.Only seven people this century have been killed by the great white shark, the man-eater of the moviesless than those killed by bee stings.
a. moviesless than those b. moviesfewer than have been
The book also says, that a Dash can be used to restate or explain the earlier part of the sentence, which again does not fit the bill as per me. Can some one help me understand if the part of the sentence after the dash in any ways restates or explains the earlier part?
Only seven people this century have been killed by the great white shark, the man-eater of the moviesless than those killed by bee stings.
Yes I can see how the part after dash is explaining the part before dash. The sentence is saying that only 7 people have been killed by sharks - the sharks that are portrayed in the movies as man-eater. But contrast this with the fact that this number is less than the number of people who are killed by bee stings. The paradox is evident in this sentence. On one hand the sentence states that sharks are man-eater. On the other hand the comparison of number of deaths shows that fewer people were killed by sharks than by bee stings!!
Let me what you think about this explanation...:) Aman
The commission has directed advertisers to restrict the use of the word "natural" to foods that do not contain color or flavor additives, chemical preservatives, or nothing that has been synthesized.
A . or nothing that has been B .or that has been C .and nothing that is D .or anything that has been E .and anything
The commission has directed advertisers to restrict the use of the word "natural" to foods that do not contain color or flavor additives, chemical preservatives, or nothing that has been synthesized.
A . or nothing that has been B .or that has been C .and nothing that is D .or anything that has been E .and anything
1 In the mid-sixteenth century a controversy arose with mixed motives during a period in history when growing population and the expansion of trade were encouraging the vigorous promotion of wine to be a nutritious as well as medicinal beverage.
were encouraging the vigorous promotion of wine to be a nutritious as well as medicinal beverage.
had encouraged the vigorous promotion of wine as a beverage that is both nutritious and medicinal.
encouraged the vigorous promotion of wine as a nutritious and medicinal beverage.
helped encourage the vigorous promotion of wine as nutritious as well as medicinal.
were encouraging the vigorous promotion of wine as nutritious and medicinal.
2 There are pressing reasons to call for a microeconomics of greater empirical veracity and more methodological scrupulousness, rather than greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
rather than greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
thereby of a greater descriptive and analytical power.
leading to greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
thus, greater descriptive and analytical powers.
therefore a greater descriptive and analytical power
1 In the mid-sixteenth century a controversy arose with mixed motives during a period in history when growing population and the expansion of trade were encouraging the vigorous promotion of wine to be a nutritious as well as medicinal beverage.
were encouraging the vigorous promotion of wine to be a nutritious as well as medicinal beverage.
had encouraged the vigorous promotion of wine as a beverage that is both nutritious and medicinal.
encouraged the vigorous promotion of wine as a nutritious and medicinal beverage.
helped encourage the vigorous promotion of wine as nutritious as well as medicinal.
were encouraging the vigorous promotion of wine as nutritious and medicinal.
2 There are pressing reasons to call for a microeconomics of greater empirical veracity and more methodological scrupulousness, rather than greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
rather than greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
thereby of a greater descriptive and analytical power.
leading to greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
thus, greater descriptive and analytical powers.
therefore a greater descriptive and analytical power
My take:
Q1. is option C
Q2. Seems not so clear a question: Will go with option A (others change the meaning 😛 )
1 In the mid-sixteenth century a controversy arose with mixed motives during a period in history when growing population and the expansion of trade were encouraging the vigorous promotion of wine to be a nutritious as well as medicinal beverage.
were encouraging the vigorous promotion of wine to be a nutritious as well as medicinal beverage.
had encouraged the vigorous promotion of wine as a beverage that is both nutritious and medicinal.
encouraged the vigorous promotion of wine as a nutritious and medicinal beverage.
helped encourage the vigorous promotion of wine as nutritious as well as medicinal.
were encouraging the vigorous promotion of wine as nutritious and medicinal.
2 There are pressing reasons to call for a microeconomics of greater empirical veracity and more methodological scrupulousness, rather than greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
rather than greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
thereby of a greater descriptive and analytical power.
leading to greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
thus, greater descriptive and analytical powers.
therefore a greater descriptive and analytical power
Here is my approach:
Q1. This q. is based on TENSE problem. The non-underlined sentence is in PAST tense (In the mid 16th century ..... arose), so the latter half of the sentence should also be in PAST ... Infact, there are two actions: ENCOURAGEMENT of wine and as a consequence to this, controversy AROSE
A) WERE ENCOURAGING is in past progressive.. so essentially the sentence means that controversy arose simultaneously with encouragement ...
B) HAD ENCOURAGED is past perfect .. I dont think we need to differentiate the actions by using past perfect since the causal relationship is clear .. moreover, the dash also makes the sentence awkward .. (if you read thru couple of last pages, you wl find discussion on usage of dash)
C) ENCOURAGED ... past tense .. structure is fine too ..
D) helped encourage seems redundant ... also 'beverage' is missing
E) same problem as A
Q2. The structure should be: Pressing reasons to call for microeconomics of X rather than Y
A goes with this ... all other sentences depict the second half as consequence ... not sure if that is correct ...
The commission has directed advertisers to restrict the use of the word "natural" to foods that do not contain color or flavor additives, chemical preservatives, or nothing that has been synthesized.
A . or nothing that has been B .or that has been C .and nothing that is D .or anything that has been E .and anything
The commission has directed advertisers to restrict the use of the word "natural" to foods that do not contain color or flavor additives, chemical preservatives, or nothing that has been synthesized.
A . or nothing that has been B .or that has been C .and nothing that is D .or anything that has been E .and anything
Cheers!
it should be D..nothing causes double negative effect..
1 In the mid-sixteenth century a controversy arose with mixed motives during a period in history when growing population and the expansion of trade were encouraging the vigorous promotion of wine to be a nutritious as well as medicinal beverage.
were encouraging the vigorous promotion of wine to be a nutritious as well as medicinal beverage.
had encouraged the vigorous promotion of wine as a beverage that is both nutritious and medicinal.
encouraged the vigorous promotion of wine as a nutritious and medicinal beverage.
helped encourage the vigorous promotion of wine as nutritious as well as medicinal.
were encouraging the vigorous promotion of wine as nutritious and medicinal.
2 There are pressing reasons to call for a microeconomics of greater empirical veracity and more methodological scrupulousness, rather than greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
rather than greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
thereby of a greater descriptive and analytical power.
leading to greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
thus, greater descriptive and analytical powers.
therefore a greater descriptive and analytical power
My take : 1. C - Past tense + Concise 2. B - Parallelism - microeconomics of.....thereby of...
1 in the mid-sixteenth century a controversy arose with mixed motives during a period in history when growing population and the expansion of trade were encouraging the vigorous promotion of wine to be a nutritious as well as medicinal beverage.
were encouraging the vigorous promotion of wine to be a nutritious as well as medicinal beverage.
had encouraged the vigorous promotion of wine as a beverage that is both nutritious and medicinal.
encouraged the vigorous promotion of wine as a nutritious and medicinal beverage.
helped encourage the vigorous promotion of wine as nutritious as well as medicinal.
were encouraging the vigorous promotion of wine as nutritious and medicinal.
2 there are pressing reasons to call for a microeconomics of greater empirical veracity and more methodological scrupulousness, rather than greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
rather than greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
thereby of a greater descriptive and analytical power.
leading to greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
thus, greater descriptive and analytical powers.
therefore a greater descriptive and analytical power
The commission has directed advertisers to restrict the use of the word "natural" to foods that do not contain color or flavor additives, chemical preservatives, or nothing that has been synthesized.
A . or nothing that has been B .or that has been C .and nothing that is D .or anything that has been E .and anything
1 In the mid-sixteenth century a controversy arose with mixed motives during a period in history when growing population and the expansion of trade were encouraging the vigorous promotion of wine to be a nutritious as well as medicinal beverage.
were encouraging the vigorous promotion of wine to be a nutritious as well as medicinal beverage.
had encouraged the vigorous promotion of wine as a beverage that is both nutritious and medicinal.
encouraged the vigorous promotion of wine as a nutritious and medicinal beverage.
helped encourage the vigorous promotion of wine as nutritious as well as medicinal.
were encouraging the vigorous promotion of wine as nutritious and medicinal.
2 There are pressing reasons to call for a microeconomics of greater empirical veracity and more methodological scrupulousness, rather than greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
rather than greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
thereby of a greater descriptive and analytical power.
leading to greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
thus, greater descriptive and analytical powers.
therefore a greater descriptive and analytical power
1 In the mid-sixteenth century a controversy arose with mixed motives during a period in history when growing population and the expansion of trade were encouraging the vigorous promotion of wine to be a nutritious as well as medicinal beverage.
were encouraging the vigorous promotion of wine to be a nutritious as well as medicinal beverage.
had encouraged the vigorous promotion of wine as a beverage that is both nutritious and medicinal.
encouraged the vigorous promotion of wine as a nutritious and medicinal beverage.
helped encourage the vigorous promotion of wine as nutritious as well as medicinal.
were encouraging the vigorous promotion of wine as nutritious and medicinal.
2 There are pressing reasons to call for a microeconomics of greater empirical veracity and more methodological scrupulousness, rather than greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
rather than greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
thereby of a greater descriptive and analytical power.
leading to greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
thus, greater descriptive and analytical powers.
therefore a greater descriptive and analytical power
1 In the mid-sixteenth century a controversy arose with mixed motives during a period in history when growing population and the expansion of trade were encouraging the vigorous promotion of wine to be a nutritious as well as medicinal beverage.
were encouraging the vigorous promotion of wine to be a nutritious as well as medicinal beverage.
had encouraged the vigorous promotion of wine - as a beverage that is both nutritious and medicinal.
encouraged the vigorous promotion of wine as a nutritious and medicinal beverage.
helped encourage the vigorous promotion of wine as nutritious as well as medicinal.
were encouraging the vigorous promotion of wine as nutritious and medicinal.
2 There are pressing reasons to call for a microeconomics of greater empirical veracity and more methodological scrupulousness, rather than greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
rather than greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
thereby of a greater descriptive and analytical power.
leading to greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
thus, greater descriptive and analytical powers.
therefore a greater descriptive and analytical power
For 1, I would go with 3, it uses the correct Tenses
For 2, I am not too sure, I dont like any of the answer choices. 2 is parallel but i dont think it conveys the correct meaning. 4 would have been correct if it read "thus of greater....." Can some experts shed some light on this one?
1 In the mid-sixteenth century a controversy arose with mixed motives during a period in history when growing population and the expansion of trade were encouraging the vigorous promotion of wine to be a nutritious as well as medicinal beverage.
were encouraging the vigorous promotion of wine to be a nutritious as well as medicinal beverage.
had encouraged the vigorous promotion of wine as a beverage that is both nutritious and medicinal.
encouraged the vigorous promotion of wine as a nutritious and medicinal beverage.
helped encourage the vigorous promotion of wine as nutritious as well as medicinal.
were encouraging the vigorous promotion of wine as nutritious and medicinal.
2 There are pressing reasons to call for a microeconomics of greater empirical veracity and more methodological scrupulousness, rather than greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
rather than greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
thereby of a greater descriptive and analytical power.
leading to greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
thus, greater descriptive and analytical powers.
therefore a greater descriptive and analytical power
Market research has shown that the newest model of E-Phone gained widespread popularity not due to technical superiority but through seamless and intuitive design.
A. gained widespread popularity not due to technical superiority but through seamless B. gained widespread popularity not only due to technical superiority but also through seamless C. did not gain widespread popularity due to technical superiority but through seamless D. did not gain widespread popularity in consideration of technical superiority but rather due to seamless E. gaining widespread popularity not due to technical superiority but also through seamless