vishalmal13 wrote:
Considering Meaning Clarity ....Eating Quail Sometimes in the Option (A) ...will it not distort the meaning ...Since it says "Eating Quail Sometimes" However the Option (C) avoids this error..
daagh Sir ,
GMATNinja Sir ...Pls Explain
It's important to recognize the difference between a concrete error that's always wrong, and a potential source of confusion that should only be considered
after you've eliminated all concrete errors.
So you aren't wrong that (A) could be interpreted in two ways: it could mean that occasionally eating quail makes you sick -- maybe you don't eat it very often, but when you do, it reliably makes you sick. It could also mean that eating quail will occasionally make you sick, even if you eat it frequently. But both interpretations seem perfectly logical to me, so I don't want to eliminate it on this basis.
Now look at the opening phrase in (C): "Eating quail has long been known to Europeans." This makes it sound as though Europeans have known about the phenomenon of eating quail. That's clearly not right. What they've known is that eating this bird can make you sick. Can you figure that out if you reread the sentence a few times? Sure. But it's confusing, and the default interpretation was illogical.
So in a side-by-side comparison, (A) is just clearer and better, even if it isn't perfect.
For what it's worth, this question is really old (like me?
), and sometimes in these older questions you see subtler distinctions than you're likely to see in newer ones, so I wouldn't worry too much about this example.
I hope that helps a bit!
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