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SC - GMATPrep [#permalink] New post   17 Dec 2007, 05:55
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Re: SC - GMATPrep [#permalink] New post   17 Dec 2007, 09:01
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gregspirited wrote:
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Anything wrong with 'A'

No - A is correct. It's the only one in which all of the verb tenses agree. "having been prescribed" is an example of the past perfect progressive tense, which is used to indicate that a continuing action in the past began before another past action began or interrupted the first action. In other words, the patients aren't responding to a particular therapy because they "received" - past tense - the wrong thing - because they were "prescribed" the wrong thing. They were prescribed the wrong thing BEFORE receiving the wrong thing. All action is in the past, but one occurred before the other. And "having been" indicates the action was ongoing. I think I'm right on this.
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Re: SC - GMATPrep [#permalink] New post   17 Dec 2007, 17:32
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A maintains parallelism too.
actually this can be done more achieved by POE , its quick to eliminate others and we are left with only one choice A.
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Re: SC - GMATPrep [#permalink] New post   19 Dec 2007, 21:48
Def A.

POE is the best method here. Also ||ism is a key indicator as well.

having been + having been
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Re: SC - GMATPrep [#permalink] New post   20 Dec 2007, 11:13
Two examples are given:
1. drug prescribed at too low a dosage
2. taken off the drug too soon.

The sentense has to make sense even in the absence of one example.

Now check A -

having, for example, been..., or, having been..

remove the highlighted portion and we are left with - "having, for example, having been" - which does not make sense.

Check C -
for example, having.. , or, being..

remove the highlighted portion now and we are left with - "for example, being taken off.."

Although being is usually not preferred in GMAT, but, in this case doesn't it makes C sound better than A?

What is OA?
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Re: SC - GMATPrep [#permalink] New post   20 Dec 2007, 20:41
namurad wrote:
Two examples are given:
1. drug prescribed at too low a dosage
2. taken off the drug too soon.

The sentense has to make sense even in the absence of one example.

Now check A -

having, for example, been..., or, having been..

remove the highlighted portion and we are left with - "having, for example, having been" - which does not make sense.

Check C -
for example, having.. , or, being..

remove the highlighted portion now and we are left with - "for example, being taken off.."

Although being is usually not preferred in GMAT, but, in this case doesn't it makes C sound better than A?

What is OA?


In C, is not that ? as & for example mean the samething - redundant
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Re: SC - GMATPrep [#permalink] New post   25 Dec 2007, 01:53
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A is correct, though for a moment it deters you from choosing it as the answer because of the Present Perfect Continuous Tense.
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Re: SC - GMATPrep [#permalink] New post   25 Dec 2007, 19:52
OA is A
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Re: SC - GMATPrep [#permalink] New post   25 Dec 2007, 23:24
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why B is wrong..? is it wrong only because the first part has PERFECT TENSE, so the second part should also have perfect tense?

thank you for you kind reply
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Re: SC - GMATPrep [#permalink] New post   26 Dec 2007, 19:35
I also chose A.

B/C were eliminated since they had "being"
D needed a conjunction between two sentences
E was wordy and had llism problems.
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Re: SC - GMATPrep [#permalink] New post   29 Dec 2007, 15:10
A for maintaining parallelism in the verb tenses.



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