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06 Apr 2013, 06:29
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Thanks Payal for the wonderful piece of advice.
I know that Sentence Correction is all about Meaning, Logic and Concision. However, sometimes the meaning is not too apparent from the sentence, and one may fall into trap of changing the Author's intended meaning.
For example, please take a look on the below OG question:
Verbal Guide Question 82
Downzoning, zoning that typically results in the reduction of housing density, allows for more open space in areas where little water or services exist.
I have gone through your explanation on this question, and you were able to discern the meaning in the first go itself that downzoning results into areas where little water and fewer services exist. Now, while attempting this question for the first time, it would not be too apparent for me to use AND, I would have shied away from using the same, since to me it would have been a change in meaning.
Similar Question -
In theory, international civil servants at the United Nations are prohibited from continuing to draw salaries from their own governments; in practice, however, some governments merely substitute living allowances for their employees' paychecks, assigned by them to the United Nations.
Again, how one can be sure that the author would not like to talk about Paychecks but employees.
(A) for their employees™ paychecks, assigned by them
(B) for the paychecks of their employees who have been assigned
Both Choices are grammatically correct, and I know that you cannot assign paychecks to someone. You can grant someone paychecks but not assign. But, when cases like above appears, it make me nervous as to which one to go for. That is why I usually go for other workaround to make sure that the choice is incorrect for other reasons.
Any thoughts on how to answer such questions confidently.
Thanks
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06 Apr 2013, 07:07
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i guess change of meaning is allowed as long as the original sentence gives a very weird meaning .honestly every question has its own trick for the instance in the question that u have quoted option A and B are flouting the very basic of countable and non countable thing .we can have few services but little services is wrong i guess !! as for ur thing that u were thinking that "and" was giving a shift of meaning i dont think that is true. the decider was not really "and" or "or"
i guess payal has rightly said that its better if we dont make our approach very perfunctory i can explain u why----> at times we loose the plot if our approach is mechanical --->we tend to loose the meaning thing if we go a lot by rules and grammar jargons .
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i am not sure why u have said so
i read option A almost twice to decipher the meaning .B on the other hand gives me clear meaning in a simple language
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@ Payal, I need help with this sentence which uses "that"
While Jackie Robinson was a Brooklyn Dodger, his courage in the face of physical threats and verbal attacks was not unlike that of Rosa Parks, who refused to move to the back of a bus seat in Montogomery, Alabama.
My doubt is:
Is "that" referring to noun/subject "courage" and thus following "unlike" (which otherwise precedes nouns)
I am confused with this sentence using "that" after unlike
While Jackie Robinson was a Brooklyn Dodger, his courage in the face of physical threats and verbal attacks was not unlike that of Rosa Parks, who refused to move to the back of a bus seat in Montogomery, Alabama.
My doubt is:
Is "that" referring to noun/subject "courage" and thus following "unlike" (which otherwise precedes nouns)
I am confused with this sentence using "that" after unlike
