|
Author |
Message |
|
TAGS:
|
|
|
Founder
Joined: 04 Dec 2002
Posts: 15143
Location: United States (WA)
|
Veritas Prep 10 Year Anniversary Promo Question #6 [#permalink]
Show Tags
 19 Sep 2012, 10:00
1
This post received
KUDOS
Expert's post
4
This post was
BOOKMARKED
Veritas 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: veritas-prep-10-year-anniversary-giveaway-138806.htmlTo 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!
(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[Reveal] Spoiler: Official Answer & Explanation 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. _________________
Founder of GMAT Club
US News Rankings progression - last 10 years in a snapshot - New!
Just starting out with GMAT? Start here...
Need GMAT Book Recommendations? Best GMAT Books
Co-author of the GMAT Club tests
Last edited by bb on 20 Sep 2012, 08:32, edited 2 times in total.
posted the explanation
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Director
Status: Final Countdown
Joined: 17 Mar 2010
Posts: 537
Location: India
GPA: 3.82
WE: Account Management (Retail Banking)
|
Re: Veritas Prep 10 Year Anniversary Promo Question #6 [#permalink]
Show Tags
19 Sep 2012, 20:04
(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
_________________
" Make more efforts "
Press Kudos if you liked my post
|
|
|
|
|
|
Intern
Joined: 24 May 2012
Posts: 13
Location: India
WE: Engineering (Energy and Utilities)
|
Re: Veritas Prep 10 Year Anniversary Promo Question #6 [#permalink]
Show Tags
19 Sep 2012, 20:56
thevenus wrote: (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 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'.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Manager
Joined: 29 Jul 2012
Posts: 185
GMAT Date: 11-18-2012
|
Re: Veritas Prep 10 Year Anniversary Promo Question #6 [#permalink]
Show Tags
19 Sep 2012, 21:00
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 deer (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
_________________
Thriving for CHANGE
|
|
|
|
|
|
Director
Status: Done with formalities.. and back..
Joined: 15 Sep 2012
Posts: 641
Location: India
Concentration: Strategy, General Management
Schools: Olin - Wash U - Class of 2015
WE: Information Technology (Computer Software)
|
Re: Veritas Prep 10 Year Anniversary Promo Question #6 [#permalink]
Show Tags
20 Sep 2012, 08:59
Vips0000 wrote:
!
|
Congratulations - You are the winner
Actually you have won both Quant and Verbal challenge (very impressive!)
You will be awarded the course/prize for the Quant.
Per rules only one prize per person. |
Ans is C. The Deer is singular, so A,B,D and E are incorrect. Thank you.. thank you 
_________________
Lets Kudos!!! 
Black Friday Debrief
|
|
|
|
|
|
Founder
Joined: 04 Dec 2002
Posts: 15143
Location: United States (WA)
|
Re: Veritas Prep 10 Year Anniversary Promo Question #6 [#permalink]
Show Tags
20 Sep 2012, 09:36
Congratulations again. Thank you for your participation and an amazing performance! You are officially the winner but since you cannot use 2 courses, we will be giving away 2 courses on Friday instead of 1! So, everybody should try to participate in that one. It will be a Critical Reasoning Question.
_________________
Founder of GMAT Club
US News Rankings progression - last 10 years in a snapshot - New!
Just starting out with GMAT? Start here...
Need GMAT Book Recommendations? Best GMAT Books
Co-author of the GMAT Club tests
|
|
|
|
|
|
GMAT Club Legend
Joined: 01 Oct 2013
Posts: 10171
|
Re: Veritas Prep 10 Year Anniversary Promo Question #6 [#permalink]
Show Tags
18 Feb 2014, 08:51
Hello from the GMAT Club VerbalBot!
Thanks to another GMAT Club member, I have just discovered this valuable topic, yet it had no discussion for over a year. I am now bumping it up - doing my job. I think you may find it valuable (esp those replies with Kudos).
Want to see all other topics I dig out? Follow me (click follow button on profile). You will receive a summary of all topics I bump in your profile area as well as via email.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Current Student
Joined: 27 Jul 2014
Posts: 29
|
Veritas Prep 10 Year Anniversary Promo Question #6 [#permalink]
Show Tags
25 May 2015, 08:11
bb wrote: 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
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
|
|
|
|
|
|
VP
Joined: 18 Sep 2014
Posts: 1205
Location: India
|
Veritas Prep 10 Year Anniversary Promo Question #6 [#permalink]
Show Tags
09 Nov 2015, 04:11
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
_________________
The only time you can lose is when you give up. Try hard and you will suceed.
Thanks = Kudos. Kudos are appreciated
http://gmatclub.com/forum/rules-for-posting-in-verbal-gmat-forum-134642.html
When you post a question Pls. Provide its source & TAG your questions
Avoid posting from unreliable sources.
My posts
http://gmatclub.com/forum/beauty-of-coordinate-geometry-213760.html#p1649924
http://gmatclub.com/forum/calling-all-march-april-gmat-takers-who-want-to-cross-213154.html
http://gmatclub.com/forum/possessive-pronouns-200496.html
http://gmatclub.com/forum/double-negatives-206717.html
http://gmatclub.com/forum/the-greatest-integer-function-223595.html#p1721773
https://gmatclub.com/forum/improve-reading-habit-233410.html#p1802265
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Veritas Prep 10 Year Anniversary Promo Question #6
[#permalink]
09 Nov 2015, 04:11
|
|
|
|
|
Go to page
Previous
1 2
[ 28 posts ]
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Moderators:
msk0657, mikemcgarry, Abhishek009, GMATNinjaTwo, Gnpth, Nevernevergiveup, sallysea, GMATNinja, carcass, hazelnut, souvik101990, yezz, nguyendinhtuong, chetan2u, Narenn
|
17
