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The spraying of pesticides can be carefully planned, but accidents,

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The spraying of pesticides can be carefully planned, but accidents, [#permalink] New post   05 Aug 2021, 07:28
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NareshGargMBA wrote:
Can we conclude that in questions such as these, in which we're stuck between choices such as [b] and [E], and the only difference is between the choices is the Correct idiomatic usage, it's always better to go with the idiom used in the original sentence if we're not confident about either of them?

Hi Naresh, idiomatic usage is not the only difference between B and E.

The pronoun they in option E does not have any valid antecedent in E and (believe it or not) this is a very big deal on GMAT SC.

p.s. It is extremely unlikely that idiomatic usage is the only difference between two choices on GMAT.
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Re: The spraying of pesticides can be carefully planned, but accidents, [#permalink] New post   05 Aug 2021, 19:26
I was between B and D. When I encounter something like this and the timer is reaching the upper acceptable limit, I begin using my ear instead of rules. B sounded better than D and therefore I chose B. Using your ear is not ideal; but, when you are running out of time on a question and you must move on, it may be your best bet.
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Re: The spraying of pesticides can be carefully planned, but accidents, [#permalink] New post   06 Sep 2021, 10:31
Is D incorrect only because its verbose? Or am I missing something here?
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Re: The spraying of pesticides can be carefully planned, but accidents, [#permalink] New post   06 Sep 2021, 11:36
Rasalghul853 wrote:
Is D incorrect only because its verbose? Or am I missing something here?


Because it has the same number of words and one more character than the right answer? No, this is definitely not about verbosity, which is not something we particularly care about on the GMAT.
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Re: The spraying of pesticides can be carefully planned, but accidents, [#permalink] New post   11 Sep 2021, 06:15
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Is D incorrect only because its verbose? Or am I missing something here?

Check out our (admittedly unsatisfying) post about (D) here!
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Re: The spraying of pesticides can be carefully planned, but accidents, [#permalink] New post   23 Sep 2021, 09:37
Option D uses unforeseeable(adjective) as a noun that's why it is wrong.
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The spraying of pesticides can be carefully planned, but accidents, [#permalink] New post   11 Nov 2021, 21:55
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I got this question right but still I have a doubt

Active voices are those in which subject performs the action now how can " weather conditions that could not be foreseen" this sentence is in active voice.
Weather condition is not performing any actions. Can you please explain where am I wrong?

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Re: The spraying of pesticides can be carefully planned, but accidents, [#permalink] New post   11 Nov 2021, 22:13
Hi AnthonyRitz

Thanks for the reply but didn't understand.

Please see the below two sentences
"weather conditions that cannot be foreseen" and " weather conditions that are not foreseeable"

Now first sentence is in active voice and second sentence is in passive voice.

What I have learnt about active voice is - The subject of the sentence performs the action.
But in the above first sentence "weather condition" is not performing any action then how it is in active voice.

In short what I know is - if you want to differentiate between Active and passive voice then see if the subject is performing or not. If subject is performing action then it is active else passive.
Is there any other way also to differentiate between active and passive?

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The spraying of pesticides can be carefully planned, but accidents, [#permalink] New post   11 Nov 2021, 22:17
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I got this question right but still I have a doubt

Active voices are those in which subject performs the action now how can " weather conditions that could not be foreseen" this sentence is in active voice.
Weather condition is not performing any actions. Can you please explain where am I wrong?

Thanks alot mentors for always helping.

Hi Vatsal7794,

You are not wrong. Could not be foreseen is in the passive voice.

1. X could not foresee Y. ← Active

2. Y could not be foreseen by X. ← Passive



Hi AjiteshArun

Thanks for the respond.

X is performing the action of prediction that's why it is in active voice. Right?
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Re: The spraying of pesticides can be carefully planned, but accidents, [#permalink] New post   11 Nov 2021, 22:39
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My point is: Is there an issue of //ism here? Or are we trying to create a pseudo //ism by fancying something? In matters of list //islm, if you apply a tenet of //ism for one arm, then you must do that for all the rest too. Now in this case, you can not apply //ism of ‘Can be carefully planned’, to ‘weather conditions that cannot be foreseen’ alone. You must also parallelize other arms by saying some thing similar to “accidents that can not be prevented and pilot errors that can not be eliminated” etc” None of the choices does that. So parallelism is not the issue here.

The only difference between B and E is the way the weather conditions have been described. It is a question of idiom. B is better because, it uses the active voice ‘can not be seen’ instead of the passive ‘that are not foreseeable’.

This is simply a question of pronoun error and idiom


AnthonyRitz

Sorry for being bit irritable. Please see the above comment by Daagh Sir. "B is better because, it uses the active voice ‘can not be seen" Because of the bold face I was insisting the first sentence is in the active voice.
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The spraying of pesticides can be carefully planned, but accidents, [#permalink] New post   12 Nov 2021, 04:33
There is lot of issues in this sentence.

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The spraying of pesticides can be carefully planned, but accidents, weather conditions that could not be foreseen, and pilot errors often cause much larger deposits of spray than they had anticipated.

(A) weather conditions that could not be foreseen, and pilot errors often cause much larger deposits of spray than they had

(B) weather conditions that cannot be foreseen, and pilot errors often cause much larger deposits of spray than

(C) unforeseeable weather conditions, and pilot errors are the cause of much larger deposits of spray than they had

(D) weather conditions that [color=#ff0000]are not foreseeable[/color], and pilot errors often cause much larger deposits of spray than

(E) unforeseeable weather conditions, and pilot errors often cause much larger deposits of spray than they had


I think from the intended meaning of the sentence we can infer that
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Accidents, unforeseeable weather conditions, and pilot errors is a lot that causes X
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Issues: They do not have any antecedent, and had is not required as there is no item in the sentence with a timeline of "very past (had)" then"past (past tense)" in terms of intended meaning.

Also in "D" the 2nd item weather conditions that are not foreseeable[/color] is not grammatically/structurally parallel with other item which are noun or noun phrases, as the said item is a clause with subject (weather) and (are)verb.

Hence B
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