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25 Sep 2014, 07:39
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In MGMAT, there is a question to fix the following setence:
The petroleum distillates were so viscous, the engineers had to heat the pipe by nearly 30 degrees.
The solution as per MGMAT is:
The petroleum distillates were so viscous that the engineers had to heat the pipe by nearly 30 degrees.
Is the following sentence grammatically and meaning-wise correct?
" The petroleum distillates were so viscous; therefore, the engineers had to heat the pipe by nearly 30 degrees."
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The petroleum distillates were so viscous, the engineers had to heat the pipe by nearly 30 degrees.
The solution as per MGMAT is:
The petroleum distillates were so viscous that the engineers had to heat the pipe by nearly 30 degrees.
Is the following sentence grammatically and meaning-wise correct?
" The petroleum distillates were so viscous; therefore, the engineers had to heat the pipe by nearly 30 degrees."
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25 Sep 2014, 08:07
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amishra1
This is an idiom related sentence. "So x... that y"
amishra1
The idea behind the idiom is to stress the gravity of the situation in the first clause and its result in the second clause. In your example, by separating the two clauses with a semicolon, you have essentially broken their relationship.
17 Jul 2017, 09:38
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One break is 'so x that y'
The other is to drop therefore and retain semi colon - that would be correct too.
The other is to drop therefore and retain semi colon - that would be correct too.
