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Contrary to the scholarly wisdom of the 1950’s and early 1960’s that [#permalink] New post  01 Mar 2021, 09:31
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Shouldn't there be a "that" after "predicted"?

I predicted he will come to the office tomorrow- isn't correct.

You are right. Reporting words (such as predict, said, announce etc) are generally followed by that. However, (like most other rules in GMAT), this is not an absolute rule.

Mercifully, this sentence doesn't really test you on this concept, since predicted is in the non-underlined portion.

Few official questions that do have a significant potential to trip students:

Trans World Entertainment Corporation, which owns the Record Town and Saturday Matinee retail chains, announced it was closing up to one fourth of its stores because of poor sales.
- announced is not followed by that

At one time, the majestic American chestnut was so prevalent that it was said a squirrel could jump from tree to tree without once touching the ground between New York State and Georgia.
- said is not followed by that.
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Re: Contrary to the scholarly wisdom of the 1950’s and early 1960’s that [#permalink] New post  06 Mar 2021, 22:55
Is C rejected because of redundancy? Or is there any other error in it?
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Re: Contrary to the scholarly wisdom of the 1950’s and early 1960’s that [#permalink] New post  07 Mar 2021, 08:37
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Is C rejected because of redundancy? Or is there any other error in it?

Here's the full sentence, with (C) inserted:
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(C) Contrary to the scholarly wisdom of the 1950’s and early 1960’s that predicted the processes of modernization and rationalization would be a gradual undermining of ethnicity, ethnicity is a worldwide phenomenon of increasing importance.

The biggest problem with (C) is that the part in red makes no sense: it's saying that certain processes (modernization and rationalization) would be "a gradual undermining of ethnicity". How can a process actually "be... an undermining"? The processes can undermine something, but it doesn't make sense to say that the processes actually are "an undermining."

I hope that helps a bit!
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Re: Contrary to the scholarly wisdom of the 1950’s and early 1960’s that [#permalink] New post  07 Mar 2021, 21:38
GMATNinja Please help me here!

In choice A isnt there a redundancy error of saying prediction + would?
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Re: Contrary to the scholarly wisdom of the 1950’s and early 1960’s that [#permalink] New post  22 Apr 2021, 04:34
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Contrary to the scholarly wisdom of the 1950’s and early 1960’s that predicted the processes of modernization and rationalization would gradually undermine it, ethnicity is a worldwide phenomenon of increasing importance.

(A) would gradually undermine it
(B) to be a gradual undermining of it
(C) would be a gradual undermining of ethnicity
(D) to gradually undermine ethnicity
(E) gradually undermining it

Source: GMAC Paper Test, Test Code #55, Section 6, Question 8

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Since verb prediected has appeared it should complement with would verb? Is this correct?

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/11/10/books/ties-of-blood-rivers-of-blood.html

CONTRARY to the popular and scholarly wisdom of the 1950's and early 60's that predicted the processes of modernization and rationalization would gradually undermine ethnicity, we have come to realize that what appear to be religious, linguistic and cultural conflicts can be usefully and meaningfully analyzed as ethnic in nature, and that ethnicity is a world-wide phenomenon of continuing, even increasing importance.



How are we rejecting D here? I think D makes complete sense. Need help

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Re: Contrary to the scholarly wisdom of the 1950’s and early 1960’s that [#permalink] New post  29 Apr 2021, 02:23
There are many decision points to eliminate other options, but these are 2 things that can be applied quickly and effectively to get down to option A.

"Would" is used when you are talking about future in past tense. Here, we have "predicted" used as an indicator for talking about future in past tense. Therefore, B, D and E are gone.

Out of A and C

"C " has meaning issues. Intended meaning is that "the processes of modernization and rationalization" will (in coming time) undermine the "Ethnicity", whereas C says "the processes of modernization and rationalization" will be "a gradual undermining of ethnicity", a noun phrase, which distort the meaning by implying A will become B rather than A will lead to undermine B. Hope it makes sense
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