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08 May 2022, 01:30
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Both moderate exercise and adequate sleep are essential for happiness: a study indicated that people who had exercised thrice a week and who had slept eight hours a day feel happy about their lives.
A. who had exercised thrice a week and who had slept eight hours a day feel
B. that had exercised thrice a week while sleeping eight hours a day feel
C. who exercised thrice a week and those who slept eight hours a day felt
D. who exercised thrice a week while sleeping eight hours a day feel
E. that exercise thrice a week and sleep eight hours a day feel
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A. who had exercised thrice a week and who had slept eight hours a day feel
B. that had exercised thrice a week while sleeping eight hours a day feel
C. who exercised thrice a week and those who slept eight hours a day felt
D. who exercised thrice a week while sleeping eight hours a day feel
E. that exercise thrice a week and sleep eight hours a day feel
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A. who had exercised thrice a week and who had slept eight hours a day feel
"feel" looked tempting because when speaking of historical events, laws or studies that still influences our present day, one may use present tense but here looking at the tenses gives you an illogical timeline; so first people exercised and slept (these acts are complete now), than study indicated that the same very people generally feels happy
B. that had exercised thrice a week while sleeping eight hours a day feel
you can't use "that" with people you have to use "who". Also the meaning is off. exercised while sleeping? no, what the author wants to say is that exercised + slept well
C. who exercised thrice a week and those who slept eight hours a day felt
Correct
D. who exercised thrice a week while sleeping eight hours a day feel
the meaning is off. exercised while sleeping? no, what the author wants to say is that exercised + slept well
E. that exercise thrice a week and sleep eight hours a day feel
you can't use "that" with people you have to use "who"
"feel" looked tempting because when speaking of historical events, laws or studies that still influences our present day, one may use present tense but here looking at the tenses gives you an illogical timeline; so first people exercised and slept (these acts are complete now), than study indicated that the same very people generally feels happy
B. that had exercised thrice a week while sleeping eight hours a day feel
you can't use "that" with people you have to use "who". Also the meaning is off. exercised while sleeping? no, what the author wants to say is that exercised + slept well
C. who exercised thrice a week and those who slept eight hours a day felt
Correct
D. who exercised thrice a week while sleeping eight hours a day feel
the meaning is off. exercised while sleeping? no, what the author wants to say is that exercised + slept well
E. that exercise thrice a week and sleep eight hours a day feel
you can't use "that" with people you have to use "who"
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GMAT Club Tests' Official Explanation
There are different grammatically correct tense combinations possible for the verbs in the part after “indicated that” (i.e. within the action / statement in simple past):
- 1. Universal truth: to exercise, to sleep and to feel, all in simple present
2. A general truth in the past: to exercise, to sleep and to feel, all in simple past
3. A specific observation in the past: to exercise and to sleep in the past perfect and to feel in the simple past (to depict that exercising and sleeping occurred before feeling).
A. The combination of past perfect (“had exercised” and “had slept”) with simple present (“feel”) is wrong.
B. The combination of past perfect (“had exercised”) with simple present (“feel”) is wrong. (Note: The present participle takes up the tense of the verb it modifies and thus the action sleeping can also be considered to be the same tense as exercising.)
C. The tense combination is alright. All the verbs “exercise”, “sleep” and “feel” are in the simple past to indicate a general truth in the past. However in this option the problem is with the pronoun “those” - this pronoun introduces a new copy of the noun “people” distorting the meaning. This option means that there are two sets of people, one that exercises and the other that sleeps. Both of these sets of people feel happy - this meaning is not intended because the first part of the sentence before the colon (“Both moderate exercise and adequate sleep are essential for happiness”) indicates that the same set of people must do both the actions, exercising and sleeping, to feel happy.
D. The combination of simple past (“exercised”) with simple present (“feel”) is wrong.
E. CORRECT. A Universal truth is depicted using simple present for all the three verbs exercising, sleeping and feeling, even though they come within an action or a statement (indicated) in the simple past.
