That many young people were not exposed to the wealth of culture in fo

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That many young people were not exposed to the wealth of culture in foreign lands by studying abroad while still in school cannot legitimately be put forth that it is their fault  as such opportunities are often predicated on the availability of funds, the encouragement of family, and the prevalence of foreign courses which speak to specific fields of study.

A) That many young people were not exposed to the wealth of culture in foreign lands by studying abroad while still in school cannot legitimately be put forth that it is their fault

B) That many young people were not exposed to the wealth of culture in foreign lands by studying abroad while still in school cannot legitimately be put forth to be their fault

C) It cannot be legitimately put forth that it is the fault of young people who were not exposed to the wealth of culture in foreign lands by studying abroad while still in school

D) It cannot legitimately be put forth that young people are at fault for not being exposed to the wealth of culture in foreign lands by studying abroad while still in school

E) The fact that young people are at fault for not being exposed to the wealth of culture in foreign lands by studying abroad while still in school cannot legitimately be put forth

MartyTargetTestPrep · Accepted Answer

A)That many young people were not exposed to the wealth of culture in foreign lands by studying abroad while still in school cannot legitimately be put forth that it is their fault

If you look carefully at A, you will see that it uses two subjects and two verbs where only one of each is needed.

First Subject: That many young people were not exposed to the wealth of culture in foreign lands by studying abroad while still in school

Second Subject: it

First Verb: cannot ... be put forth

Second Verb: is

"it is" is completely redundant. We already have the subject and verb that we need.

To make choice A work, we would have to delete "it is" and create a version like the following one, which still isn't great, but, at least, it makes some sense and has only one subject and one verb:

Edited Version of (A) That many young people were not exposed to the wealth of culture in foreign lands by studying abroad while still in school cannot legitimately be put forth as the fault of those young people

B)That many young people were not exposed to the wealth of culture in foreign lands by studying abroad while still in school cannot legitimately  be put forth to be their fault

The issue with B is that "put forth" is not followed by something that makes sense with "put forth".

"To put forth" means to suggest or to bring to notice. You put forth  something , a noun.

Example: The professor put forth the idea that students who were not exposed to the wealth of culture while studying abroad were at fault.

In that example, the professor put something out there, an idea.

So, we always put forth a noun, something.

We could put forth an idea or a proposal, or, perhaps, we could put forth something AS something else.

Example: John put forth that the flowerpot was knocked over as evidence that the cat was playing with the plants.

We would not however "put forth" something "to be" something.

Incorrect Example: John put forth that the flowerpot was knocked over  to be  evidence that the cat was playing with the plants.

Consider choice D to see "put forth" followed by something that makes sense with "put forth".

D)It cannot legitimately be put forth that young people are at fault for not being exposed to the wealth of culture in foreign lands by studying abroad while still in school

Choice D conveys that "that young people are at fault" is being "put forth".

"that young people are at fault" is a noun phrase, and is an idea, the idea "that young people are at fault".

What was put forth? That young people are at fault.

Sachin9 · Answer

D is crisp and clear and brings out the meaning lucidly.

Archit143 · Answer

Can anyone comment why is B wrong!!!!!!1111
is it that it use only one that of "That x , that Y"
I could not find any mistake

govols · Answer

D is correct. It's the only one that gets the meaning of the sentence correctly across.

For B - I don't know if this is a rule on the GMAT, but I would say you usually don't want to start any sentences with "that" (the way it is used in this context). Here "that" is being used to expand on what "can't be legitimately put forth" If you put that first in the sentence the whole clause is out of place and it leaves the reader feeling confused.

The exception to putting that first would be if you're specifying a certain noun. "That school is bad" or "That test was hard".

My feeble $.02 explanation.

jlgdr · Answer

Would anyone help in eliminating answer choice C here? I'm not too sure about the use of being in the correct answer choice either. Please advice Cheers! J

rrsnathan · Answer

Usually Passive form is good to avoid in GMAT. But is accepted if it best fits than other choices.

Regards,
Swami

rrsnathan · Answer

Wrong Answer choice

B)That many young people were not exposed to the wealth of culture in foreign lands by studying abroad while still in school cannot legitimately be put forth to be  their  fault -  Confusing pronoun anticedent 
C) It  cannot be legitimately put forth that  it  is the fault of young people who were not exposed to the wealth of culture in foreign lands by studying abroad while still in school -  Redundant usage

Kudos if this helped

Regards,
Swami

prasi55 · Answer

"It cannot legitimately be put forth that" is merely a prelude to the portion of the sentence that follows it. What cannot be put forth? -- the idea that young people are at fault for  . The sentence says that the students' lack of exposure isn't really their fault.

Let's see what C is saying: 
It is (not) the fault of young people  .

See the difference? By making "who were ..." a modifier that identifies a subset of the young people, the sentence is saying: It is not the fault of the X people (where X is the modifier "who were...school").

The resulting sentence doesn't make sense. "What" is not the fault of the X people? No one knows. Why is "it" not the fault of the X people? No idea.

--Prasad

SaudKhan · Answer

any reason why E is incorrect ??

prasi55 · Answer

Dear Saud,

E is grammatically correct. However, it changes the meaning.

D says that you cannot legitimately say that the young people are at fault for not having those opportunities. D is probably a response to some folks who suggested that the young people were to blame. D is a response to a "hypothesis" that young people are at fault.

In E, "the fact that" precedes "young people are at fault" and suggests that the young people are indeed at fault but that for some unknown reason, this "fact" cannot legitimately be put forth.

--Prasad

rahul202 · Answer

Although , I got it wrong(C), but will try to explain why D is right.

A. That cannot act as placeholder, it needs antecedent.
B. Same reason.
C.   I had confusion between C n D, and went for just by looking with "were".  
were means it past tense.
being exposed is fact.

Thought original statement has were, so right ans should also have were.

Where did i go wrong?

C's meaning says It is the fault of young people(who were not exposed acts as modifier for people). Hence distorts meaning
 It cannot be legitimately put forth that it is the fault of young people  as such opportunities...
Does above makes sense? No.
D. Although D , changes the meaning a Bit, but closest one to convey exact meaning .
E. No one is saying its fact, changes the meaning

HMC · Answer

My Lesson -  Being  is not always bad - We have it in the correct answer here.

AmritaSarkar89 · Answer

I guess this is a test for concision. The OA is compact and more pleasing to the ears as compared to the others. IMO

rajatkataria14@gmail.com · Answer

Hii Experts can you provide POE for options A,B and C
I elminated A because of following reasons:-
1. Structure (legitimately be put forth that it is their fault) is somewhat less concise compared to that in D(young people are at fault )
2. I doubt whether dependent clause starting with THAT can act as subject of sentence.
I eliminated B because of similar reasons as A
 I eliminated C because
The structure (it is the fault of young people..) is less clear compared to younger people are at fault
I am expecting some better POE

adkikani · Answer

harsh2112   rajatkataria14@gmail.com

Here are my two cents:

That many young people were not exposed to the wealth of culture in foreign lands by studying abroad while still in school cannot legitimately be put forth that it is their fault  as such opportunities are often predicated on the availability of funds, the encouragement of family, and the prevalence of foreign courses which speak to specific fields of study.

A is incorrect because the active voice makes much sense to use here and two THATs are incorrect used here

Same voice error as in (A)

Why do we require the other IT. It is better to use what does this pronoun refer to as in (D)

Hope this helps.

aaba · Answer

this question has an important pattern that both veritas and ready4gmat create the similar question with the same pattern and interpretation.

DmitryFarber · Answer

Here's the official GMAT question that this is clearly modeled on: https://gmatclub.com/forum/that-educato ... %20toffler

Prateek176 · Answer

prasi55  ,  MartyMurray

Why are options A and B incorrect. Can anybody explain??

Nups1324 · Answer

Hi, Here is my explanation. For all the learners, please don't refer to it unless an expert verifies it or gives his or her opinion. GMATNinja VeritasKarishma AndrewN MartyTargetTestPrep generis EMPOWERgmatRichC AjiteshArun Request you to check my explanation and let me know how correct (if at all I am) or wrong am I. This part..."That many young people were not exposed to the wealth of culture in foreign lands by studying abroad while still in school" is an idea or a fact. (Pardon my choice of words) Example - That most humans die with regrets is a miserable truth of life. The part.. "that...regrets" is being said as a fact or an idea. So IMO the use of "their" is wrong. Because the sentence starts with an idea and there is no sensible antecedent for "their". "Their" can't goes inside that idea and refer to young people. A is out. Same problem as A. "Their" has no antecedent. Out. This option kind of changes the meaning. It says that it is the fault of young people who WERE... It tries to convey that it is the fault of a specific group of young people. Ones that didn't go abroad to study.. This correctly conveys the meaning. Especially the part "young people are at fault for not being exposed" TBH I couldn't find a solid reason to eliminate this. (Low-key hoping that my other reasons above are at least reasonable

) I was down to this and D. But I thought D was concise. "THE FACT" seem unnecessary to me and thus I eliminated E. This was my attempt to explain like GMATNinja . In terms of format of course not the knowledge. I wouldn't dare (for now)

It takes a lot of time man. Respect to all the people who post so many detailed explanation. MartyTargetTestPrep I read your explanation and it's really good. But I wanted to see how well my reasoning was. I just hope I'm not completely wrong. Hahaha. Thank you.

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