Sentence Correction for CAT 2008

[Fabio capello]

121 E
122 A
123 E
124 D
125 C

[TheMBASeeker]

121. E
122. A
123. C
124. C
125. C
waiting for answers!!

[catbit]

piscean84-SC1-3/7/08-pg66

121 E
122 A
123 C
124 C
125 D

[shivam_01]

Re: piscean84-SC1-3/7/08-pg66

my solution would be
121 E
122 A
123 C
124 B
125 E

i am new to this thread when are solutions out and at what time the new post comes please tell >>>>

[anil.iitkgp]

hey pgs.. my take.. donno how many r wrong..
121)E
122)A
123)C
124)B
125)D

[piscean84]

Hi puys,

Sorry for the delay in posting the answers

Answers for the set piscean84-SC1-3/7/08-pg66

121. E
122. A
123. C
124. C
125. D

Answer to Question 121
Choice E is best: the infinitive to prepare follows the verb ordered, producing the grammatical and idiomatic sequence x ordered y to do z. By contrast, should prepare in A and would do in B produce ungrammatical sequences: x ordered y should/ would do z. In C, preparing . . . communities functions as a participial phrase modifying citizens rather than as a verb phrase describing what the citizens were ordered to do. In D, the construction ordered panels of common citizens the preparing is unidiomatic.

Answer to Question 122
Choice A is best: the appositive terms character and composition, both singular, agree in number; both also agree with the singular possessive pronoun its. In all the other choices, this three-way agreement in number is violated.

Answer to Question 123
The focus here is on the phrases x and y in the construction shifting environmental problems from x to y. In choice C, the best answer, x and y are parallel not only grammatically but also logically: in each phrase, an environmental problem (pollution) affects a substance (water, air) and is caused by an agent (landfills,
incinerators). In choice A the noun landfills (agent) is not grammatically or logically parallel with the verb phrase polluting the air (environmental problem); in B, landfills is not logically parallel with air (substance affected). The terms pollution (problem) in D and water (substance) in E are not logically parallel with incinerators (agent).

Answer to Question 124
In choices A and B, after when is unidiomatic: one word or the other can be used to establish temporal sequence, but not both together. In D, the phrase at the time after is awkward and temporally confusing; moreover, the present tense develops is used incorrectly to describe action completed in the past. In E, the construction after there being... support is ungrammatical. Choice C, grammatical and idiomatic, is the best
answer.

Answer to Question 125
Choice D, the best answer, correctly employs the correlative construction not only x but also y, where x and y are grammatically parallel and where both x and y (damage and destroy) apply to young plants. Choices A, (not only ... and also), B (not only ... as well as), and C (not only ... but they also) violate the not only ... but
also paradigm. Moreover, B contains terms (blow... damaging) that are not parallel. In C and E, damage is used not as a verb with young plants as its direct object but as a noun receiving the action of cause; consequently, these choices fail to state explicitly that the damage is done to young plants. E also violates
parallelism (not only blow ... but also causing).

[piscean84]

Hi,

piscean84-SC1-pg69

Todays Set.

126. More than thirty years ago Dr. Barbara McClintock, the Nobel Prize winner, reported that genes can "jump," as pearls moving mysteriously from one necklace to another.
(A) as pearls moving mysteriously from one necklace to another
(B) like pearls moving mysteriously from one necklace to another
(C) as pearls do that move mysteriously from one necklace to others
(D) like pearls do that move mysteriously from one necklace to others
(E) as do pearls that move mysteriously from one necklace to some other one

127. In theory, international civil servants at the United Nations are prohibited from continuing to draw salaries from their own governments; in practice, however, some governments merely substitute living allowances for their employees' paychecks. assigned by them to the United Nations.
(A) for their employees' paychecks, assigned by them
(B) for the paychecks of their employees who have been assigned
(C) for the paychecks of their employees, having been assigned
(D) in place of their employees' paychecks, for those of them assigned
(E) in place of the paychecks of their employees to have been assigned by them

128. New hardy varieties of rice show promise of producing high yields without the costly requirements of irrigation and application of commercial fertilizer by earlier high-yielding varieties.
(A) requirements of irrigation and application of commercial fertilizer by earlier high-yielding varieties
(B) requirements by earlier high-yielding varieties of application of commercial fertilizer and irrigation
(C) requirements for application of commercial fertilizer and irrigation of earlier high-yielding varieties
(D) application of commercial fertilizer and irrigation that was required by earlier high-yielding varieties
(E) irrigation and application of commercial fertilizer that were required by earlier high-yielding varieties

129. In an effort to reduce their inventories, Italian vintners have cut prices; their wines have been priced to sell. and they are.
(A) have been priced to sell, and they are
(B) are priced to sell, and they have
(C) are priced to sell, and they do
(D) are being priced to sell, and have
(E) had been priced to sell, and they have

130. In a 5-to-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that two upstate New York counties owed restitution to three tribes of Oneida Indians for the unlawful seizure of their ancestral lands in the eighteenth century.
(A) that two upstate New York counties owed restitution to three tribes of Oneida Indians for the unlawful seizure of
(B) that two upstate New York counties owed restitution to three tribes of Oneida Indians because of their unlawful seizure of
(C) two upstate New York counties to owe restitution to three tribes of Oneida Indians for their unlawful seizure of
(D) on two upstate New York counties that owed restitution to three tribes of Oneida Indians because they unlawfully seized
(E) on the restitution that two upstate New York counties owed to three tribes of Oneida Indians for the unlawful seizure of

Puys i would be out of town for a week so wont be able to post question during tht time i just hope someone takes the onus and keep this thread alive.

I have attached the solution of this set so you guys can do the exercise and check the answers.

Hope to catch u all after a week.

[anil.iitkgp]

i got 4 correct yeppie..

[meenuv87]

3 correct ,,,

[Ambuj Chat]

All five correct!!!!