icandy wrote:
Technext wrote:
icandy wrote:
I chose E.
How do you explain the word drawback in the option A?
The Stem does not say usage of titles will help. Does not say that because they are not using titles they are losing this. It is ** possible** but not given there.
Hi icandy,
Option A states the following:
The first describes a strategy that has been adopted to avoid a certain problem; the second presents a drawback to that strategy.
IMO, the
second part of option
A doesn't even say that if corporations stop the practice of shunning titles, the communication gap will decrease. He, in fact, agrees to some extent that the shunning of titles might help in reducing internal communication barriers. The word
drawback points to some OTHER part that will get affected. That part which will have a
negative impact with the adoption of this strategy is
external businesses' dealing.
This negative impact is what the word drawback refers to. This is what I draw from the sentence.
To be doubly sure, if you go through the
last line of the excerpt (also mentioned in my explanation for option C), you will notice that
he's not against the corporations' views. It's just that he's trying to get their (corporations') attention to external businesses' dealing, which will have a negative impact because of the implementation of this strategy.
Does it make some sense now?
Regards,
Technext
No it does not as I am going word to word.
The first describes a strategy that has been adopted to avoid a certain problem;
I guess both of us agree that the strategy that is being referred to here is the practice of
Some corporations shun the use of executive titles. A draw back to the strategy would be lack of titles hinder business development with external resources or some thing on similar lines. I can't exactly say that use of titles will help facilitate business developments with external resources is a drawback. My point is the the strategy is fixed in the first part of A and it is the same strategy referred in second part of A
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1st boldface: Some corporations shun the use of executive titles
2nd boldface: use of a title can facilitate an executive’s dealings with external businesses
Option A states the following:
The first describes a strategy that has been adopted to avoid a certain problem; the second presents a drawback to that strategy.
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Hi icandy,
Yes, we both agree as to what the strategy is.
What I can infer from your comments (“A draw back to the strategy would be
lack of titles hinder business development with external resources or some thing on similar lines”) is that when you're reading the
2nd boldface statement,
it mentions a +ve statement about the 'use of titles' w.r.t. external dealings, and this +ve remark is causing problem for you.
You're thinking that the statement is mentioning something +ve, then how come it's a drawback? Isn't it? Anyone will think the same.
But it seems you’re ONLY & ONLY reading the two boldface statements. Had I read it in the same way, even I would have raised my concern as you did. As far as I know,
when we consider two boldface statements, we don’t just have to focus on them; we also have to look what’s before and what’s after them. We also have to look for reasons because of which the author mentioned those two boldface statements.
This will help us in finding out the roles that these boldfaces play.
If you disagree with me on this stand, then tell me why the need for all other sentences, or for that matter, why the need for those two sentences (which boldface fragments are part of) when only the two boldface fragments could have sufficed?
In that case, we could have simply framed the question like this:
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1st boldface: Some corporations shun the use of executive titles
2nd boldface: use of a title can facilitate an executive’s dealings with external businesses
What roles do the two boldfaces play?
Option 1) ...
Option 2) ...
Option 3) ...
Option 4) ...
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Let me know your thoughts on this?
Regards,
Technext