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On June 6, 1945, Allied commanders sent about 156,000 troops to the coast of France in  Normandy and hoped a successful assault would ultimately lead to the eventual defeat of German forces throughout Europe.

a. Normandy and hoped a successful assault would ultimately lead to the eventual defeat of German forces throughout Europe

b. Normandy and hope a successful assault would ultimately lead to the defeat of German forces throughout Europe

c. Normandy, and they hoped a successful victorious assault would ultimately lead to the defeat of German forces throughout Europe

d. Normandy, and they hoped this successful assault would ultimately lead to the defeat of German forces throughout Europe

e. Normandy, and they hoped a successful assault would ultimately lead to the defeat of German forces throughout Europe

E is the correct answer and I have chosen A as the correct. As per the explanation for option A, this option lacks a direct subject for "hoped" --  The clause containing hoped lacks a clear subject and the phrase ultimately lead to the eventual defeat is redundant. Subject-verb agreement. Redundancy. .

option E is correct as it has "they" before the verb "hoped". I fail to understand why Allied commanders is not a clear subject for "hoped" in option A. I cannot also understand why " they" in option E is unambiguous as troops can also be referred by "they". Is it because the word -troops is present in a prepositional phrase "  about 156,000 troops.  so this cannot be a subject and they unambiguously refer to allied commanders then.

P.S. This question is taken from a prep company question and marked it as 700 level as this question is mentioned as a hard question.

Regards,
Arup Sarkar

Gagoosh · Answer

On June 6, 1945, Allied commanders sent about 156,000 troops to the coast of France in Normandy and hoped a successful assault would ultimately lead to the eventual defeat of German forces throughout Europe.

Hi Arup, 
the choice A is wrong for 2 reasons - No subject for hoped and redundancy (ultimately and eventually). If you even attempt to correct it by removing redundancy, you will see that B has parallelism error, C has meaning change, D has meaning change ( a assualt versus this assualt ), making choice E as a clear winner. In choice E, the independent clause starts with a comma and ( ,and) followed by a clear subject "they". Agreed it has ambiguity, but then you have to realise it's not an official question (nothing beats it).

it's a good question, i wouldn't call it a 700 though.

Please press kudos if that helped.

Nkemjika · Answer

they in e causes ambiguity. the commander or the the troop hoped.

a is certainly the commander hoped

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hiranmay · Answer

On June 6, 1945, Allied commanders sent about 156,000 troops to the coast of France in  Normandy and hoped a successful assault would ultimately lead to the eventual defeat of German forces throughout Europe .

a. Normandy and hoped a successful assault would ultimately lead to the  eventual  defeat of German forces throughout Europe

b. Normandy and  hope  a successful assault would ultimately lead to the defeat of German forces throughout Europe

c. Normandy, and they hoped a successful  victorious  assault would ultimately lead to the defeat of German forces throughout Europe

d. Normandy, and they hoped  this  successful assault would ultimately lead to the defeat of German forces throughout Europe

e. Normandy, and they hoped a successful assault would ultimately lead to the defeat of German forces throughout Europe -->  correct

anuj04 · Answer

I think usage of "they" is ambiguous. A seems the best among all. Commanders are the subject of HOPED. Parallelism is maintained as well in A.

A is the answer.

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Leo8 · Answer

On June 6, 1945, Allied commanders sent about 156,000 troops to the coast of France in  Normandy and hoped a successful assault would ultimately lead to the eventual defeat of German forces throughout Europe.

Cutting the fluff..

Allied sent troops and hoped <a successful assault would  ultimately  lead to the  eventual  defeat of german>

Ultimately & eventual are redundant

b. Normandy and  hope     a successful assault would ultimately lead to the defeat of German forces throughout Europe

c. Normandy, and they hoped a  successful victorious   assault would ultimately lead to the defeat of German forces throughout Europe

d. Normandy, and they hoped  this successful  assault would ultimately lead to the defeat of German forces throughout Europe
 the original statement is describing a condition to defeat the german forces.. This statement gurantees that this assualt will lead defeat. Unjustified change of meaning '

e. Normandy, and they hoped a successful assault would ultimately lead to the defeat of German forces throughout Europe

ArupRS · Answer

Hello Gagoosh,
 
Thanks for your answer. I am also doubtful whether it is a 700 level question or not. I mentioned as the prep company marked this question very hard so I labeled this as 700.

Since E has ambiguity so shouldn't be A a better choice given it has only redundancy error but no grammatical error.

- Regards,
Arup Sarkar

ArupRS · Answer

Hello Leo,
so in option E, "They" is unambiguous. is it true? please explain .

vaibhav1221 · Answer

A cannot be correct. 'they' unambiguously refers back to the subject - Allied Commanders. Even if that were incorrect, Option A would've been incorrect because it is redundant - ultimately...eventually.

vikramverma · Answer

They is unambiguous. As they is the subject of 2nd clause, it can jump and refer to the subject of first clause.

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thaya · Answer

I thought "they" in option E is ambiguous

santorasantu · Answer

Allied commanders sent .......and hoped would be the right in my opinion. Why would one complicate the sentence and again use they? What is wrong with A? Please help!

KarishmaB · Answer

You use either "ultimately" or "eventual" but not both.

For example, you cannot say "I want both A and B too."
Either say "I want both A and B" or say "I want A and B too"

So (A) is not correct. 
(E) maintains parallelism too and is correct.

santorasantu · Answer

Thanks, missed to read "eventual". Time for new glasses!

GMAT215 · Answer

On June 6, 1945, Allied commanders sent about 156,000 troops to the coast of France in  Normandy and hoped a successful assault would ultimately lead to the eventual defeat of German forces throughout Europe.

a.  Normandy and hoped  a successful assault would ultimately lead to the eventual defeat of German forces throughout Europe

b.  Normandy and hope a  successful assault would ultimately lead to the defeat of German forces throughout Europe

c. Normandy, and they hoped a  successful victorious assault  would ultimately lead to the defeat of German forces throughout Europe

d. Normandy, and they hoped  this  successful assault would ultimately lead to the defeat of German forces throughout Europe

e. Normandy, and they hoped a successful assault would ultimately lead to the defeat of German forces throughout Europe

IMO e

siddharthfrancis · Answer

Is it really an official GMAT question ?? where can i get them ??

Kinshook · Answer

On June 6, 1945, Allied commanders sent about 156,000 troops to the coast of France in  Normandy and hoped a successful assault would ultimately lead to the eventual defeat of German forces throughout Europe.

a. Normandy and hoped a successful assault would  ultimately  lead to the  eventual  defeat of German forces throughout Europe

b. Normandy and  hope  a successful assault would ultimately lead to the defeat of German forces throughout Europe

c. Normandy, and they hoped a  successful victorious  assault would ultimately lead to the defeat of German forces throughout Europe

d. Normandy, and they hoped  this  successful assault would ultimately lead to the defeat of German forces throughout Europe

e. Normandy, and  they hoped  a successful assault would ultimately lead to the defeat of German forces throughout Europe

IMO E

CRACKGMATNUT · Answer

I think ambiguity of "They" should weigh higher in SC than redundancy of ultimately and eventually?

Please correct me if I am wrong if there's any exception to they ambiguity here.

TIA!!

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Ritik25 · Answer

Not sure why D is wrong here, is it because of ambiguous use of "this"?

Abhishek009 · Answer

Normandy, and they hoped a  successful victorious  assault would ultimately lead to the  defeat  of German forces throughout Europe

The sentence is wordy and hence in the presence of option (E) can be rejected !!!

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