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That the new managing editor rose from the publication’s “soft” new se
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That the new managing editor rose from the publication's "soft" news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman.
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24 Oct 2008, 19:19
nganle08 wrote:
That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman.
A. her being a woman B. being a woman is C. her womanhood D. that she was a woman E. that she is a woman
Pls could someone tell me what the answer is and explain why. Thanks
Correct idiom is 'more X than Y' IMO answer is A. I believe second 'that' is unnecessary
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24 Oct 2008, 19:26
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nganle08 wrote:
That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman.
A. her being a woman B. being a woman is C. her womanhood D. that she was a woman E. that she is a woman
Pls could someone tell me what the answer is and explain why. Thanks
That ..... is more of a landmark is parallel with than that she is a woman.
D is wrong because it uses was where as the non underlined part uses is.
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24 Oct 2008, 19:35
nganle08 wrote:
That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman.
A. her being a woman B. being a woman is C. her womanhood D. that she was a woman E. that she is a woman
Pls could someone tell me what the answer is and explain why. Thanks
Here, parallelism error....underlined part should be parallel with......"is more of a landmark in the industry"...so E
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24 Oct 2008, 20:23
That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman.
A. her being a woman B. being a woman is C. her womanhood D. that she was a woman E. that she is a woman
A and B should not be correct. GMAT dont' like 'being'!!! I see the word 'rose' and i think that D might be correct. I picked D.
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25 Oct 2008, 11:45
nganle08 wrote:
That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman.
A. her being a woman B. being a woman is C. her womanhood D. that she was a woman E. that she is a woman
Pls could someone tell me what the answer is and explain why. Thanks
Is 'than' in the question underlined or was it underlined by mistake ? From the answer choices it seems that the underline part should start after 'than'....otherwise few of the choices doesn't make english sense at all
IMO A That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman
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26 Oct 2008, 10:45
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nganle08 wrote:
That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman.
A. her being a woman B. being a woman is C. her womanhood D. that she was a woman E. that she is a woman
Pls could someone tell me what the answer is and explain why. Thanks
I go for E.
My reasoning: Must have the 'that' because the question starts with 'that' (parallelism). Therefore eliminate ABC, remaining choices: D or E.
But D implies she was (past tense) a woman, which I think sounds odd ... once a woman, always a woman (except in cases of plastic surgery ;p) - therefore eliminate D. More scientifically, the first part "the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position" is in the present tense, therefore we should choose the same tense for the second part.
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sorry everyone. My PC broke down last weekend; thus I could not check your discussions. the OA is E. I will have to read your explanations to understand and will post my comments later. Thanks all for your participation.
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kandyhot27 wrote:
nganle08 wrote:
That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman.
A. her being a woman B. being a woman is C. her womanhood D. that she was a woman E. that she is a woman
Pls could someone tell me what the answer is and explain why. Thanks
Is 'than' in the question underlined or was it underlined by mistake ? From the answer choices it seems that the underline part should start after 'than'....otherwise few of the choices doesn't make english sense at all
IMO A That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman
Sorry, I underlined "than" by mistake. The underlined part should be only "her being a woman". OA is E.
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05 Feb 2009, 12:50
x2suresh wrote:
That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman.
A. her being a woman B. being a woman is C. her womanhood D. that she was a woman E. that she is a woman
IMO A.
Here the construction is: Something is more of X that (of) Y - Both X and Y will be objects of the sentence. So "her" is better choice over "She". Hence eliminating D and E. B has no direct object after "than" so wrong. C states different meaning because "rose from the publications soft news sections" is not stressing on the "womenhood" but rather on "her [being woman]".
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05 Feb 2009, 14:49
More of a landmark in the industry is a phrase and should be made parallel to another phrase. Of all the choices, A is a valid phrase. So I will go with A.
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That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman.
A. her being a woman B. being a woman is C. her womanhood D. that she was a woman E. that she is a woman
E is clearer and I'll never pick being unless everything else is eliminated clearly
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E for parrallelism the sentance should begin with that
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That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft news sections to a leadership position is more of a landmark in the industry than her being a woman.
A. her being a woman 'that' is missing B. being a woman is 'that' is missing
C. her womanhood 'that' is missing
D. that she was a woman E. that she is a woman Hold
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27 Oct 2009, 15:17
A - "Being" should be avoided in most cases. B - the words "being" and "is" are redundant C - Somewhat illogical. This implies that the editor's womanhood is a landmark. D - Tempting, but the word "was" doesn't fit well in this case. If the sentence was about a past editor, then maybe. However, the question stem reads "the new editor." Present tense is needed. E - Present tense "is" works here.
This was a tricky question for me. I hope this helps!
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