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Having accepted the invitation for tonight's opera at the Disney Hall,

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Having accepted the invitation for tonight's opera at the Disney Hall, [#permalink] Having accepted the invitation for tonight's opera at the Disney Hall,   29 Oct 2013, 03:30
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Having accepted the invitation for tonight's opera at the Disney Hall, Fox is taking Mireille, until recently the wife of yvonne torres, including her two young daughters, student of the Lycee Francais de los Angeles.
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Re: Having accepted the invitation for tonight's opera at the Disney Hall, [#permalink] Having accepted the invitation for tonight's opera at the Disney Hall,   29 Oct 2013, 03:50
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Bakhtior wrote:
I was stucked to choose one of the two confusing words, and I couldn't find the explanation of the difference.

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Hi,

Here in this sentence, The actual meaning is Fox is taking Mireille including her (Mireille's) daughter to the Opera.

Having accepted the invitation for tonight's opera at the Disney Hall, Fox is taking Mireille, until recently the wife of yvonne torres, including her two young daughters, student of the Lycee Francais de los Angeles.

1. until recently the wife of yvonne torres,- Modifies Mireille.
2. student of the Lycee Francais de los Angeles- Modifies Daughters.

Here read by ignoring the modifiers. We get Fox is taking Mireille, including her two young daughters. Again the including her modifies Mireille. not fox.

If you use along with it changes the meaning of the sentence, It says fox is taking her two daughters and Mireille to the Opera. Along with Modifies Fox instead of Mireille- So this is wrong

Sentence is correct as is. so answer is A. :)
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Re: Having accepted the invitation for tonight's opera at the Disney Hall, [#permalink] Having accepted the invitation for tonight's opera at the Disney Hall,   23 Nov 2013, 03:45
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Certainly, including describes the subset of a set, and in this sentence "Fox is taking Mireille" I do not see any any vague set, for an instance "bunch of flowers, including roses and Jasmines" here I can see a Set (Bunch) and further (including) describes that set.

As per my understanding answer should be B, along with properly express the sense of companionship.

Experts Kindly shed some light on this.
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Re: Having accepted the invitation for tonight's opera at the Disney Hall, [#permalink] Having accepted the invitation for tonight's opera at the Disney Hall,   16 Jan 2014, 10:43
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Bakhtior wrote:
I was stucked to choose one of the two confusing words, and I couldn't find the explanation of the difference.

Explain please :?:



Hi,

Here in this sentence, The actual meaning is Fox is taking Mireille including her (Mireille's) daughter to the Opera.

Having accepted the invitation for tonight's opera at the Disney Hall, Fox is taking Mireille, until recently the wife of yvonne torres, including her two young daughters, student of the Lycee Francais de los Angeles.

1. until recently the wife of yvonne torres,- Modifies Mireille.
2. student of the Lycee Francais de los Angeles- Modifies Daughters.

Here read by ignoring the modifiers. We get Fox is taking Mireille, including her two young daughters. Again the including her modifies Mireille. not fox.

If you use along with it changes the meaning of the sentence, It says fox is taking her two daughters and Mireille to the Opera. Along with Modifies Fox instead of Mireille- So this is wrong

Sentence is correct as is. so answer is A. :)



including after the comma should modify the complete phrase rather Mireille. Please correct me if I am wrong.
I choose B.
Can somebody explain why B is wrong.
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Re: Having accepted the invitation for tonight's opera at the Disney Hall, [#permalink] Having accepted the invitation for tonight's opera at the Disney Hall,   30 Jan 2014, 07:25
Hey

I agreee with your explanations for A, but shouldn't it be students AT the school?

Normally, if someone talks about studying or working, it is always I work AT abc or I study AT harvard. Is it because it is a noun not a verb?
So it would be I am an employee OF abc and I am a student OF harvard?
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Re: Having accepted the invitation for tonight's opera at the Disney Hall, [#permalink] Having accepted the invitation for tonight's opera at the Disney Hall,   05 Mar 2015, 03:43
Bakhtior wrote:
I was stucked to choose one of the two confusing words, and I couldn't find the explanation of the difference.

Explain please :?:


I don't think that this is a typical GMAT SC question because of the lack of clarity in the meaning of the sentence.

Looks like both A and B are correct.

In any case how do we know whose daughters are we talking about ?

What is the antecedent for HER?

Can someone explain?
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Re: Having accepted the invitation for tonight's opera at the Disney Hall, [#permalink] Having accepted the invitation for tonight's opera at the Disney Hall,   02 Dec 2015, 04:58
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Even though I marked the answer as B, after reading the sentence again I think A is correct.

Mark is taking Mireille, including her children.
If you think of it, Mark is taking the lady out, the children tag along. They are with Mirielle. Mark is into Mereielle, kids are free with the package :lol:

If you change the statement to - Mark is taking Mirielle, along with her children.
To me this sounds more like, the children are of greater importance. Mark wants to take the kids as priority, Mirielle tags along.

What are your thoughts!

+1 Kudos if this helped! :-D
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Re: Having accepted the invitation for tonight's opera at the Disney Hall, [#permalink] Having accepted the invitation for tonight's opera at the Disney Hall,   25 Aug 2020, 09:36
GMATNinja Yo could you clear this up ?
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