Mahmoudfawzy83 wrote:
Hi
generisI will try to remember an exact citation and return to you. I am learning by myself, so I went through numerous videos and articles from different sources.
but before that, but I think the highlighted sentence, which I wrote, is not accurate enough.
My understanding so far is that we should stick to the logical meaning intended by the author, even if the author misinterpreted it by incorrect wording.
In our example above, the author's wording is correct and logical (in my opinion);
but sentence "2" has correct wording but different meaning which make it not right (in my opinion).
If my understanding is wrong, please clarify.
and thanks for your engagement and activity. This isn't the first time to learn from you something new.
Mahmoudfawzy83 ,
DmitryFarber ,
here, stated what I consider the best "rule":
use all five choices to determine the intended meaning.
I will give you three examples that I found quickly (read: there may be better examples, but these will suffice).
The questions I mention below can be found from
this directory page.Click on the title that I reference.
On the new page, find the question number.
When you click on the link, the question's topic thread opens.
In
OG 2018, look at SC #741 (in which A's meaning is nonsensical and opposite from that intended)
and at SC #781 (in which option A's logic is both incredibly confusing and not the intended meaning)
If you have access to
the Official Guide Verbal Review 2019, look at SC #213, in which the author of the OE writes,
"It is difficult to tell which parts of this sentence go together because of errors and confusion in [Option A]."
Spoiler alert, correct answer to official question revealed: In short, the correct answer tells us the intended meaning.
Sure, if option A is garbled and illogical, we can try to infer the meaning from the errors.
But option A is not the intended meaning.
Hope that analysis helps.
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