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Re: Sentence Correction for CAT 2007 - 20-05-2007, 09:29 PM

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The first set of questions ......

1.A “calendar stick” carved centuries ago by the Winnebago tribe may provide the first evidence that the North American Indians have developed advanced full-year calendars basing them on systematic astronomical observation.
(A) that the North American Indians have developed advanced full-year calendars basing them
(B) of the North American Indians who have developed advanced full-year calendars and based them
(C) of the development of advanced full-year calendars by North American Indians, basing them
(D) of the North American Indians and their development of advanced full-year calendars based
(E) that the North American Indians developed advanced full-year calendars based
2.A 1972 agreement between Canada and the United States reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump into the Great Lakes.
(A) reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities had been allowed to dump
(B) reduced the phosphate amount that municipalities had been dumping
(C) reduces the phosphate amount municipalities have been allowed to dump
(D) reduced the amount of phosphates that municipalities are allowed to dump
(E) reduces the amount of phosphates allowed for dumping by municipalities
3.A collection of 38 poems by Phillis Wheatley, a slave, was published in the 1770’s, the first book by a Black woman and it was only the second published by an American woman.
(A) it was only the second published by an American woman
(B) it was only the second that an American woman published
(C) the second one only published by an American woman
(D) the second one only that an American woman published
(E) only the second published by an American woman
4.A common disability in test pilots is hearing impairment, a consequence of sitting too close to large jet engines for long periods of time.
(A) a consequence of sitting too close to large jet engines for long periods of time
(B) a consequence from sitting for long periods of time too near to large jet engines
(C) a consequence which resulted from sitting too close to large jet engines for long periods of time
(D) damaged from sitting too near to large jet engines for long periods of time
(E) damaged because they sat too close to large jet engines for long periods of time
5.A controversial figure throughout most of his public life, the Black leader Marcus Garvey advocated that some Blacks return to Africa, the land that, to him, symbolized the possibility of freedom.
(A) that some Blacks return to Africa, the land that, to him, symbolized the possibility of freedom
(B) that some Blacks return to the African land symbolizing the possibility of freedom to him
(C) that some Blacks return to Africa which was the land which symbolized the possibility of freedom to him
(D) some Black’s returning to Africa which was the land that to him symbolized the possibility of freedom
(E) some Black’s return to the land symbolizing the possibility of freedom to him, Africa

My take on dese questions are
1) E
2) D
3) E
4) A
5) B
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Re: Sentence Correction for CAT 2007 - 20-05-2007, 09:51 PM

1.e
2.d
3.e
4.a
5.a
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Re: Sentence Correction for CAT 2007 - 20-05-2007, 09:55 PM

Here is my take on the sentence correction...
1) C
2) B
3) E
4) A
5) A
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Re: Sentence Correction for CAT 2007 - 21-05-2007, 10:01 AM

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Hey my answers are exactly the same.... for explanations u can refer to Official Guide to GMAT... :satisfie: all of these questions are posted directly from that Book...

@Geturdreams: I am sorry for revealing that secret... But I appreciate ur contribution towards the community...
First of all there is no question of revealing the secret and I am not taking any credit for starting a new thread.....In one of my posts i clearly mentioned that i am going to post the questions from Sentence Correction 1000 collection and some of the PG s have already solved them...but some of the answers there were not matching with my answers ....so I take the initiative to post the question in the forum ......thats all....nothing to hide ...my brother....if someone wants to post the answers by copying it from other site, its upto them ....we need practice nothing else ....if we go through the questions twice it is going to help us ....
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Re: Sentence Correction for CAT 2007 - 21-05-2007, 10:27 AM

Sorry for being late ....
Here goes the answers -----


1--e
2--a
3--e
4--a
5--a
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Re: Sentence Correction for CAT 2007 - 21-05-2007, 10:29 AM

The next set of questions .....

6.A fire in an enclosed space burns with the aid of reflected radiation that preheats the fuel, making ignition much easier and flames spreading more quickly.
(A) flames spreading
(B) flame spreads
(C) flames are caused to spread
(D) causing flames to spread
(E) causing spreading of the flames


7.A firm that specializes in the analysis of handwriting claims from a one-page writing sample that it can assess more than three hundred personality traits, including enthusiasm, imagination, and ambition.
(A) from a one-page writing sample that it can assess
(B) from a one-page writing sample it has the ability of assessing
(C) the ability, from a one-page writing sample, of assessing
(D) to be able, from a one-page writing sample, to assess
(E) being able to assess, from a one-page writing sample,


8.A huge flying reptile that died out with the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago, the Quetzalcoatlus had a wingspan of 36 feet, believed to be the largest flying creature the world has ever seen.
(A) believed to be
(B) and that is believed to be
(C) and it is believed to have been
(D) which was, it is believed,
(E) which is believed to be


9.A Labor Department study states that the numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase in the past decade and accounted for more than sixty-two percent of the total growth in the civilian work force.
(A) numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase
(B) numbers of women employed outside the home grew more than thirty-five percent
(C) numbers of women employed outside the home were raised by more than thirty-five percent
(D) number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent
(E) number of women employed outside the home was raised by more than a thirty-five percent increase


10.A large rise in the number of housing starts in the coming year should boost new construction dollars by several billion dollars, making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago.
(A) making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago
(B) and make the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago
(C) making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than it was five years ago
(D) to make the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago
(E) in making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than it as five years ago
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Re: Sentence Correction for CAT 2007 - 21-05-2007, 10:57 AM

Moi jawaab

6)D
7)E
C
9)D
10)C
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Re: Sentence Correction for CAT 2007 - 21-05-2007, 11:01 AM

[quote=geturdream;783096]The next set of questions .....

Here's my take on these

6 d
7 b
8 e
9 d
10 b

@geturdream,

Could you please post the explanations for the correct answers for the last 5 questions?
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Re: Sentence Correction for CAT 2007 - 21-05-2007, 11:06 AM

Moi answers

6) D
7) E
C
9) D
10) C

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Re: Sentence Correction for CAT 2007 - 21-05-2007, 11:21 AM

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@geturdream,

Could you please post the explanations for the correct answers for the last 5 questions?

refer to these link ....
http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/782684-post18.html
http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/englis...tml#post782742 (Sentence Correction for CAT 2007)

the answers have been explained by junoonmba and aslipaagal

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