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The governing council met over the weekend to continue talks over appointing ministers to run the government so as to avoid public anger at deteriorating services.

A. so as to avoid
B. and so could they avoid
C. so that they could avoid
D. so that it could avoid
E. in order that it could avoid

Someone please explain the use of 'so as to' with examples.
Now this does not mean the answer is A. :wink:
So please go ahead and give your answers.



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The governing council met over the weekend to continue talks 01 Jul 2006, 05:24
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The governing council met over the weekend to continue talks over appointing ministers to run the government so as to avoid public anger at deteriorating services.

A. so as to avoid
B. and so could they avoid
C. so that they could avoid
D. so that it could avoid
E. in order that it could avoid

Someone please explain the use of 'so as to' with examples.
Now this does not mean the answer is A. :wink:
So please go ahead and give your answers.
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D.

So as to is never correct on GMAT. I guess that they consider it redundant. The only acceptable usage of this idiom is so X as to Y.

Please, use underlining in your posts.
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The governing council met over the weekend to continue talks 01 Jul 2006, 12:31
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Selected A - but if 'so as to' is one of the GMAT taboos then its D.

Deowl, could you please elaborate on that?
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The governing council met over the weekend to continue talks 02 Jul 2006, 02:35
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I'm joining with paddyboy in his question to Deowl.
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The governing council met over the weekend to continue talks 02 Jul 2006, 05:15
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Well, guys. Since it is not an actual GMAT question, (A) could be an answer. But, from my own , and from many others', experience GMAT writers never use so as to in correct answers. I do not have clear
explanation for this, but you can checkit youself in 1000SC or OG. May be they consider it redundant because in most cases it could be substituted with to. Honestly, I don't know. Once again, it is my personal observation and you are on your own here.
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The governing council met over the weekend to continue talks 03 Jul 2006, 03:25
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Completely agree with deowl.......

so as to is never used in GMAT in this form........ its mostly wrong if you see this structure....... the real structure as put by deowl is So X as to B.

Did lot of mistakes to get this thing ingrained in my brain.

The answer should be D
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The governing council met over the weekend to continue talks 14 Jul 2006, 08:52
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"it" refers to the council.

(D)

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Agree with D but would like to know how it refers to only the council, it could possibly refer to the government also
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D seems fine here... all others either have pronoun reference problem or "so as to" is incorrect

OA?
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The governing council met over the weekend to continue talks 15 Jul 2006, 07:06
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"it" refers to the council.

(D)

:24

Agree with D but would like to know how it refers to only the council, it could possibly refer to the government also
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The council met......... so that it could avoid ........

the ...... in between is just describing the purpose of the meeting. The government is clearly not the subject of the sentence so the pronoun "it" does have a clear referent.



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