Verbal Question of the Day Chat Group

I’m not able to solve sc question

not even 1

Again, this is because you are lacking in fundamentals, and need to practice them. If you don’t want to pay for a course, there are many guides here for each question type and section, so you can try and follow along those as well

Responding to the worsening famine, relief efforts were provided by the United States to assist by airlifting food from nearby Kenya to remote airfields in the interior of Somalia for distribution, thus bypassing congested ports and reducing the need to send out convoys.

A. Responding to the worsening famine, relief was provided by the United States by airlifting food from nearby Kenya to remote airfields in the interior of Somalia for distribution, and bypassing congested ports and reducing the need to send out convoys
B. Responding to the worsening famine, the United States provided relief by airlifting food from nearby Kenya to remote airfields in the interior of Somalia for distribution, and bypassing congested ports and reducing the need to send out convoys
C. Responding to the worsening famine, the United States provided relief by airlifting food from nearby Kenya to remote airfields in the interior of Somalia for distribution, bypassing congested ports and reducing the need to send out convoys
D. Responding to the worsening famine, the United States decided to provide relief by airlifting food from nearby Kenya to remote airfields in the interior of Somalia for distribution, thus bypassing congested ports and reducing the need to send out convoys.
E. Responding to the worsening famine, relief provided by the United States to airlift food from nearby Kenya to remote airfields in the interior of Somalia for distribution, thus bypassing congested ports and reducing the need to send out convoys

The OA to this question is C.
But I am not sure how airlifting food from nearby Kenya to remote airfields in the interior of Somalia for distribution, bypassing congested ports and reducing the need to send out convoys can be treated as parallel.
Doesn’t it distort the meaning?

IMO the answer is C.

Bypassing and reducing are parallel and I think bypassing is modifying the preceding clause

Also, The US comes after the comma which means the US is responding to the famine

One of the functions of comma+verb-ing is that it will modify the subject and action of the main clause. In the question, "bypassing" is modifying how the "US provided relief", in which subject being the US and the action done by it being "provided". Simply put, "bypassing" is elaborating on the "how" part of the action done by the subject. Hope this helps! )

Makes sense, they are not three lists in parallel. Thanks a lot.

Glad you understood 😃

A flock of geese fly high, sually in a specific formation) communicate with other flocks in light, and land in droves

(A) A flock of geese fly high, usually in a specific formation, communicate with other flocks in flight, and land in droves. (B) A flock of geese flies high, usually in a specific formation, communicate with other

flocks in flight, and land in droves. (C) A flock of geese fly high, usually in a specific formation, communicates with other flocks in flight, and land in droves.

(D) A flock of geese flies high, usually in a specific formation, communicates with other

flocks in flight, and land in droves.

(E) A flock of geese flies high, usually in a specific formation, communicates with othe flocks in flight, and lands in droves.

E? IMO A flock of geese is singular, so we should have "communicates" and "lands" in the list. Only E satisfies this condition.

CR Questions July - 6 :

Q1. In ancient Greece, court witnesses were not crossexamined and the jury, selected from the citizenry, received no guidance on points of law; thus, it was extremely important for litigants to make a good impression on the jurors. For this reason, courtroom oratory by litigants is a good source of data on the common conceptions of morality held by the citizens of ancient Greece.

Which one of the following, if true, would most strengthen the argument?

(A) Litigants believed jurors were more likely to be impressed by litigants whose personality they preferred.

(B) Litigants believed jurors were more likely to subject the litigants’ personal moral codes to close critical scrutiny than were people who did not sit on juries.

(C) Litigants believed jurors were likely to be impressed by litigants whose professed moral code most resembled their own.

(D) Litigants believed jurors to be more impressed by litigants who were of the same economic class as the jurors.

(E) Litigants believed jurors were likely to render their decisions based on a good understanding of the law.

Q2. Some educators endorse the "look and say" method for teaching elementary school children how to read. This approach is also known as the "whole language method" because it trains students to recognize each word as a single entity. For this reason, it affords a degree of fluency with known words: when a student has memorized a word, she will be able to recognize and read it in future encounters. This method fails, however, to prepare students to decipher new words: a student who has not previously encountered and learned a word will not be able to read it and will therefore be limited to her range of known "word patterns." Given the significant deficiency of this method, teachers should use a phonics-based approach, which trains students to decode or "sound out" words from the letters that comprise them. It offers a major advantage over the "look and say" method by allowing a student to read and understand words that she has not encountered in print before.


In the argument above, the two highlighted sentences play which of the following roles?

A. The first summarizes a position that the author opposes; the second supports the author’s recommendation.

B. The first states the main point of the argument; the second provides evidence for that conclusion.

C. The first provides support for a position that the author ultimately rejects; the second serves as evidence for the author’s recommendation.

D. The first supports the conclusion for the position with which the author disagrees; the second states the overall conclusion of the argument.

E. The first states the conclusion of the argument; the second provides support for that conclusion.




Difficulty - Hard

Is the answer for this available?

Solve this q last month. Here’s my take to this one in-ancient-greece-court-witnesses-were-not-crossexamined-and-the-jury-297832.html#p3216626

IMO the correct answer is C.

Not sure but IMO the correct one is option A

IMO, I would choose Option C. The first highlighted portion supports the initial theory but he later on goes to recommend a different method altogether, as seen in the second highlighted portion.


Option C