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Why cheddar cheese should inhibit tooth decay is unclear, but Dr. Bowen, who reports this effect in her study, speculates that the food might interfere with the acid that decays teeth or with the bacterium that produces the acid.
A. Why cheddar cheese should inhibit tooth decay is unclear
B. Cheddar cheese and how it inhibits tooth decay is not clear
C. How cheddar cheese should inhibit tooth decay is not clear
D. That cheddar cheese inhibits tooth decay and how is unclear
E. Why there is an inhibition of tooth decay by cheddar cheese is unclear
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A. Why cheddar cheese should inhibit tooth decay is unclear
B. Cheddar cheese and how it inhibits tooth decay is not clear
C. How cheddar cheese should inhibit tooth decay is not clear
D. That cheddar cheese inhibits tooth decay and how is unclear
E. Why there is an inhibition of tooth decay by cheddar cheese is unclear
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10 Jun 2020, 05:21
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If this is how GMAT works, this is how it works. However, from a native speaking and meaning perspective, there's clearly a big flaw in the official correct choice.
After elimination, it comes down to choice A and C. Everything else has meaning or conciseness issues.
Core sentence of the two remaining choices are:
A: "Why cheese inhibit decay is unclear, but Dr. Bowen speculates that..."
C: "How cheese inhibit decay is not clear, but Dr. Bowen speculates that..."
From a native speaker's point of view, we to use "how" to describe the way something is done; "why" is reserved for intent reasoning.
For example, compare the following sentences:
"How they solve the puzzle" vs "Why they solve the puzzle"
"How" implies asking the process by which they solve the puzzle. For example, you could answer: "They solve by lining up the edges first, then filling in the center"
"Why" implies asking the intent of their action. You could answer: "They solve the puzzle because they are bored during coronavirus lockdown."
In this question's case, the remaining sentence describes not the intent of cheese inhibiting decay, but the process by which cheese inhibits decay. The cheese does not have intent.
After elimination, it comes down to choice A and C. Everything else has meaning or conciseness issues.
Core sentence of the two remaining choices are:
A: "Why cheese inhibit decay is unclear, but Dr. Bowen speculates that..."
C: "How cheese inhibit decay is not clear, but Dr. Bowen speculates that..."
From a native speaker's point of view, we to use "how" to describe the way something is done; "why" is reserved for intent reasoning.
For example, compare the following sentences:
"How they solve the puzzle" vs "Why they solve the puzzle"
"How" implies asking the process by which they solve the puzzle. For example, you could answer: "They solve by lining up the edges first, then filling in the center"
"Why" implies asking the intent of their action. You could answer: "They solve the puzzle because they are bored during coronavirus lockdown."
In this question's case, the remaining sentence describes not the intent of cheese inhibiting decay, but the process by which cheese inhibits decay. The cheese does not have intent.
17 Aug 2020, 05:48
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I hope you agree that there is a lot of speculation in whole case.
Why A should work to cure disease B is unclear - Does A work? Unclear
How A should work to cure disease B - there is an implied understanding that A does work. How it works is unknown.
But here the doc is reporting this effect in her study and speculating on why it happens. Nothing is established.
Hence (A) is correct.
Also, (D) has two subjects joined by 'and' - "That cheddar cheese inhibits tooth decay" and "how"
So we should use "are unclear".
