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During an age in which most children learn basics of chess, Paul Morphy, the chess prodigy, had beaten many professional chess players.

A) During an age in which most children learn basics of chess
B) During time in which children learn most basics of chess
C) In an age when many children learn basics of chess
D) At an age when most children learn basics of chess
E) When he was as young as most children learning basics of chess
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Originally posted by LoneSurvivor on 16 Oct 2019, 06:48.
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Re: During an age in which most children learn basics of chess, Paul Morph [#permalink] New post   16 Oct 2019, 18:36
How did you split between A and D.
In my view, both seems correct. But I cancelled D because of age+when.
"during an age" versus "at an age".

Is it because of "an age"? Probably an age is indicating a particular number; therefore, the use of during may be incorrect.

Kindly help to clear my doubts.
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Re: During an age in which most children learn basics of chess, Paul Morph [#permalink] New post   16 Oct 2019, 19:48
gvij2017 wrote:
How did you split between A and D.
In my view, both seems correct. But I cancelled D because of age+when.
"during an age" versus "at an age".

Is it because of "an age"? Probably an age is indicating a particular number; therefore, the use of during may be incorrect.

Kindly help to clear my doubts.

Even I have the same doubt. Both A and D seem legible answers.
I think during an age seems to suggest a time period as general rather than time in life of children. Anyway D seems short. I think because of shortness this is the answer.
What are your thoughts about it?
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Re: During an age in which most children learn basics of chess, Paul Morph [#permalink] New post   15 Jul 2020, 08:57
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"At an age when" is the correct idiom, not "during an age". I only see during+age when referring to a specific era/period such as Age of Enlightenment, but not During A/An age.
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Re: During an age in which most children learn basics of chess, Paul Morph [#permalink] New post   17 May 2022, 19:58
D will be the answer since during age seems odd

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Re: During an age in which most children learn basics of chess, Paul Morph [#permalink] New post   19 May 2022, 06:17
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D will be the answer since during age seems odd

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Hello Arit007,

We hope this finds you well.

To provide a bit more detail here, in the construction "During an age", the term "age" refers to a span of time, typically a historical one, and in the construction "At an age", "age" refers to the chronological age of a person.

We hope this helps.
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Re: During an age in which most children learn basics of chess, Paul Morph [#permalink] New post   22 Jun 2022, 19:50
KarishmaB Ma'am,
In option B "most" modifies basics of chess. What is the meaning conveyed in this option?
Can you please elaborate?

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Re: During an age in which most children learn basics of chess, Paul Morph [#permalink] New post   22 Jun 2022, 22:03
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KarishmaB Ma'am,
In option B "most" modifies basics of chess. What is the meaning conveyed in this option?
Can you please elaborate?

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Yes, in option (B), "most" modifies "basics." So it implies that children learn most basics of chess (perhaps they don't learn all the basics of chess). Of course, the meaning makes no sense.
We want to say that most children learn the basics of chess - as done in correct option (D).
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Re: During an age in which most children learn basics of chess, Paul Morph [#permalink] New post   23 Jun 2022, 03:58
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KarishmaB Ma'am,
In option B "most" modifies basics of chess. What is the meaning conveyed in this option?
Can you please elaborate?

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Hello krndatta,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, the use of "most" to modify "basics of chess" implies that at a certain age, all children learn the majority of the basics of chess, but not all of the basics; the intended meaning, of course, is that at a certain age, the majority of children, but not all of them, learn all the basics of chess.

We hope this helps.
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