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08 May 2020, 00:56
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Hi adkikani
Thanks for taking time and writing point-wise details..!!
First of all, I took 3:11 minutes, a below par effort, to solve the question and posted my raw understanding - only whatever came first, within half-an-hour. I reviewed it and found couple of errors that i could not figure out and that i would have thought priority-wise. I strictly didn't edit my post for the reasons that i was not having a rock solid understanding(is there one btw?) about a few things. Also, i understand that you don't learn by simply reviewing the answer choices but from mistakes of others and a raw explanation like mine would help others to relate with their approach.
Before i proceed further a big thank to MentorTutoring for giving proper words to my understanding of the choices. Also, I like daagh sir's explanations since i like abstract explanations and they are the best ones especially for 700+ level which are what you look for in such heavily dosed questions.
Coming to answer choices. So, here's a look into my raw thought process.
1. An eight-inch plaster model is believed to have been used by Michelangelo for his sculpture of David and recently discovered after it was ....
'believed' and 'recently discovered' look far distant to be parallel since belief is age old than discovery - different timelines.
2. An eight-inch plaster model is believed to have been used by Michelangelo for his sculpture of David and recently discovered after it was ....
This is more nastier as you can see the chronology of the two possible parallel things.
Agree that discovery can be the main verb but i think you meant 'used' and 'discovered' to be parallel.
D. It was all good till the point 'AND' is reached after which things were devastating since AND requires two ICs. But then, more importantly, it was about missing of a verb. Also, the first 'it' was fine but second one had two possible antecedents - eight-inch plaster model and sculpture of David - most likely, model.
E. This is a disaster so i wrote nothing much however putting it in the same basket as D had a bigger role for not writing much. But it had greater issue with the parallelism than usage of 'it'. I'm sure you know it now what i mean.
Both D and E were open-ended choices so choosing them was not possible.
Lastly, out of five, three choices are gone for parallelism issues but by this time i had spent 3+ minutes.
But thanks to JonShukhrat for sharing those links about 'it' usage.
However, making rules out of that would be disastrous.
Happy learning...!!
Thanks for taking time and writing point-wise details..!!
First of all, I took 3:11 minutes, a below par effort, to solve the question and posted my raw understanding - only whatever came first, within half-an-hour. I reviewed it and found couple of errors that i could not figure out and that i would have thought priority-wise. I strictly didn't edit my post for the reasons that i was not having a rock solid understanding(is there one btw?) about a few things. Also, i understand that you don't learn by simply reviewing the answer choices but from mistakes of others and a raw explanation like mine would help others to relate with their approach.
Before i proceed further a big thank to MentorTutoring for giving proper words to my understanding of the choices. Also, I like daagh sir's explanations since i like abstract explanations and they are the best ones especially for 700+ level which are what you look for in such heavily dosed questions.
Coming to answer choices. So, here's a look into my raw thought process.
adkikani
Yes, it would have been better had i understood it what he has pointed. And for that reason i had bookmarked it. However, i had a gut feeling on reading that there might be two possibilities from there(using) on so i wrote open-ended. The only reason that i didn't write about that comma before using is that somewhere on the forum i read that commas are not tested in GMAT.
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There are many hinge points - SVA, parallelism, meaning etc. as we all know - based on which you can evaluate a sentence. Two ways in which i saw this one based on 'and' marker:
1. An eight-inch plaster model is believed to have been used by Michelangelo for his sculpture of David and recently discovered after it was ....
'believed' and 'recently discovered' look far distant to be parallel since belief is age old than discovery - different timelines.
2. An eight-inch plaster model is believed to have been used by Michelangelo for his sculpture of David and recently discovered after it was ....
This is more nastier as you can see the chronology of the two possible parallel things.
Agree that discovery can be the main verb but i think you meant 'used' and 'discovered' to be parallel.
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After reading E, i put D and E in same basket for how they used 'it'. But i should not do it since many-a-times GMAT plays psychologically by offering the right answer choice just after a similar looking wrong one. May be i got lucky
D. It was all good till the point 'AND' is reached after which things were devastating since AND requires two ICs. But then, more importantly, it was about missing of a verb. Also, the first 'it' was fine but second one had two possible antecedents - eight-inch plaster model and sculpture of David - most likely, model.
E. This is a disaster so i wrote nothing much however putting it in the same basket as D had a bigger role for not writing much. But it had greater issue with the parallelism than usage of 'it'. I'm sure you know it now what i mean.
Both D and E were open-ended choices so choosing them was not possible.
Lastly, out of five, three choices are gone for parallelism issues but by this time i had spent 3+ minutes.
But thanks to JonShukhrat for sharing those links about 'it' usage.
However, making rules out of that would be disastrous.
Happy learning...!!
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Could you please help in this very very difficult question.
Could you please help in this very very difficult question.
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Updated on: 16 Aug 2020, 02:35
Originally posted by Harsh2111s on 12 May 2020, 00:15.
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Hi Yatendra,
I would like to know the option you chose so that your doubt gets clear.
Anyway I hope below explanation will resolve your query. Let's look at the question.
Option A
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Here Major issue is Pronoun error.
It is believed(Michelangelo is believed had made his sculpture) doesn't make sense here.
Option B
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Use of "and" is wrong here due to following reason.
"and" is acting as separator here i.e. specify two independent events. But if look meaning wise,
1.An eight-inch plaster model is believed to have been used by Michelangelo for his sculpture of David
2.An eight-inch plaster model is recently discovered after it was lost for nearly 300 years.
Two separate events doesn't make sense in the context of sentence.
Another reason to eliminate "B" is pronoun ambiguity.
it can refer to "An eight-inch plaster model" or "sculpture of David".
Option C
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Here passive voice "An eight-inch plaster model believed to have been used by Michelangelo for his sculpture of David" is correct as per rules.
Second phase clearly explains " An eight-inch plaster model has been discovered after having been lost for nearly 300 years."
I hope it helps
