Events & Promotions
|
|
GMAT Club Daily Prep
Thank you for using the timer - this advanced tool can estimate your performance and suggest more practice questions. We have subscribed you to Daily Prep Questions via email.
Customized
for You
Track
Your Progress
Practice
Pays
Not interested in getting valuable practice questions and articles delivered to your email? No problem, unsubscribe here.
May 0111:00 AM PDT
-12:00 PM PDT
Free- full-length test + 15 concept videos + 150+ short videos + study plan!
Apr 3001:30 AM EDT
-02:30 AM EDT
At one point, she believed GMAT wasn’t for her. After scoring 595, self-doubt crept in and she questioned her potential. But instead of quitting, she made the right strategic changes. The result? A remarkable comeback to 695. Check out how Saakshi did it.
May 0306:30 AM PDT
-08:30 AM PDT
Verbal trouble on GMAT? Fix it NOW! Join Sunita Singhvi for a focused webinar on actionable strategies to boost your Verbal score and take your performance to the next level.
27 Jun 2014, 22:14
Kudos
Bookmarks
E
Be sure to select an answer first to save it in the Error Log before revealing the correct answer (OA)!
Difficulty:
95%
(hard)
Question Stats:
23% (01:34) correct
78%
(01:32)
wrong
based on 360
sessions
History
Date
Time
Result
Not Attempted Yet
Recounting a painful childhood experience, the woman remembered that her father was very angry when she failed the fifth grade because she could see him shaking with anger
A. Recounting a painful childhood experience, the woman remembered that her father was very angry when she failed the fifth grade because she could see him shaking with anger
B. Recounting a painful childhood experience, the woman recounted that her father was shaking with anger when she failed the fifth grade.
C. Painfully, the woman remembered when she failed the fifth grade and when her father was shaking with anger.
D. The failure of the fifth grade and her father’s anger were painful for the woman recounting the experience.
E. The woman described her father’s shaking with anger when he learned that she had failed the fifth grade.
A. Recounting a painful childhood experience, the woman remembered that her father was very angry when she failed the fifth grade because she could see him shaking with anger
B. Recounting a painful childhood experience, the woman recounted that her father was shaking with anger when she failed the fifth grade.
C. Painfully, the woman remembered when she failed the fifth grade and when her father was shaking with anger.
D. The failure of the fifth grade and her father’s anger were painful for the woman recounting the experience.
E. The woman described her father’s shaking with anger when he learned that she had failed the fifth grade.
28 Jun 2014, 00:46
Kudos
Bookmarks
Q- Recounting a painful childhood experience, the woman remembered that her father was very angry when she failed the fifth grade because she could see him shaking with anger
A. Recounting a painful childhood experience, the woman remembered that her father was very angry when she failed the fifth grade because she could see him shaking with anger this answer choice has misplaced modifier.. it seems that "she could see him shaking with anger" is the reason for her failure in fifth grade
B. Recounting a painful childhood experience, the woman recounted that her father was shaking with anger when she failed the fifth grade.
this option has redundancy.
I think the use of "when" is not correct also, because it implies that exactly at the time "she failed the fifth grade" her father was shaking.
C. Painfully, the woman remembered when she failed the fifth grade and when her father was shaking with anger.
painfully is adverb, it modifies how the act of remembering happened. while in the original sentence painful modifies the childhood experience.
D. The failure of the fifth grade and her father’s anger were painful for the woman recounting the experience.
I mistakenly chose this option because I was not careful about meaning principal!!! this option implies that X and Y were painful for woman. it completely distorts the original meaning.
E. The woman described her father’s shaking with anger when he learned that she had failed the fifth grade.
this option exactly indicates that the father's shaking was the result of knowing that her daughter had failed the fifth grade.
meaning is the sole tool we can rely on in hard questions!
A. Recounting a painful childhood experience, the woman remembered that her father was very angry when she failed the fifth grade because she could see him shaking with anger this answer choice has misplaced modifier.. it seems that "she could see him shaking with anger" is the reason for her failure in fifth grade
B. Recounting a painful childhood experience, the woman recounted that her father was shaking with anger when she failed the fifth grade.
this option has redundancy.
I think the use of "when" is not correct also, because it implies that exactly at the time "she failed the fifth grade" her father was shaking.
C. Painfully, the woman remembered when she failed the fifth grade and when her father was shaking with anger.
painfully is adverb, it modifies how the act of remembering happened. while in the original sentence painful modifies the childhood experience.
D. The failure of the fifth grade and her father’s anger were painful for the woman recounting the experience.
I mistakenly chose this option because I was not careful about meaning principal!!! this option implies that X and Y were painful for woman. it completely distorts the original meaning.
E. The woman described her father’s shaking with anger when he learned that she had failed the fifth grade.
this option exactly indicates that the father's shaking was the result of knowing that her daughter had failed the fifth grade.
meaning is the sole tool we can rely on in hard questions!
29 Jun 2014, 02:34
Kudos
Bookmarks
Thumb rule : Whenever you read a sentence ensure whether it is written in direct speech or indirect speech. This question is written in indirect speech, therefore we will have to take care of tenses according to rules which work for indirect speech.
In indirect speech incidents of past described by third person takes past perfect verb.
To understand this concept or refer Magoosh's article: https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/sequence-o ... orrection/
Q- Recounting a painful childhood experience, the woman remembered that her father was very angry when she failed the fifth grade because she could see him shaking with anger
A. Recounting a painful childhood experience, the woman remembered that her father was very angry when she failed the fifth grade because she could see him shaking with anger
Above sentence is wrong because third person events are described in simple past tense.
B. Recounting a painful childhood experience, the woman recounted that her father was shaking with anger when she failed the fifth grade.
Same as A.
C. Painfully, the woman remembered when she failed the fifth grade and when her father was shaking with anger.
These two events are interrelated but in C these events are expressed as independent events separated by conjunction. It also violates the indirect speech tense usage.
D. The failure of the fifth grade and her father’s anger were painful for the woman recounting the experience.
Again as in C, in D events are expressed as they are not interrelated.
E. The woman described her father’s shaking with anger when he learned that she had failed the fifth grade.
I am not very much satisfied with "he learned" it should be "when he had learned", but this choice is better than all other choices.
As per my understanding:
present tense - direct speech : my father knows that I failed in test.
Above statement in indirect speech. He said that his father knew that he had failed in test.
past tense - direct speech : My father knew that I had failed the test.
indirect speech : He said that his father had known that he had failed the test. (This is what I am expecting in option E)
In indirect speech incidents of past described by third person takes past perfect verb.
To understand this concept or refer Magoosh's article: https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/sequence-o ... orrection/
Q- Recounting a painful childhood experience, the woman remembered that her father was very angry when she failed the fifth grade because she could see him shaking with anger
A. Recounting a painful childhood experience, the woman remembered that her father was very angry when she failed the fifth grade because she could see him shaking with anger
Above sentence is wrong because third person events are described in simple past tense.
B. Recounting a painful childhood experience, the woman recounted that her father was shaking with anger when she failed the fifth grade.
Same as A.
C. Painfully, the woman remembered when she failed the fifth grade and when her father was shaking with anger.
These two events are interrelated but in C these events are expressed as independent events separated by conjunction. It also violates the indirect speech tense usage.
D. The failure of the fifth grade and her father’s anger were painful for the woman recounting the experience.
Again as in C, in D events are expressed as they are not interrelated.
E. The woman described her father’s shaking with anger when he learned that she had failed the fifth grade.
I am not very much satisfied with "he learned" it should be "when he had learned", but this choice is better than all other choices.
As per my understanding:
present tense - direct speech : my father knows that I failed in test.
Above statement in indirect speech. He said that his father knew that he had failed in test.
past tense - direct speech : My father knew that I had failed the test.
indirect speech : He said that his father had known that he had failed the test. (This is what I am expecting in option E)
