The guests of the king had had plenty of time to glut themselves at th

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The guests of the king had had plenty of time to glut themselves at the feast, and thus they were too stupefied, drunk, and startled to react effectively when rebels broke into the castle.

(A) guests of the king had had plenty of time to glut themselves at the feast, and thus they were too stupefied, drunk, and Keeps

(B) guests of the king had plenty of time to glut themselves at the feast, but they were too stupefied, drunk, and were too Incorrect

parallelism error- ........too stupefied, drunk, and were too .....

(C) king’s guests had plenty of time to glut themselves at the feast, and thus they were too stupefied, too drunk, and were too Incorrect

parallelism error- ........too stupefied, too drunk, and were too.....

(D) king’s guests had had plenty of time to glut themselves at the feast, so they were too stupefied, too drunk, and were too Incorrect

parallelism error- .....too stupefied, too drunk, and were too.....

(E) king’s guests had had plenty of time to glut themselves at the feast, but they were too stupefied, drunk, and Keeps

Between A & E

A - they were not done anything , as a result they were too stupefied....

E is better than A

Answer E

ananya3 · Answer

IMO A

The guests of the king had had plenty of time to glut themselves at the feast, and thus they were too stupefied, drunk, and startled to react effectively when rebels broke into the castle.

(A) guests of the king had had plenty of time to glut themselves at the feast, and thus they were too stupefied, drunk, and -   Correct

(B) guests of the king had plenty of time to glut themselves at the feast, but they were too stupefied, drunk, and were too -  Incorrect 
the guests were too full to react. there is no contradiction and therefore the statement needs an and instead of but

(C) king’s guests had plenty of time to glut themselves at the feast, and thus they were too stupefied, too drunk, and were too -  Incorrect 
parallelism error - too stupefied, too drunk and  were  too startled

(D) king’s guests had had plenty of time to glut themselves at the feast, so they were too stupefied, too drunk, and were too -  Incorrect 
1.parallelism error - too stupefied, too drunk and  were  too startled

(E) king’s guests had had plenty of time to glut themselves at the feast, but they were too stupefied, drunk, and -  Incorrect 
the guests were too full to react. there is no contradiction and therefore the statement needs an and instead of but

winterschool · Answer

The guests of the king had had plenty of time to glut themselves at the feast, and thus they were too stupefied, drunk, and startled to react effectively when rebels broke into the castle.

(A) guests of the king had had plenty of time to glut themselves at the feast,  and thus  they were too stupefied, drunk, and  Keeps

(B) guests of the king had plenty of time to glut themselves at the feast, but they were  too stupefied, drunk, and were too   Incorrect

parallelism error- ........too stupefied, drunk, and were too .....

(C) king’s guests had plenty of time to glut themselves at the feast, and thus they were  too stupefied, too drunk, and were too   Incorrect

parallelism error- ........too stupefied, too drunk, and were too.....

(D) king’s guests had had plenty of time to glut themselves at the feast, so they were  too stupefied, too drunk, and were too   Incorrect

parallelism error- .....too stupefied, too drunk, and were too.....

(E)  king’s guests had had plenty of time to glut themselves at the feast, but they were too stupefied, drunk, and   Keeps

Between A & E

A - they were not done anything , as a result they were too stupefied....

E is better than A

Answer E

jingzhao8902 · Answer

he guests of the king had had plenty of time to glut themselves at the feast, and thus they were too stupefied, drunk, and startled to react effectively when rebels broke into the castle.

(A) guests of the king had had plenty of time to glut themselves at the feast, and thus they were too stupefied, drunk, and - and thus feels a bit fun, but the logically relationship p is right.

(B) guests of the king had plenty of time to glut themselves at the feast, but they were too stupefied, drunk, and were too

had had is correct, as guests had drinks before the rebels 
too stupefied, drunk, and were too ..... not parallel

(C) king’s guests had plenty of time to glut themselves at the feast, and thus they were too stupefied, too drunk, and were too

should be had had
too stupefied, too drunk, and were too.....not parallel

(D) king’s guests had had plenty of time to glut themselves at the feast, so they were too stupefied, too drunk, and were too

were too, too, and were too .. not parallel

(E) king’s guests had had plenty of time to glut themselves at the feast, but they were too stupefied, drunk, and

This also seems to be right, the usage of but may not be correct.

So I think it is A

Bunuel · Answer

OFFICIAL EXPLANATION:

(A): Issues tested: Parallelism, Meaning

Glance at the beginning of the underline and the beginning of each answer. Should it be  guests of the king  or  king’s guests ?

While  guests of the king  is less concise, that is not a reason to eliminate an answer on the GMAT. In fact, either form is just fine. What next? Should the verb be  had had  or  had ? The sentence discusses multiple events that took place at different times in the past, so it is appropriate to use the past perfect  had had  to refer to the longest-ago event. But it is not necessarily required to use the past perfect even when you can, as long as other context in the sentence properly conveys the sequence of events.

Glance at the end of the answers; the original sentence ends in  and  but some of the other answers add additional words after the  and . Check the parallelism of each choice:

(A) stupefied, drunk, and startled

(B) too stupefied, drunk, and were too startled

(C) too stupefied, too drunk, and were too startled

(D) too stupefied, too drunk, and were too startled

(E) stupefied, drunk, and startled

The first two items in the list are the adjectives  stupefied  and  drunk  but answers (B), (C), and (D) include a verb ( were ) in the third item, so eliminate these answers for faulty parallelism.

Answers (A) and (E) each contain a list of three parallel adjectives. What next?

The original sentence connects the two clauses with  and , while choice (E) changes the conjunction to  but . These two words have opposite meanings, so check the meaning of the sentence. Do the two clauses contrast each other? If so, then the sentence should use  but  to indicate the proper meaning. In this case, the fact that the guests glutted themselves at the feast  supports  the idea that they were stupefied and drunk:  And  is the correct conjunction here. Eliminate choice (E) for faulty meaning.

Did the pronoun  they  sound ambiguous to you? When you spot a pronoun that might be ambiguous, check the answers: In this case, all five use the pronoun  they , so it must be correct. This red herring, along with the  guests of the king , was designed to get you to eliminate, or at least to doubt, the correct answer.

nayas96 · Answer

Doesn't the first sentence actually have a cause and effect relationship and therefore the "had had" is incorrect to use. Since ,according to the meaning, the guests of the king had had plenty of time to glut themselves at the feast, therefore they were too stupefied, drunk, and startled to react effectively when rebels broke into the castle.

Kindly please clarify accordingly

EducationAisle · Answer

Hi  nayas96 , "had had" (past perfect) is a tense aspect. For "cause and effect relationship", the first sentence uses "thus".

p.s. Our book    EducationAisle Sentence Correction Nirvana    discusses  the usage of "had had" , its application and examples in significant detail. If you or someone is interested, PM me your email-id; I can mail the corresponding section.

ExpertsGlobal5 · Answer

Hello  nayas96 ,

We hope this finds you well.

Having gone through the question and your query, we believe we can resolve your doubt.

In this sentence, the cause-effect relationship between the guests glutting themselves and them being too stupefied, drunk, and startled to react to the rebels is denoted through the use of the word "thus". The verb phrase "had had" is a past perfect tense construction - the first "had" is a helping verb, and the second is a past participle - that conveys that the guests had plenty of time to glut themselves happened further in the past than them being "too stupefied, drunk, and startled" to react to the rebels.

We hope this helps.
All the best!
Experts' Global Team

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