Sentence Correction for CAT 2008

[bhargava2008]

246- C
247- D
248- C
249- B
250- C

[dhanu_25]

RE: piscean84-SC1-19/8/8-pg117

246. C
247. E
248. C
249. B
250. C -confusing one

[piyushpth]

My take
246 C
247 C
248 C
249 E
250 D

[tarunkabra]

My Take,
246-C
247-B
248-C
249-
250-C

[vishrock]

RE: piscean84-SC1-19/8/8-pg117

My Take


c
c
c
b
e

[kewl.bantee]

piscean84-SC1-19/8/8-pg118

my attempts
B
C
E
B
B

[vamsi22]

Originally Posted by piscean84

puys,

piscean84-sc1-19/8/8-pg118

246. Joachim Raff And Giacomo Meyerbeer Are Examples Of The Kind Of Composer Who Receives Popular acclaim While Living, Often Goes Into Decline After Death, And Never Regains Popularity Again.
(a) Often Goes Into Decline After Death, And Never Regains Popularity Again
(b) Whose Reputation Declines After Death And Never Regains Its Status Again
(c) But Whose Reputation Declines After Death And Never Regains Its Former Status
(d) Who Declines In Reputation After Death And Who Never Regained Popularity Again
(e) Then Has Declined In Reputation After Death And Never Regained Popularity

247. Faced With An Estimated $2 Billion Budget Gap, The City's Mayor Proposed A Nearly 17 Percent Reduction In the Amount Allocated The Previous Year To Maintain The City's Major Cultural Institutions And To Subsidize hundreds Of Local Arts Groups.
(a) Proposed A Nearly 17 Percent Reduction In The Amount Allocated The Previous Year To Maintain The City's major Cultural Institutions And To Subsidize
(b) Proposed A Reduction From The Previous Year Of Nearly 17 Percent In The Amount It Was Allocating To maintain The City's Major Cultural Institutions And For Subsidizing
(c) Proposed To Reduce, By Nearly 17 Percent, The Amount From The Previous Year That Was Allocated For The maintenance Of The City's Major Cultural Institutions And To Subsidize
(d) Has Proposed A Reduction From The Previous Year Of Nearly 17 Percent Of The Amount It Was Allocating for Maintaining The City's Major Cultural Institutions, And To Subsidize
(e) Was Proposing That The Amount They Were Allocating Be Reduced By Nearly 17 Percent From The Previous year For Maintaining The City's Major Cultural Institutions And For The Subsidization


248. By Offering Lower Prices And A Menu Of Personal Communications Options, Such As Caller Identification And voice Mail, The New Telecommunications Company Has Not Only Captured Customers From Other Phone companies But Also Forced Them To Offer Competitive Prices.
(a) Has Not Only Captured Customers From Other Phone Companies But Also Forced Them
(b) Has Not Only Captured Customers From Other Phone Companies, But It Also Forced Them
(c) Has Not Only Captured Customers From Other Phone Companies But Also Forced These Companies
(d) Not Only Has Captured Customers From Other Phone Companies But Also These Companies Have Been forced
(e) Not Only Captured Customers From Other Phone Companies, But It Also Has Forced Them

249. Bluegrass Musician Bill Monroe, Whose Repertory, Views On Musical Collaboration, And Vocal Style Were influential On Generations Of Bluegrass Artists. Was Also An Inspiration To Many Musicians, That Included Elvis presley And Jerry Garcia. Whose Music Differed Significantly From His Own.
(a) Were Influential On Generations Of Bluegrass Artists, Was Also An Inspiration To Many Musicians, That included Elvis Presley And Jerry Garcia, Whose Music Differed Significantly From
(b) Influenced Generations Of Bluegrass Artists, Also Inspired Many Musicians, Including Elvis Presley And jerry Garcia, Whose Music Differed Significantly From
(c) Was Influential To Generations Of Bluegrass Artists, Was Also Inspirational To Many Musicians, That included Elvis Presley And Jerry Garcia, Whose Music Was Different Significantly In Comparison To
(d) Was Influential To Generations Of Bluegrass Artists, Also Inspired Many Musicians, Who Included Elvis presley And Jerry Garcia, The Music Of Whom Differed Significantly When Compared To
(e) Were An Influence On Generations Of Bluegrass Artists, Was Also An Inspiration To Many Musicians, including Elvis Presley And Jerry Garcia, Whose Music Was Significantly Different From That Of

250. The Company Announced That Its Profits Declined Much Less In The Second Quarter Than Analysts Had expected It To And Its Business Will Improve In The Second Half Of The Year.
(a) Had Expected It To And Its Business Will Improve
(b) Had Expected And That Its Business Would Improve
(c) Expected It Would And That It Will Improve Its Business
(d) Expected Them To And Its Business Would Improve
(e) Expected And That It Will Have Improved Its Business

246. B
247. C
248. A
249. B
250. C

[Varun Khullar]

246.c
247.a
248.c
249.b
250.b

[raghav507]

piscean84-SC1-19/8/8-pg117

hi puys,
my take:-

246. C
247. A
248. C
249. B
250. B

[piscean84]

puys,

Answers to the post piscean84-SC1-19/8/8-pg118

246. Joachim Raff and Giacomo Meyerbeer are examples of the kind of composer who receives popular acclaim while living, often goes into decline after death, and never regains popularity again.
(A) often goes into decline after death, and never regains popularity again
(B) whose reputation declines after death and never regains its status again
(C) but whose reputation declines after death and never regains its former status
(D) who declines in reputation after death and who never regained popularity again
(E) then has declined in reputation after death and never regained popularity
Answer to Question 246

Choice C, the best answer, maintains parallel structure, keeps verb tense consistent, and contains no redundancies. Choice A illogically suggests that it is the composer who goes into decline after death, rather than the composer's reputation. Choice A may also be faulted for the redundancy of never regains ... again. Choice
B is not correct. Grammatically, a coordinating conjunction (e.g., "but") is needed to join the clause whose reputation declines ... with the preceding clause, who receives popular acclaim.... Furthermore, the phrase never regains... again suffers from redundancy. Choices D and E suffer from inconsistency in verb tense. To maintain parallelism the verbs must be receives... declines... regains.

247. Faced with an estimated $2 billion budget gap, the city's mayor proposed a nearly 17 percent reduction in the amount allocated the previous year to maintain the city's major cultural institutions and to subsidize hundreds of local arts groups.
(A) proposed a nearly 17 percent reduction in the amount allocated the previous year to maintain the city's major cultural institutions and to subsidize
(B) proposed a reduction from the previous year of nearly 17 percent in the amount it was allocating to maintain the city's major cultural institutions and for subsidizing
(C) proposed to reduce, by nearly 17 percent, the amount from the previous year that was allocated for the maintenance of the city's major cultural institutions and to subsidize
(D) has proposed a reduction from the previous year of nearly 17 percent of the amount it was allocating for maintaining the city's major cultural institutions, and to subsidize
(E) was proposing that the amount they were allocating be reduced by nearly 17 percent from the previous year for maintaining the city's major cultural institutions and for the subsidization

Answer to Question 247
A is the best choice. The construction the amount allocated... to maintain... and to subsidize is parallel, while the phrase a nearly 17 percent reduction in the amount allocated the previous year is both clear and concise. In B, the phrase allocating to maintain... and for subsidizing is not parallel. The construction a reduction from the previous year of nearly 17 percent in the amount is awkward, imprecise, and excessively wordy. Furthermore, there is no grammatical referent for it in the phrase it was allocating. In C, the phrase proposed to reduce, by nearly 17 percent, the amount from the previous year that was allocated is unidiomatic and overly wordy. Choice C also violates parallelism with allocated for the maintenance of... and to subsidize. In D, there is no grammatical referent for it in the phrase it was allocating: the mayor, not the city, is the subject of the clause. Choice D also violates parallelism with allocating for maintaining ... and to subsidize. In E, the progressive was proposing is unnecessary, and there is no grammatical referent for they in the phrase they were allocating. Furthermore, for maintaining... and for the subsidization is not parallel.

248. By offering lower prices and a menu of personal communications options, such as caller identification and voice mail, the new telecommunications company has not only captured customers from other phone companies but also forced them to offer competitive prices.
(A) has not only captured customers from other phone companies but also forced them
(B) has not only captured customers from other phone companies, but it also forced them
(C) has not only captured customers from other phone companies but also forced these companies
(D) not only has captured customers from other phone companies but also these companies have been forced
(E) not only captured customers from other phone companies, but it also has forced them

Answer to Question 248
C, the best choice, correctly uses the parallel construction has not only x 'd but also y 'd and avoids ambiguity of reference by using these companies rather than them. In A, B, and E, the referent of the pronoun them is ambiguous; because them appears to be parallel to customers, the illogical suggestion is that the new telecommunications company has forced customers to offer competitive prices. Choices B and E may also be faulted for the improper insertion of it to refer redundantly to the new company. Finally, E is not parallel in verb tense with captured... has forced. Choice D does not maintain parallelism, unnecessarily shifting from active (company not only has captured) to passive (but also these companies have been forced).

249. Bluegrass musician Bill Monroe, whose repertory, views on musical collaboration, and vocal style were influential on generations of bluegrass artists. was also an inspiration to many musicians, that included Elvis Presley and Jerry Garcia. whose music differed significantly from his own.
(A) were influential on generations of bluegrass artists, was also an inspiration to many musicians, that included Elvis Presley and Jerry Garcia, whose music differed significantly from
(B) influenced generations of bluegrass artists, also inspired many musicians, including Elvis Presley and Jerry Garcia, whose music differed significantly from
(C) was influential to generations of bluegrass artists, was also inspirational to many musicians, that included Elvis Presley and Jerry Garcia, whose music was different significantly in comparison to
(D) was influential to generations of bluegrass artists, also inspired many musicians, who included Elvis Presley and Jerry Garcia, the music of whom differed significantly when compared to
(E) were an influence on generations of bluegrass artists, was also an inspiration to many musicians, including Elvis Presley and Jerry Garcia, whose music was significantly different from that of

Answer to Question 249
B, the best choice, is idiomatic, clear, and without agreement errors or redundancy. In A and E, the phrases were influential on and were an influence on are not idiomatic and furthermore could be replaced by the more direct influenced. In A, that included Elvis Presley and Jerry Garcia improperly modifies many musicians. In E, the construction different from that of his own is confusing since there is no referent for that: different from his own makes a logical comparison. Both C and D begin with the singular was; the compound subject of this verb is plural: repertory, views on musical collaboration, and vocal style. Both choices also may be faulted for wordiness and redundancy in their use of was different significantly in comparison to and differed significantly when compared to. In C, that included Elvis Presley and Jerry Garcia improperly modifies many musicians. Finally, the music of whom in D is cumbersome and stilted.

250. The company announced that its profits declined much less in the second quarter than analysts had expected it to and its business will improve in the second half of the year.
(A) had expected it to and its business will improve
(B) had expected and that its business would improve
(C) expected it would and that it will improve its business
(D) expected them to and its business would improve
(E) expected and that it will have improved its business

Answer to Question 250
B, the best choice, avoids errors of agreement, correctly uses the parallel construction that x and that y, and uses would rather than will to refer to a promised but uncertain future event. In A and C, singular it after expected has no grammatical referent: its antecedent cannot be The company, but rather must be the plural profits. Choices A and C also contain errors of verb form, using will where would is required. Choices A and D fail to maintain parallel structure: properly formed, the construction would have that after expected to parallel that after announced. Furthermore, in D, the addition of them to is unnecessary. Choice E illogically uses the future perfect will have improved to suggest completion of an action that will be continuous in the second half of the year.