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Veri tas Prep 10 Year Anniversary Promo Question #6 One quant and one verbal question will be posted each day starting on Monday Sept 17th at 10 AM PST/1 PM EST and the first person to correctly answer the question and show how they arrived at the answer will win a free Veritas Prep GMAT course ($1,650 value). Winners will be selected and notified by a GMAT Club moderator. For more questions and details please check here: https://gmatclub.com/forum/veritas-prep- ... 38806.html To participate, please make sure you provide the correct answer (A,B,C,D,E) and explanation that clearly shows how you arrived at it. Winners will be announced the following day at 10 AM Pacific/1 PM Eastern Time. Good Luck! May the best and fastest win! The deer, despite having traveled hundreds of miles from their home to reach the Canadian wilderness and therefore being free to roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers , struggled to acclimate to the habitat that wildlife biologists had predicted would enable it to thrive. (A) despite having traveled hundreds of miles from their home to reach the Canadian wilderness and therefore being free to roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers (B) despite having traveled hundreds of miles from home to the Canadian wilderness where they would now be free to roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers (C) despite having traveled hundreds of miles from home to reach the Canadian wilderness that offered freedom to roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers (D) even after traveling hundreds of miles from their home to reach the Canadian wilderness where they could freely roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers (E) who had traveled hundreds of miles from home to the Canadian wilderness that would offer them freedom to roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers OA: C Explanation: This sentence is entirely about the advanced GMAT theme of “The Whole Sentence Matters”. Without recognizing the pronoun “it” toward the end of the sentence, far from the underline, you’d struggle to gain a foothold here. “Deer” is both singular and plural, so if you didn’t notice that defining singular pronoun “it” you wouldn’t be turned off by the presence of “they”, “their”, and “them” in choices A, B, D, and E. But the word “it” makes “deer” singular, and only choice C (which avoids the use of a second pronoun) can then be correct. V07-22

thevenus · Answer

(C) is the only option chosen by everyone , but with (E) i am able to find from X to Y correction ;would offer-would enable usage correct; "HAD" is correctly used to maintain the intent of the author about the time tense.(E)IMO

Argon · Answer

There are a few issues with E in addition to the use of plural 'them' . IMO, the pronoun 'who' does not go well with an animal. It should have been 'that' instead of 'who'. Secondly, the use of 'had travelled' is inappropriate as clarification for time sense is not required there. Whereas, the use of 'had predicted' is justified because it happened before 'struggled'.

Aristocrat · Answer

The deer, despite having traveled hundreds of miles from their home to reach the Canadian wilderness and therefore being free to roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers, struggled to acclimate to the habitat that wildlife biologists had predicted would enable it to thrive.

(A) despite having traveled hundreds of miles from their home to reach the Canadian wilderness and therefore being free to roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers  <== 'their' plural pronoun refer to deer' 
 being as usual incorrect in gmat.

(B) despite having traveled hundreds of miles from home to the Canadian wilderness where they would now be free to roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers  <== 'they plural refer to deer'

(C) despite having traveled hundreds of miles from home to reach the Canadian wilderness that offered freedom to roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers  <== correct answer

(D) even after traveling hundreds of miles from their home to reach the Canadian wilderness where they could freely roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers  <== their and they plural refers to dee r

(E) who had traveled hundreds of miles from home to the Canadian wilderness that would offer them freedom to roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made danger  <== them incorrect refer to singular deer

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souvik101990 · Answer

The deer,  despite having traveled hundreds of miles from their home to reach the Canadian wilderness and therefore being free to roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers , struggled to acclimate to the habitat that wildlife biologists had predicted would enable it to thrive.

A. despite having traveled hundreds of miles from their home to reach the Canadian wilderness and therefore being free to roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers
B. despite having traveled hundreds of miles from home to the Canadian wilderness where they would now be free to roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers 
C. despite having traveled hundreds of miles from home to reach the Canadian wilderness that offered freedom to roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers 
D. even after traveling hundreds of miles from their home to reach the Canadian wilderness where they could freely roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers
E. who had traveled hundreds of miles from home to the Canadian wilderness that would offer them freedom to roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers

souvik101990 · Answer

Official Solution:

The deer,  despite having traveled hundreds of miles from their home to reach the Canadian wilderness and therefore being free to roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers , struggled to acclimate to the habitat that wildlife biologists had predicted would enable it to thrive.

A. despite having traveled hundreds of miles from their home to reach the Canadian wilderness and therefore being free to roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers
B. despite having traveled hundreds of miles from home to the Canadian wilderness where they would now be free to roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers 
C. despite having traveled hundreds of miles from home to reach the Canadian wilderness that offered freedom to roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers 
D. even after traveling hundreds of miles from their home to reach the Canadian wilderness where they could freely roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers
E. who had traveled hundreds of miles from home to the Canadian wilderness that would offer them freedom to roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers

This sentence is entirely about 'The Whole Sentence Matters". Without recognizing the pronoun "it" toward the end of the sentence, far from the underline, you'd struggle to gain a foothold here. "Deer" is both singular and plural, so if you didn't notice that defining singular pronoun It" you wouldn't be turned off by the presence of "they", "their, and "them" in choices A, B, D, and E. But the word "it" makes "deer° singular, and only choice C (which avoids the use of a second pronoun) can then be correct.

Answer: C

viciss · Answer

Hi though its pretty obvious in terms of pronoun ref and SV agreement what is the correct ans yet I have a doubt in option C. I am not very comfortable with the idiom..  traveled from home to reach the Canadian wilderness ; shouldnt the correct form be  from X to Y  where X,Y both ref to places. for eg here "traveled from home to Canadian wilderness, instead of verb reach?

Can someone allay my doubts pls

Thanks

Nevernevergiveup · Answer

Replacing the pronoun  it  in the given sentence with plural pronoun  them , the sentence is as follows
can some one explain which of the options are correct or wrong based on following aspects

1. from  home/their home  to  CW/reach CW 
2.  despite having traveled  vs  even after traveling  
3.   therefore being free  vs 
 where they would now be free  vs 
 that offered freedom to roam  vs 
 where they could freely roam  vs 
 that would offer them freedom

The deer,  despite having traveled hundreds of miles from their home to reach the Canadian wilderness and therefore being free to roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers , struggled to acclimate to the habitat that wildlife biologists had predicted would enable them to thrive.

(A) despite having traveled hundreds of miles from their home to reach the Canadian wilderness and therefore being free to roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers

(B) despite having traveled hundreds of miles from home to the Canadian wilderness where they would now be free to roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers

(C) despite having traveled hundreds of miles from home to reach the Canadian wilderness that offered freedom to roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers

(D) even after traveling hundreds of miles from their home to reach the Canadian wilderness where they could freely roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers

(E) who had traveled hundreds of miles from home to the Canadian wilderness that would offer them freedom to roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers

korhiyatryinghard · Answer

Hi Bunuel,

Thanks for the explanation.

While the explanation makes sense, in the correct answer choice "traveled hundreds of miles from  home  to  reach the Canadian wilderness " should be parallel? 
Such a version would look like this "traveled hundreds of miles from  home  to  the Canadian wilderness  . Isn't this version more succinct/less redundant than the previous version

Regards,

RatneshS · Answer

The deer,  who  had traveled  hundreds of miles from home to the Canadian wilderness that would offer them freedom to roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers ,  struggled  to acclimate to the habitat that wildlife biologists had predicted would enable it to thrive.

should be E
why?
deer had travelled and then struggled

having travelled and then struggled is not correct

Infact E is wrong because of the usage them but C cant be right

daagh · Answer

In E: How can the relative pronoun ‘who’ be attributed to the deer? It is fatal. 
In this sentence, having traveled is a modifier and ‘struggled’ is the main verb; if we combine ‘had traveled and struggled’ as part of the modifier, then the sentence will be a fragment without a verb. 
In addition, if we say, had traveled, had struggled and had predicted—all in past perfect tenses, then there will be no simple past tense to distinguish the timeline. This will be structurally wrong. Therefore C.

EducationAisle · Answer

Good point korhiyatryinghard! Wonder what the source is.

MaryLily · Answer

I am confused by the explanation. There are actually two pronouns in the sentence, "their" and "it". They are not consistent with each other. Can this be a mistake itself? Or if not, how can I know which pronoun to be kept consistent with.

The deer, despite having traveled hundreds of miles from   their   home to reach the Canadian wilderness and therefore being free to roam without fear of highway traffic or other man-made dangers, struggled to acclimate to the habitat that wildlife biologists had predicted would enable   it   to thrive.

ankursethi297 · Answer

I have a doubt.

is "Despite + verb-ing" acceptable in GMAT?

ankursethi297 · Answer

I have a doubt.

is "Despite + verb-ing" acceptable in GMAT?

mohshu · Answer

C for me,,,

deer is singular and the pronoun for deer should be singular,,
hence C

SidJainGMAT · Answer

It is clear cut C.. I was stuck in C & E but in E the contrast shown in original sentence is lost.. Hence C

navderm · Answer

This might be a stretch, I'm asking for a reply after 7 years after you posted it, but why does who not refer to Deer ?

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