why is a comma placed behind Chamber. I chose D because of that comma.
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Why is a comma placed behind Chamber. I chose D because of that comma.
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Hello rebinh1982,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, a comma is needed after "chamber" because the phrase "By recording the noise of crinkled wrappers as they were slowly stretched out in an otherwise silent chamber" and "and then digitizing and analyzing the sound emissions on computers" are modifying phrases that are meant to act upon "a team of scientists".

Option D is incorrect because, in the sentence formed by it, both these phrases modify "the sound emissions", illogically implying that the sound recorded the noise of crinkled rappers and then digitized and analyzed the sound emissions.

We hope this helps.
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