San Franciscans of the 1890s mocked the claim that declared Los Angeles a world city, yet within 20 years a powerful municipal will had made this boast a reality.
1. yet within 20 years a powerful municipal will had made this boast a reality. 2. yet within 20 years a powerful municipal will made this boast a reality. 3. yet a powerful municipal within 20 years will make this boast a reality. 4. yet this boast had become a reality within 20 years because of a powerful will municipally 5. yet within 20 years a municipal will had made this boast a powerful reality.
Option 2 sounds good to me.."had made" is wrong because the second statement occurred after the 1st statement.
The bank holds $3 billion in loans that are seriously delinquent or in such trouble that they do not expect payments when due.
(a)they do not expect payments when
(b)it does not expect payments when it is
(c)it does not expect payments to be made when they are
(d)payments are not to be expected to be paid when
(e)payments are not expected to be paid when they will be
Also, could someone plz tell me the meaning of "delinquent" in this context? Thanks!
Answer is C (My View) If you will break this sentence in to 2 parts it would be like Part 1 - The bank holds $3 billion in loans that are seriously delinquent. (Considering delinquent means Over Due) Part 2 Bank is in such trouble that they do not expect payments when due. In part 2, keep in mind that Bank is singular and intransitive which needs to be addressed with it and word Payments is plural. In the options list only B and C starts with it but Option B says it does not expect payments when it is which referring to word payments as singular. So the answer is C It does not expect payments to be made when they are Please correct me if I am wrong -Sandy
Hi Navin, this does not look like an official question, but has a good learning.
There are actually 3 events that this sentence talks about:
1.San Franciscans mocking the claim in 1890's 2.20 years passing since then 3.But, before those 20 years passed (within 20 years), powerful municipal will made this boast a reality.
Hence, if you look at points 2 and 3 above, while both 2 and 3 occurred in the past, 3 happened before 2 and hence, 3 should be in past perfect (in this case: had made). Hence, 1 is the right answer.
p.s. Hopefully you did realize that will is not used as an auxiliary verb, but as a noun (as in will power).
ok maybe there is a difference in comprehending the sentence.. the way i look at it is this....the will was passed 20 years before..but the will made this boast a reality after 20 years i.e. much later - the most recent of the events..
Going by what you say..nothing really happened after 20 years..
That's correct. The sentence is not talking about something happening after 20 years; 20 years is used as a frame of reference.
Another similar question:
In 1981 children in the United States spent an average of slightly less than two and a half hours a week doing household chores; by 1997 that figure had grown to nearly six hours a week.
As i think of it, when a sentence talks about 2 actions in the past..the former one i.e the one that occurred first uses past perfect sense.
which is what you stated previously as well
Going by that logic, the above "had grown" should be incorrect since it is referring to the more recent figure. that only leaves me with "grew" as a possibility.
The event of growing of that figure to nearly six hours a week occured earlier than 1997 (a logical timeframe, if it helps you better understand the sequence).
Though he had had success broadcasting his controversial radio program on highly regulated terrestrial airwaves, Howard Stern opted out of terrestrial broadcasting in favor of the less regulated satellite radio medium.
a) Though he had had b)Though he has had c) Even though he had d) Having had e) Having achieved
Source: MGMAT CAT Though he had had success broadcasting his controversial radio program on highly regulated terrestrial airwaves, Howard Stern opted out of terrestrial broadcasting in favor of the less regulated satellite radio medium.
a) Though he had had b)Though he has had c) Even though he had d) Having had e) Having achieved
Though he had had success broadcasting his controversial radio program on highly regulated terrestrial airwaves, Howard Stern opted out of terrestrial broadcasting in favor of the less regulated satellite radio medium.
a) Though he had had b)Though he has had c) Even though he had d) Having had e) Having achieved
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Though he had had success broadcasting his controversial radio program on highly regulated terrestrial airwaves, Howard Stern opted out of terrestrial broadcasting in favor of the less regulated satellite radio medium.
a) Though he had had b)Though he has had c) Even though he had d) Having had e) Having achieved
Though he had had success broadcasting his controversial radio program on highly regulated terrestrial airwaves, Howard Stern opted out of terrestrial broadcasting in favor of the less regulated satellite radio medium.
a) Though he had had b)Though he has had c) Even though he had d) Having had e) Having achieved
What is wrong with option C..?? Can smbody plz explain....
For the farmer who takes care to keep them cool,providing them with high-energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing an average of 2,275 gallons of milk each per year. A. providing them with high-energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing B. providing them with high-energy feed, and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces C. provided with high-energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing D. provided with high-energy feed, and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces E. provided with high-energy feed, and milked regularly, Holstein cows will produce
For the farmer who takes care to keep them cool,providing them with high-energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing an average of 2,275 gallons of milk each per year. A. providing them with high-energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing B. providing them with high-energy feed, and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces C. provided with high-energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing D. provided with high-energy feed, and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces E. provided with high-energy feed, and milked regularly, Holstein cows will produce
For the farmer who takes care to keep them cool,providing them with high-energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing an average of 2,275 gallons of milk each per year. A. providing them with high-energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing B. providing them with high-energy feed, and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces C. provided with high-energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing D. provided with high-energy feed, and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces E. provided with high-energy feed, and milked regularly, Holstein cows will produce
pls explain ur ans choice....
My take - A. But I have a doubt... can a pronoun come before its antecedent..??? plz smbdy explain..
Guys, the OA given is "E", but no explanation is given....
Initially when i start solving this question, first i drop choices B, D as in "For the farmer who takes care to keep them cool" pronoun "them" cant refer to singular "the Holstein cow", the last clause
After this i stuck, but now i think i can explain...the error here is meaning clarity....
providing them with high-energy feed, and milking them regularly, means the farmers are providing high-energy feed, and milk to cows...
but i think the sentence wanna suggest that its the farmers who goona get the high-energy feed and milk regularly if they keep the cows cool... and for this "provided with" phrase shld be used..also A, C is wrong as they use "milking Them"...which again means cows get the milk....hence E remains
Guys, the OA given is "E", but no explanation is given....
Initially when i start solving this question, first i drop choices B, D as in "For the farmer who takes care to keep them cool" pronoun "them" cant refer to singular "the Holstein cow", the last clause
After this i stuck, but now i think i can explain...the error here is meaning clarity....
providing them with high-energy feed, and milking them regularly, means the farmers are providing high-energy feed, and milk to cows...
but i think the sentence wanna suggest that its the farmers who goona get the high-energy feed and milk regularly if they keep the cows cool... and for this "provided with" phrase shld be used..also A, C is wrong as they use "milking Them"...which again means cows get the milk....hence E remains
pls correct me if m wrong...
Firstly, the original statement has hosltein cows, so the use of plural is correct.
where is this question from? I am still going with A
its definitely the cows that are kept cool, by the process of feeding them and milking them..so "producing" and "milking" is not breach of faulty parallelism.
Guys, the OA given is "E", but no explanation is given....
Initially when i start solving this question, first i drop choices B, D as in "For the farmer who takes care to keep them cool" pronoun "them" cant refer to singular "the Holstein cow", the last clause
After this i stuck, but now i think i can explain...the error here is meaning clarity....
providing them with high-energy feed, and milking them regularly, means the farmers are providing high-energy feed, and milk to cows...
but i think the sentence wanna suggest that its the farmers who goona get the high-energy feed and milk regularly if they keep the cows cool... and for this "provided with" phrase shld be used..also A, C is wrong as they use "milking Them"...which again means cows get the milk....hence E remains
pls correct me if m wrong...
Firstly, the original statement has hosltein cows, so the use of plural is correct.
where is this question from? I am still going with A
its definitely the cows that are kept cool, by the process of feeding them and milking them..so "producing" and "milking" is not breach of faulty parallelism.
For the farmer who takes care to keep them cool,providing them with high-energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing an average of 2,275 gallons of milk each per year. A. providing them with high-energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing B. providing them with high-energy feed, and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces C. provided with high-energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing D. provided with high-energy feed, and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces E. provided with high-energy feed, and milked regularly, Holstein cows will produce
pls explain ur ans choice....
I hope its not a thing done now...something will happen in the future...so,option (E)...(split & re-splits helps to identify the answer quickly )
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