During Roosevelt’s years in office Black Americans began voting for De

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During Roosevelt’s years in office Black Americans began voting for Democrats rather than Republicans in national elections, but Black support for Democrats at the state and local levels  developed only after when civil rights legislation was supported by Harry Truman.

(A) developed only after when civil rights legislation was supported by Harry Truman
(B) developed only after when Harry Truman supported civil rights legislation
(C) developed only after Harry Truman’s support of civil rights legislation
(D) develops only at the time after the supporting of civil rights legislation by Harry Truman
(E) developed only after there being Harry Truman’s support of civil rights legislation

ExpertsGlobal5 · Accepted Answer

Dear Friends,

Here is a detailed explanation to this question-

Concepts tested here: Grammatical Construction + Redundancy/Awkwardness + Tenses

• The simple past tense is used to refer to actions that concluded in the past.
• The simple present tense is used to indicate actions taking place in the current time frame, indicate habitual actions, state universal truths, and convey information that is permanent in nature.
• “being” is only to be used when it is part of a noun phrase or represents the passive continuous verb tense; the use of passive continuous must be justified in the context.

A:  A. This answer choice uses the redundant phrase “only after when”, leading to awkwardness; both “only after” and “when” refer to a point in time. Further, Option A utilizes the passive voice construction “civil rights legislation was supported by Harry Truman”, rendering it needlessly wordy.

B:  Trap. This answer choice uses the redundant phrase “only after when”, leading to awkwardness; both “only after” and “when” refer to a point in time.

C:  Correct. This answer choice correctly uses the simple past tense verb “developed” to refer to an event that concluded in the past. Further, Option B is free of any awkwardness or redundancy.

D:  This answer choice incorrectly uses the simple present tense verb “develops” to refer to an event that took place in the past; please remember, the simple past tense is used to refer to actions that concluded in the past, and the simple present tense is used only to indicate actions taking place in the current time frame, indicate habitual actions, state universal truths, and convey information that is permanent in nature. Further, Option D uses the needlessly wordy phrase “at the time after the supporting, leading to awkwardness.

E:  This answer choice is needlessly wordy due to the use of the phrase “there being”; please remember, “being” is only to be used when it is part of a noun phrase or represents the passive continuous verb tense.

Hence, C is the best answer choice.

To understand the concept of "Simple Tenses" on GMAT, you may want to watch the following video (~1 minute):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZj-SubJwsM

All the best!
Experts' Global Team

CrackverbalGMAT · Answer

The use of ‘after when’ in this sentence is incorrect.
The intention here is to say <something> developed only after <something>

We can first eliminate Options with ‘when’ and look at the remaining options:

(A) developed only after when civil rights legislation was supported by Harry Truman
(B) developed only after when Harry Truman supported civil rights legislation
(C) developed only after Harry Truman’s support of civil rights legislation
(D) develops only at the time after the supporting of civil rights legislation by Harry Truman
(E) developed only after there being Harry Truman’s support of civil rights legislation

Eliminate Options A and B

Eliminate Option D for the use of ‘develops’ – this is an incorrect tense change. The event occurred in the past, clearly.

Eliminate Option E for use of ‘there being’. The use of ‘being’ is not correct.

Option C is the best choice.

Hope this helps!

CasperMonday · Answer

My answer is C.

a - "developed only after when" sounds unidiomatic, plus it has passive voice 
b - same as a, the right version should have been "developed only after Harry Truman supported..."
c - ok, no mistakes, something developed after something, parallelism is ok
d - too wordy and awkward
e - "there being" is unidiomatic

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gladiator999 · Answer

The Correct answer will be C.
A) Only after when - incorrect
B) Only after when - incorrect
D) at the time after the - incorrect
E) only after there being - incorrect
C) Makes the sentence clear and concise and the correct choice.

deepudiscover · Answer

I think C should have support to legislation????

rocko911 · Answer

Only ____ when

Is this redundant?

abrakadabra21 · Answer

proper structure :

X developed only after Y.

DmitryFarber · Answer

deepudiscover  No, "support of" is correct. You can  provide support to  someone or something, but if we're not dealing with a verb (provide, lend, etc.), we use "of."

rocko911  "Only ___ when" isn't redundant. For instance, we can say "It only hurts when I laugh" or "You should only eat when you're hungry." However, "after when" is definitely redundant, or just wrong. Which one is it? After or when?

egmat · Answer

Hello abrakadabra21 , Of course with the given choices, the structure that you have mentioned in correct. However, both the following constructions are correct: X developed only after Y X developed only when Y However, we definitely cannot say that X developed only after when Y . Hope this helps.

Thanks. Shraddha

thangvietnam · Answer

look at e
after is a preposition and after "after", it is logic to show a point of time, and not logic to show a period. in E, a period is shown after "after". this is not logic. E is gone.

consider

after I am learning english, I go out for change.

this is not logic.

this kind of meaning error, similar to other meaning error, can be found if we use our common sense of this world. a concept is so simple but fatally important.

baaniNitin · Answer

HI Experts ,

please let us know is "only after when" is correct ?

Regards
Nitin

sayantanc2k · Answer

No, it is not correct - a preposition MUST be followed by a noun (or a nominal phrase / clause). The clause "when civil rights legislation was supported by Harry Truman" is an adverbial clause, not a noun (or a nominal phrase / clause).

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