AbdurRakib wrote:
The Official Guide for GMAT Verbal Review 2018Practice QuestionSentence Correction
Question no. 212
The treasury market dropped in response to a decrease in the value of the dollar and to continued concern
that the economy might be growing as fast as to accelerate inflation and drive interest rates higher.
(A) that the economy might be growing as fast as
(B) that the economy might be growing fast enough
(C) with the economy’s possibly growing so fast as
(D) with the possibility of the economy growing fast enough so as
(E) with the possibility of the economy possibly growing fast enough
choice C
"growing " goes with "economy's" so, it is a gerund. if "growing" is a gerund, which contain some but not all features of a noun , it can not go with adverb "fast". C is gone ̣ (you should review the term gerund, participle and verbal noun. this is hard point of grammar but it is basic and gmat want to test us. take time
choice E and D
"possibility +that-clause " is correct. possibility that I pass gmat with high score for havard is real.
"possibility +of +noun" is correct if the noun is action noun . "possibility of I" is incorrect. "possibility of my sucess/failure/ learning' is correct
so, choice E and D use a noun showing name of entity, but not an action. they are wrong
choice A.
if we use "as fast as", the sentence following this phrase must be a fact
I have learned gmat as fast as I used to learn mathematics.
I can not say
I have learned gmat as fast as I will learn it.
the meaning inhere is future, so, "as fast as " is not fit. choice A is gone
second error.
"as fast as" signal comparison and so, we need parallelism to get logic. we don see parallelism here
choice A means
the economy might be growing as fast as it might be growing to accelerate inflation. absurd.
̣̣̣we apply ellipsis rule to make above sentence. the cut off part must be appear in the first part of comparison. this rule makes comparison problem hard for us.
if we see comparison, check whether the remaining part of the second part of comparison has the same grammatical role as the coresponding part of the first part of comparison.
so, choice A has 2 errors.
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