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Modern critics are amused by early scholars' categorizing Tacitus's Germania as an ethnographic treatise.
(A) scholars' categorizing Tacitus's Germania as
(B) scholars' categorizing Tacitus's Germania as if
(C) scholars, categorizing of Tacitus's Germania as
(D) scholars who categorize Tacitus's Germania as
(E) scholars who categorize Tacitus's Germania if
why not D? |
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| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 2:06 pm Post subject: |
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| IMO because they are earlier scholars...so we need categorised...(past tense) |
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| Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2009 2:16 pm Post subject: |
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IMO A
The answer comes on by itself if you ask one question:
What are the modern critics amused by?
Answer: Categorizing..
You can straight away take out C, D and E.. as it suggests that the modern critics are amused by early scholars (so untrue).. and adds on to say that early scholars did blah blah.. As we can see from the answer to the above question.. modern critics are amused only the the categorizing of something that the early scholars did.. not with the scholars itself..
Between A and B.. in B use of if is incorrect.. A correctly describes the categorizing.
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Hi dumb.doofus,
What I have read till now is that "as" is used to introduce clauses....
but here as is used to introduce noun...
is categorise X as
is some idiom in GMAT similar to the case of "used as"
if not then can we use as for introducing nouns too ? |
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| goelmohit2002 wrote: | Hi dumb.doofus,
What I have read till now is that "as" is used to introduce clauses....
but here as is used to introduce noun...
is categorise X as
is some idiom in GMAT similar to the case of "used as"
if not then can we use as for introducing nouns too ? |
You are right.. We should use "as" before a clause, adverb or prepositional phrase.
As is generally used as a conjunction of manner while sometimes serving as a preposition with the meaning of "in the capacity of".
In the above sentence, its playing the role of a preposition..
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| Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:35 am Post subject: |
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| dumb.doofus wrote: |
You are right.. We should use "as" before a clause, adverb or prepositional phrase.
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Thanks dumb.doofus.
Can you please give one small example each of as + adverb, as + prepositional phrase.
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| goelmohit2002 wrote: | | dumb.doofus wrote: |
You are right.. We should use "as" before a clause, adverb or prepositional phrase.
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Thanks dumb.doofus.
Can you please give one small example each of as + adverb, as + prepositional phrase.
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| Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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A is still unclear to me..Why we use V+ing (Categorizing)..
If it were "scholars' categorization of..", wouldn't it be better? |
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| haptas wrote: | A is still unclear to me..Why we use V+ing (Categorizing)..
If it were "scholars' categorization of..", wouldn't it be better? |
Probably yes....but we do not have any such choice here  |
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| oA is A. |
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| dumb.doofus wrote: | | goelmohit2002 wrote: | Hi dumb.doofus,
What I have read till now is that "as" is used to introduce clauses....
but here as is used to introduce noun...
is categorise X as
is some idiom in GMAT similar to the case of "used as"
if not then can we use as for introducing nouns too ? |
You are right.. We should use "as" before a clause, adverb or prepositional phrase.
As is generally used as a conjunction of manner while sometimes serving as a preposition with the meaning of "in the capacity of".
In the above sentence, its playing the role of a preposition.. |
Thanks a ton dumbdoofus...
Absolutely great explanation
I chose A. But then when I saw D, I couldnt resist choosing D.
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| dumb.doofus wrote: | IMO A
The answer comes on by itself if you ask one question:
What are the modern critics amused by?
Answer: Categorizing..
You can straight away take out C, D and E.. as it suggests that the modern critics are amused by early scholars (so untrue).. and adds on to say that early scholars did blah blah.. As we can see from the answer to the above question.. modern critics are amused only the the categorizing of something that the early scholars did.. not with the scholars itself..
Between A and B.. in B use of if is incorrect.. A correctly describes the categorizing. |
Thanks DD...can't we kick out C and D because of incorrect use of categorise(present tense) ? shouldn't it be categorised(past tense) ? |
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