CTG1983 Posted December 6, 2005 Share Posted December 6, 2005 Although the restaurant company has recently added many new restaurants across the country and its sales have increased dramatically, its sales at restaurants open for more than a year have declined. the restaurant company has recently added many new restaurants across the country and its sales have increased dramatically, its the restaurant company has recently added many new restaurants across the country and its sales increased dramatically, its many new restaurants have recently been opened across the country and its sales increased dramatically, the restaurant company’s having recently added many new restaurants across the country and with its sales increasing dramatically, the restaurant company’s recently adding many new restaurants across the country and having its sales increase dramatically, the restaurant company’s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serena1 Posted December 6, 2005 Share Posted December 6, 2005 a for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haddy74 Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 yep a... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erwin Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 usage of present perfect tense through out.. A seems fine.. But what is wrong with B? CTG1983, What is the source of these questions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mav Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 In B, increase should not be in simple past, it should be in present perfect to make parallelism with "have declined" at the end of the sentence A is the best (although I find "its" a little bit ambiguous since we also have "country" in the phrase) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTG1983 Posted December 7, 2005 Author Share Posted December 7, 2005 It's actual gmat question that may appear on ur test.Is there any concrete difference between A n' B? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
preity Posted December 7, 2005 Share Posted December 7, 2005 Yup. Agree with A. Only tense matters between A and B. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erwin Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 CTG1983 , can you let me know from where can i get these questions... I think the questions are really good.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTG1983 Posted December 8, 2005 Author Share Posted December 8, 2005 CTG1983 , can you let me know from where can i get these questions... I think the questions are really good.. Of course they r the most representative Qs u will ever find, even better than OG. Because they r still in the database of ETS www.gmatjj.blogspot.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erwin Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 Thanks a lot CTG1983. Appreciate your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShalomFang Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 Why not D ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfsafa Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 I have a confusion. When "recently" is used, the tense should be a past tense, not past perfect. It should be more like "Although the restaurant company recently added ..." than "Although the restaurant company has recently added..." I tend to pick E. Let me know if I am wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whsahhar Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 it's B the use of present tense isnt appropriate here because the saled didn't go up and then down, but rather they went up overall, and only those of older restaurants went down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayarya Posted June 29, 2006 Share Posted June 29, 2006 B it is. A has a subject/Verb agreement problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
safazal Posted June 30, 2006 Share Posted June 30, 2006 Go with A. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vishalsoft Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 A for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaurav_inf Posted July 17, 2006 Share Posted July 17, 2006 Hi CTG1983 , That link is not working :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chatru Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 Out of "A' and "B" I would go with "A" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerthelogic Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 another vote for A. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sept1806 Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 'increased' is better than 'have increased'- short and consice, but in this case we need to have Parallelism. Any thoughts? Go with A. Answer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kk_del Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 Clearly A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shishira Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 Of course they r the most representative Qs u will ever find, even better than OG. Because they r still in the database of ETS www.gmatjj.blogspot.com CTG, This link is not working. Any trick here to access this website? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andres Posted July 18, 2006 Share Posted July 18, 2006 Like ShalomFang I would appreciate an explanation why not D. I think in A the pronoun "its" after " country" has not one clear reference. It could either refer to the country's sales or to the company's sales. On the contary D doesn't have this ambiguity. Does anyone knows what is wrong with D? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rits700 Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 Andres, the modifying phrase should modify a NOUN/PRONOUN but in option D, it tries to modify the possessive form of it(the restaurant company’s) - i think this is not correct. Same is the case with option C & E. so C, D & E are ruled out. Hence the correct answer should be between A & B. Between A & B, B doesn't have the correct verb form(its sales increased). In the absense of option A, we may have considered that (its sales increased) indeed is in present perfect with the missing implied word(have). So given the options as it stands now, A is the best choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAMA Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 A is best. B has tense problem.. Although the restaurant company has recently added many new restaurants across the country and its sales have increased dramatically, its sales at restaurants open for more than a year have declined. the restaurant company has recently added many new restaurants across the country and its sales have increased dramatically, its the restaurant company has recently added many new restaurants across the country and its sales increased dramatically, its many new restaurants have recently been opened across the country and its sales increased dramatically, the restaurant company’s having recently added many new restaurants across the country and with its sales increasing dramatically, the restaurant company’s recently adding many new restaurants across the country and having its sales increase dramatically, the restaurant company’s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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