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.
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 0111:00 AM PDT
-12:00 PM PDT
Free- full-length test + 15 concept videos + 150+ short videos + study plan!
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.
01 Dec 2021, 02:30
Kudos
Bookmarks
D
Be sure to select an answer first to save it in the Error Log before revealing the correct answer (OA)!
Difficulty:
55%
(hard)
Question Stats:
53% (01:20) correct
47%
(01:31)
wrong
based on 338
sessions
History
Date
Time
Result
Not Attempted Yet
As John was so hysterical that he could not articulate well and Jane was unable to understand the cause for his hysteria over the phone, so she dropped everything at work and drove home.
A. As John was so hysterical that he could not articulate well and Jane
B. Because John was so hysterical that he could not articulate well and Jane
C. John was hysterical to such a large degree that he could not articulate well and Jane
D. As John was so hysterical that he could not articulate well, Jane
E. John was so hysterical that he could not articulate well and Jane, who
A. As John was so hysterical that he could not articulate well and Jane
B. Because John was so hysterical that he could not articulate well and Jane
C. John was hysterical to such a large degree that he could not articulate well and Jane
D. As John was so hysterical that he could not articulate well, Jane
E. John was so hysterical that he could not articulate well and Jane, who
01 Dec 2021, 03:39
Kudos
Bookmarks
My answer is (D). It took me 01:07.
"So" is one of the seven ("FANBOYS") coordinating conjunctions. The proper construction of a coordinating sentence is: IC1 + Comma + FANBOYS + IC2. (IC stands for independent clause).
(A) Incorrect because "As ..." is a subordinate / dependent clause. We expect an IC.
(B) Incorrect. "Because ..." is a subordinate / dependent clause. We expect an IC.
A different view to eliminate (B) is that "because" and "so" are redundant.
(C) There are two issues.
1. "and" is one of the seven ("FANBOYS") coordinating conjunctions. The proper construction of a coordinating sentence is: IC1 + Comma + FANBOYS + IC2. The comma is missing before "and Jane".
2. ”to such a large degree that“ is frowned upon in GMAT. Use "so/such ... that..." instead.
(D) "As ..." is a subordinate / dependent clause. It is fine in this version because it is followed by an IC ("Jane was unable to understand the cause for his hysteria over the phone").
(E) Not a sentence. If we cross out the nonrestrictive relative clause ("who was unable to understand the cause for his hysteria over the phone"), it reads:
As John was so hysterical that he could not articulate well and Jane, so she dropped everything at work and drove home.
"So" is one of the seven ("FANBOYS") coordinating conjunctions. The proper construction of a coordinating sentence is: IC1 + Comma + FANBOYS + IC2. (IC stands for independent clause).
(A) Incorrect because "As ..." is a subordinate / dependent clause. We expect an IC.
(B) Incorrect. "Because ..." is a subordinate / dependent clause. We expect an IC.
A different view to eliminate (B) is that "because" and "so" are redundant.
(C) There are two issues.
1. "and" is one of the seven ("FANBOYS") coordinating conjunctions. The proper construction of a coordinating sentence is: IC1 + Comma + FANBOYS + IC2. The comma is missing before "and Jane".
2. ”to such a large degree that“ is frowned upon in GMAT. Use "so/such ... that..." instead.
(D) "As ..." is a subordinate / dependent clause. It is fine in this version because it is followed by an IC ("Jane was unable to understand the cause for his hysteria over the phone").
(E) Not a sentence. If we cross out the nonrestrictive relative clause ("who was unable to understand the cause for his hysteria over the phone"), it reads:
As John was so hysterical that he could not articulate well and Jane, so she dropped everything at work and drove home.
General Discussion
01 Dec 2021, 03:06
Kudos
Bookmarks
The second part of the sentence has: "so she dropped everything at work and drove home." which means, the first part cannot start with "As... ". Therefore, Options A, B, D are eliminated. Regarding Option E: "E. John was so hysterical that he could not articulate well and Jane, who was unable to understand the cause for his hysteria over the phone, so she dropped everything at work and drove home" is also not fitting well with the second part that has "so she dropped everything". Therefore, Option C is correct.
