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19-09-2005, 01:00 PM

Answer to Question 16

Choice E, the best answer, correctly uses a parallel construction to draw a logical comparison: Unlike a typical automobile loan,... a lease-loan....
Choice A illogically compares an automobile loan, an inanimate thing, with a lease-loan buyer, a person.
In choice C, buyers makes the comparison inconsistent in number as well as
illogical.
Choices B and D are syntactically and logically flawed because each attempts to compare the noun loan and a prepositional phrase: with lease-loan buying in B and/or the lease-loan buyer in D. Choices B and D are also imprecise and awkward. Finally, choice E is the only option that supplies an active verb form, does not require, to parallel requires.


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19-09-2005, 01:03 PM

HHuh...had a hectic time posting questions every half hour...
not so easy as I thought initially....it's eating into my other activites ...

I would try a different pattern tomorrow...will post a Question every hour.....that should leave me with some breathing space....


hope to see more people chippin in....see ya tomorrow...

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19-09-2005, 01:19 PM

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HHuh...had a hectic time posting questions every half hour...
not so easy as I thought initially....it's eating into my other activites ...

I would try a different pattern tomorrow...will post a Question every hour.....that should leave me with some breathing space....


hope to see more people chippin in....see ya tomorrow...

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good show man....keep continuing....it helps guyz like me a lot..


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19-09-2005, 04:14 PM

I am sorry that i did not give the solution along with the answer.
And one advice to Koseram. Buddy, plz wait for sometime after posting questions.

It seems that this thread is only for u. U ask questions and then answer urself.
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19-09-2005, 04:41 PM

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Buddy, plz wait for sometime after posting questions. It seems that this thread is only for u. U ask questions and then answer urself.
didn't get u....i am giving my shot at the Q....that may be correct or may not be....
I am posting the actual explanation with every subsequent question......
for more, details are given in the first post of the thread.

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U ask questions and then answer urself.
that is coz no one else is answering it.....:twiste d:


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20-09-2005, 08:27 AM

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Answer to Question 16

Choice E, the best answer, correctly uses a parallel construction to draw a logical comparison: Unlike a typical automobile loan,... a lease-loan....
Choice A illogically compares an automobile loan, an inanimate thing, with a lease-loan buyer, a person.
In choice C, buyers makes the comparison inconsistent in number as well as
illogical.
Choices B and D are syntactically and logically flawed because each attempts to compare the noun loan and a prepositional phrase: with lease-loan buying in B and/or the lease-loan buyer in D. Choices B and D are also imprecise and awkward. Finally, choice E is the only option that supplies an active verb form, does not require, to parallel requires.



Buddy dont take it in bad taste , but the way u answer it seems that u r not giving ur solutions or shot at the question but the real answer along with the solution.
chalo anyways, u r doing good thing and we should always look at the positive aspect. Keep it up.
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Hey!! - 20-09-2005, 09:24 AM

Hey Koseram man!! Good Going...

I m waiting for the next set of six questions for today... So, happy posting...




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xx iTs nOt thE siZe oF tHe dOg iN thE FigHt - bUt thE siZe oF tHe fiGHt iN tHe dOg xx

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20-09-2005, 10:24 AM

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Buddy dont take it in bad taste , but the way u answer it seems that u r not giving ur solutions or shot at the question but the real answer along with the solution.
chalo anyways, u r doing good thing and we should always look at the positive aspect. Keep it up.
burp.....wowwwwwwwww...I am delighted to see that
if I can do the same for all the questions, my purpose of the exercise is achieved....


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20-09-2005, 10:25 AM

sorry for the delay frnds......

today's first Q.....

17. Native American burial sites dating back 5,000 years indicate that the residents of Maine at that time were part of a widespread culture of Algonquian-speaking people.

(A) were part of a widespread culture of Algonquian-speaking people

(B) had been part of a widespread culture of people who were Algonquian-speaking

(C) were people who were part of a widespread culture that was Algonquian-speaking

(D) had been people who were part of a widespread culture that was Algonquian-speaking

(E) were a people which had been part of a widespread, Algonquian-speaking culture


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20-09-2005, 10:40 AM

my take on 17....:sly::sly:

couldn't find any distinct approach for this.....
but C looks more appropriate than A.....
since flow that says, ".....resident of Maine were people who were part of a ......" is more coherent than A which says, "...residents of Maine at that time were part of a widespread culture.... "


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