Any body met this nasty SC before?

[bigp]

For many travelers, charter vacations often turn out to cost considerably more than they originally seemed.

 

(A) they originally seemed

(B) they originally seem to

© they seemingly would cost originally

(D) it seemed originally

(E) it originally seemed they would

 

 

Two unofficial answer for this question. (A) & (E)

 

what do you guys think?

[Ashie]

My pick is B.

 

The pronoun after 'than' should refer to 'charter vacations' and hence it should be 'they'. That eliminates D & E.

C - improper construction

Between A & B, I chose B because of the phrase 'seem to (cost)'

[crash]

B for me too.

 

D, E are out for using it to represent vacations

 

B is the most parallel. "...turn out to cost....then they originally seem to "

 

-- I hate questions without OA's!

[FZanjani]

although THEY is a bit ambguos but one can rationalise that they refers to vcations and not the travellers....therefore nothing wrong with (A), especially given the rest of the choices are so much worse.

[Psyzygy]

I picked E. Not sure about this one at all.

[andy_deb]

I picked D... Although E is a close 2nd ... this is a toughie !!! OA ?

[fighter]

For many travelers, charter vacations often turn out to cost considerably more

than they originally seemed

( we are refering to the cost of the charter vacations)

If we did not have they we would have replaced the same by:

more than the costs seemed.

A) they originally seemed

(B) they originally seem to

© they seemingly would cost originally

(D) it seemed originally

(E) it originally seemed they would

So I eliminate options A B and C.

Between d and E.

I go for E.

Pls post the Oa and spiderman, Ursula,shaq pls contribute your views.

[pstracey]

im would give it a go with A or B ...A seems to have no probelm with it..

[SuM]

I would go with A.

[qhoc0010]

(E) Best

[steve_shekhar]

A is my pick.

[jimjohn]

E.

more than it (the cost) originally seemed they (vacations) would

[champ]

My answer is E

[DEVIKA]

B. agree with crash

[curtleey]

i think answer is D.OA pl.!!

[Erin]

Quoting myself from Sentence Correction:

 

 

I vote for E.

I think only E is grammatically correct.

 

a. they originally seemed to

b. they originally seemed to

c. they seemingly? would cost originally?

d. it seemed originally that they would

e. it originally seemed (that) they would (cost).

This is a good start. For instance, B would need to be in past tense, seemed. In fact, I often teach GMAT and TOEFL students that the words original (and its derivations) and first usually require past tense.

 

Furthermore, the "past future" of would in E is more precise than the simple past in A (or that B is lacking, in case you're going to ask if B would be correct if we changed seem to seemed). Since we're talking about something we'd learn after a certain point in the past, would is better.

 

For example:

• This Acura is a lot better than I thought it would be.
  

is better than

• This Acura is a lot better than I thought it was.
  

In the first example, we are saying that something turned out to be true. In the second example, we are saying that we were not aware of a fact that was true at that time.

 

And in the charter vacations question, there is no fact that the travelers were unaware of when they purchased the charter vacation--after the original purchase of the charter vacation (and probably toward the end of the vacation), the charter vacation turned out to be more costly than they had at first believed it would be.

[nikki_parekh]

i think the best answer is b l

[ashokkkannan]

I pick A.

[comp_bos]

Why A is preferred over B ?

 

B:

turn out to cost.... originally seem to.

 

Please explain

[comp_bos]

oops dint see next page

My Bad. Never Mind

[piyusht]

A for me. Whts the OA. Erin, you are required here !

[piyusht]

Quoting myself from Sentence Correction:

 

 

This is a good start. For instance, B would need to be in past tense, seemed. In fact, I often teach GMAT and TOEFL students that the words original (and its derivations) and first usually require past tense.

 

Furthermore, the "past future" of would in E is more precise than the simple past in A (or that B is lacking, in case you're going to ask if B would be correct if we changed seem to seemed). Since we're talking about something we'd learn after a certain point in the past, would is better.

 

For example:

• This Acura is a lot better than I thought it would be.
  

is better than

• This Acura is a lot better than I thought it was.
  

In the first example, we are saying that something turned out to be true. In the second example, we are saying that we were not aware of a fact that was true at that time.

 

And in the charter vacations question, there is no fact that the travelers were unaware of when they purchased the charter vacation--after the original purchase of the charter vacation (and probably toward the end of the vacation), the charter vacation turned out to be more costly than they had at first believed it would be.

 

So whts your pick erin?

[800Bob]

The answer is E.

[sidd]

I pick B. Whats the OA?

[venkat8103]

The pronoun here is refereing to the cost.