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During winters to stop the spread of flu virus, Ayurveda [#permalink] New post   31 Mar 2020, 02:02
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During winters to stop the spread of flu virus, Ayurveda suggests drinking warm water and to apply eucalyptus oil on the nose, which acts like a growth inhibitor, allowing the body time to build antibodies to fight the virus.


(A) to apply eucalyptus oil on the nose, which acts like a growth inhibitor, allowing the body time to build antibodies to fight the virus
(B) applying eucalyptus oil, which acts as a growth inhibitor on the nose, allowing the body time to build antibodies and to fight the virus
(C) applying eucalyptus oil on the nose, which acts as a growth inhibitor, allowing the body time to build antibodies to fight the virus
(D) to apply eucalyptus oil on the nose, which acting like a growth inhibitor allows the body time to build antibodies to fight the virus
(E) applying eucalyptus oil on the nose, which acting like a growth inhibitor allowing the body time for building antibodies fighting the virus
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Re: During winters to stop the spread of flu virus, Ayurveda [#permalink] New post   31 Mar 2020, 02:05
OFFICIAL EXPLANATION:

MEANING ANALYSIS:
This sentence shows facts about Ayurveda recommendations to stop spread of flu virus. It also explains the reasoning behind these recommendations. The question tests your ability to identify a list and ensure that it is parallel. It also tests your knowledge of idiomatic usage of act and like. Lastly it tests your expertise in identifying all Subject-Verb pairs in a sentence.

ERROR ANALYSIS:
The original sentence has two errors
– Parallelism and Idiom
1: Parallelism Error – The sentence presents two Ayurvedic recommendations – drinking warm water (in the non-underlined portion) and to apply Eucalyptus oil (in the underlined portion). Clearly “to apply” is not parallel to “drinking”. This should be “applying”.
2: Idiom - This sentence uses “act like” when it should indeed be “Act as”. This is because the sentence intends to state the function of eucalyptus oil. Note that “Act like” expresses similarity in behaviour which is not correct in the context of this sentence.

ANSWER (B) - ERROR EXPLANATION:
This choice has two errors
– Modifier placement and meaning
1: Modifier – The modifier “on the nose” is placed after growth inhibitor implying that eucalyptus oil acts as a certain kind of growth inhibitor – the one that is on the nose. This is clearly not the intended meaning, since per the original sentence, “on the nose” specifies the location where the oil should be applied.
2: Meaning – The placement of “and” before “to fight the virus” introduces a subtle but significant meaning error. Per the intended meaning, the growth inhibitor allows the body time to build antibodies to fight the virus. Thus fighting the virus is the purpose of antibodies. Now the placement of “and” changes this purpose. Now the sentence means that growth inhibitor allows two things to happen. Firstly the body to build antibodies and secondly to fight the virus. These are two very different meanings.

CORRECT ANSWER: (C)
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Re: During winters to stop the spread of flu virus, Ayurveda [#permalink] New post   07 Apr 2020, 05:43
Hi Guys,
I think there is some problem with the OA, i.e. option C. As far as I know, 'which' doesn't modify the clause and in this option I think, 'which' is not used correctly. Please correct me if I am wrong!!

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Re: During winters to stop the spread of flu virus, Ayurveda [#permalink] New post   07 Apr 2020, 07:27
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anumnit90 wrote:
Hi Guys,
I think there is some problem with the OA, i.e. option C. As far as I know, 'which' doesn't modify the clause and in this option I think, 'which' is not used correctly. Please correct me if I am wrong!!

Thanks in advance,
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Hello, Anurag. You are correct in saying that a which clause is not used to modify a preceding clause; however, which can reach across a prepositional phrase to modify that noun. It is debatable in (C) whether which refers to eucalyptus oil or the nose, since it could be used to replace either. You might find this e-GMAT article useful on the subject of noun modifiers and the so-called "touch rule."

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Re: During winters to stop the spread of flu virus, Ayurveda [#permalink] New post   07 Apr 2020, 08:44
In option C which is a relative pronoun so modifies nose not the entire clause right?

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Re: During winters to stop the spread of flu virus, Ayurveda [#permalink] New post   07 Apr 2020, 10:51
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In option C which is a relative pronoun so modifies nose not the entire clause right?

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The problem with the nose interpretation, Saiharish98, is that the sentence would then be saying that the nose itself acted as a growth inhibitor, and that would not make sense. Again (from my earlier post), which cannot be used to modify an entire clause. To be honest, I would prefer a hybrid answer that combined correct elements of (B) and (C) in a clear and unambiguous way--note the effect of the comma after inhibitor:

During winters to stop the spread of flu virus, Ayurveda suggests drinking warm water and applying eucalyptus oil, which acts as a growth inhibitor, on the nose, allowing the body time to build antibodies to fight the virus.

With that said, you can only go by what is on the screen. If you find yourself in a 50/50 situation, then see which answer presents options that are easier to argue against. Get rid of that answer and choose the other.

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Re: During winters to stop the spread of flu virus, Ayurveda [#permalink] New post   07 Apr 2020, 11:48
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Hi Guys,
I think there is some problem with the OA, i.e. option C. As far as I know, 'which' doesn't modify the clause and in this option I think, 'which' is not used correctly. Please correct me if I am wrong!!

Thanks in advance,
Anurag


Hi anumnit90
I would like to help here, you are absolutely right "which" does not modify a clause. Refer sentence below
During winters to stop the spread of flu virus, Ayurveda suggests drinking warm water and applying eucalyptus oil on the nose, which acts as a growth inhibitor, allowing the body time to build antibodies to fight the virus

Rules for "which"
1. It modifies the closest noun
2. Ideally which should be followed by a comma

There is one Exception rule as well for Relative modifiers
Sentence - Noun + Additional Information + Relative Modifier
Now if the Additional information about Noun
a. Can't be moved elsewhere in the sentence
b. Its placement does not result in ambiguity in meaning
Then, the use of Additional info. between Noun and Relative Modifier(in this case "which") is permitted
Hence, the use of "which" is correct here.

Hope, I am able to solve the query. Refer the link in my signature for more details on SC
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Re: During winters to stop the spread of flu virus, Ayurveda [#permalink] New post   08 Apr 2020, 00:19
Although i marked the correct answer, the usage of which to modify a slightly far away noun confused me. As a principle it is always good to remember that if you can reword the sentence and remove the prepositional phrase after the modified noun, then the usage of which "may" be incorrect.

If you can't, "which" can jump over and modify the slightly far away noun.
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Re: During winters to stop the spread of flu virus, Ayurveda [#permalink] New post   30 Mar 2021, 11:31
carma19 wrote:
During winters to stop the spread of flu virus, Ayurveda suggests drinking warm water and to apply eucalyptus oil on the nose, which acts like a growth inhibitor, allowing the body time to build antibodies to fight the virus.


(A) to apply eucalyptus oil on the nose, which acts like a growth inhibitor, allowing the body time to build antibodies to fight the virus
(B) applying eucalyptus oil, which acts as a growth inhibitor on the nose, allowing the body time to build antibodies and to fight the virus
(C) applying eucalyptus oil on the nose, which acts as a growth inhibitor, allowing the body time to build antibodies to fight the virus
(D) to apply eucalyptus oil on the nose, which acting like a growth inhibitor allows the body time to build antibodies to fight the virus
(E) applying eucalyptus oil on the nose, which acting like a growth inhibitor allowing the body time for building antibodies fighting the virus


Incorrect use of which. Nose doesn't work as an inhibitor. C is incorrect.
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Re: During winters to stop the spread of flu virus, Ayurveda [#permalink] New post   30 Mar 2021, 19:22
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While it's true that the GMAT sometimes allows some interesting exceptions to the "touch rule" for noun modifiers, this is not an official GMAT problem and I would not follow its lead. There are a number of questionable constructions here, starting with "During winters to stop the spread." On official GMAT questions, we have to accept that one answer is right, so we choose what's best. We don't have the same certainty with unofficial questions (including a few of ours over the years!), so when we see this kind of trouble we may just want to decide to scrap the question, and that's what I'd advise here.
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Re: During winters to stop the spread of flu virus, Ayurveda [#permalink] New post   22 Aug 2021, 04:09
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anumnit90 wrote:
Hi Guys,
I think there is some problem with the OA, i.e. option C. As far as I know, 'which' doesn't modify the clause and in this option I think, 'which' is not used correctly. Please correct me if I am wrong!!

Thanks in advance,
Anurag


Hi anumnit90
I would like to help here, you are absolutely right "which" does not modify a clause. Refer sentence below
During winters to stop the spread of flu virus, Ayurveda suggests drinking warm water and applying eucalyptus oil on the nose, which acts as a growth inhibitor, allowing the body time to build antibodies to fight the virus

Rules for "which"
1. It modifies the closest noun
2. Ideally which should be followed by a comma

There is one Exception rule as well for Relative modifiers
Sentence - Noun + Additional Information + Relative Modifier
Now if the Additional information about Noun
a. Can't be moved elsewhere in the sentence
b. Its placement does not result in ambiguity in meaning
Then, the use of Additional info. between Noun and Relative Modifier(in this case "which") is permitted
Hence, the use of "which" is correct here.

Hope, I am able to solve the query. Refer the link in my signature for more details on SC



Then how do we Identify the exception in real life gmat test?

I mean to ask is, is there a way to identify the exception or can you provide more question with which involved in them?
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