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Any idioms, rules for this one?

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Any idioms, rules for this one? [#permalink] New post   04 Dec 2003, 23:44
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Re: Any idioms, rules for this one? [#permalink] New post   05 Dec 2003, 23:12
A and E are the best.
A tries to provide 2 independent clauses..that's wrong in this context.

go with E
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Re: Any idioms, rules for this one? [#permalink] New post   06 Dec 2003, 15:31
dj wrote:
A and E are the best.
A tries to provide 2 independent clauses..that's wrong in this context.

go with E


is there appropriate closure in E

is it ok to end a sentence with demonstrates

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Re: Any idioms, rules for this one? [#permalink] New post   06 Dec 2003, 15:53
praetorian123 wrote:
dj wrote:
A and E are the best.
A tries to provide 2 independent clauses..that's wrong in this context.

go with E


is there appropriate closure in E

is it ok to end a sentence with demonstrates

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If we were to use A, we should have used two independent sentences.
..sports should not be fiscal disaster. The financial.....demonstrates this fact. ..If this were be the case, I would have chose A.
E is the continous sentence that helps explaining the opening sentence.

does this make sense :shock:
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Re: Any idioms, rules for this one? [#permalink] New post   06 Dec 2003, 19:07
I vote for D.

E "... demonstrates" what? that it WAS a disaster or it WAS NOT?

D shows parallelism also Internation events and Olympic games ... (though not sure about thi part)
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Re: Any idioms, rules for this one? [#permalink] New post   06 Dec 2003, 20:04
where is the question? i can't see it?.....

and btw is that u in the picture.. :shock:
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Re: Any idioms, rules for this one? [#permalink] New post   06 Dec 2003, 20:09
ok i see.

E looks right. but whats wrong with A. :?
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Re: Any idioms, rules for this one? [#permalink] New post   07 Dec 2003, 20:57
mY 2 cents:

Is it just me or is the first part of the sentence "Sporting events" being compared to " financial success..." and what not?
The only choice I see that makes and sense to me is B) Olympics is an example of an INternational Sporting event that is financially sucessful.

I would not as D) Praet..., purely because "...a fact demonstrated by 1992 Olympic games..." implies that they were financially successful. To say "...which were financially successful" is redundant.

K, I know everyone disagrees with me, but whats the Official answer here?



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