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The doctors' growing success in treating the Acpias Virus [#permalink] New post   04 Mar 2022, 01:07
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The doctors' growing success in treating the Acpias Virus and the recently developed vaccine suggest that this disease might not be as virulent as the press initially reported

A) vaccine suggest that this disease might not be as virulent as the press initially reported

B) vaccine suggests that this disease might not be so virulent as the press initially has reported

C) vaccine suggest that this disease might not be as virulent as had been initially reported by the press

D) vaccine, suggesting about this disease that it might not be as virulent as initially reported in the press

E) vaccine, suggesting that this disease might not be as virulent as initially reported to be by the press
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Re: The doctors' growing success in treating the Acpias Virus [#permalink] New post   04 Mar 2022, 01:10
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Re: The doctors' growing success in treating the Acpias Virus [#permalink] New post   04 Mar 2022, 01:35
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My answer is (A). It took me 01:04.

(A) No major issue. Keep for now.
(B) Subject is plural (success and vaccine), so "suggests" should be "suggest"
(C) Very similar with (A). Keep for now.
(DE) Not a sentence: there is no main verb for the supposed subject.

The difference between (A) and (C) are the verb tense used in the as clause. Should we pick (A) for simple past tense or (C) for past perfect tense?
Because past perfect tense should be used with a simple past tense somewhere else (and because I treat might as a model verb rather than a helper verb to indicate simple past tense), I pick (A) over (C).
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Re: The doctors' growing success in treating the Acpias Virus [#permalink] New post   04 Mar 2022, 06:38
Conflict between a and c. Picked c because of something happened before current view that the virus isnt that virulent as BEFORE it was suggested.
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Re: The doctors' growing success in treating the Acpias Virus [#permalink] New post   15 Mar 2022, 16:49
I don't understand A vs C.

C clearly has past perfect tense which is required to indicate an event already completed.

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The doctors' growing success in treating the Acpias Virus [#permalink] New post   15 Mar 2022, 17:57
Why I chose A over C is because the use of past perfect tense is not required as the sequence can be clearly understood through the word “initially”

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Re: The doctors' growing success in treating the Acpias Virus [#permalink] New post   15 Mar 2022, 23:19
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somyamehta777 wrote:
Why I chose A over C is because the use of past perfect tense is not required as the sequence can be clearly understood through the word “initially”

This reasoning might be slightly debatable Soumya. There are numerous official questions that use past perfect, despite the presence of clear "time markers".

For example:

In the 1940s popular magazines in the United States began to report on the private lives of persons from the entertainment industry, whereas previously these publications had featured articles on individuals in business and politics.

Notice the usage of past perfect ("had featured") despite the usage of time marker "previously".
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