GMAT Question of the Day - Sentence Correction

The expected rise in the price of oil could be a serious impact to industrialized nations and severely diminish the possibility to have an economy free of inflation.

(A) be a serious impact to industrialized nations and severely diminish the possibility to have

(B) seriously impact on industrialized nations and severely impede the possibility to have

(D) have a serious impact on industrialized nations and severely impede the possibility to have

(E) have a serious impact on industrialized nations and severely diminish the possibility of having

Written by yaggarwal on October 10th, 2008 with 15 comments.
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Kayshav
#1. October 13th, 2007, at 9:02 PM.

Zoom it
#2. October 14th, 2007, at 5:47 AM.

yaggarwal
#3. October 14th, 2007, at 1:42 PM.

Can someone provide explain for this problem?

Sandeep
#4. October 14th, 2007, at 4:29 PM.

D and E are close..
Is “possibility of Xing” an idiom?

I would have chose D…

srikar
#5. October 14th, 2007, at 6:42 PM.

E for sure

ricky
#6. October 10th, 2008, at 9:56 AM.

B, c– Out because of ‘Impact on’ does not make any sense.
Left with A, D and e

A– Rise in oil ..be an impact — doesn’t fot properly.

Left with D and E..very close to each other
though in D..IMPEDE does not make sense and hence chose
E as the Answer

Please elt us know the Correct Answer.

crackGMAT
#7. October 10th, 2008, at 11:18 AM.

E is correct!
A, idiomatically wrong… “impact to”
B & C, wrong again…. “could seriously impact on”.
It shd be, “could HAVE serious impact on”
D & E correctly remove the idiomatic error. But D introduces an error by using “impede”. Expectations don’t impede, they just diminish the possibility!

crackGMAT
#8. October 10th, 2008, at 11:20 AM.

deepak
#9. October 10th, 2008, at 12:10 PM.

I will go with option E

Ken
#10. October 10th, 2008, at 12:36 PM.

Clearly its E.

Devika
#11. October 10th, 2008, at 4:31 PM.

Choice E.

Khannjan
#12. October 10th, 2008, at 7:51 PM.

Choice is E….D dusnt make sense…

dd
#13. October 13th, 2008, at 10:40 AM.

kapil
#14. October 13th, 2008, at 11:08 AM.

Dhapore Shankh
#15. October 14th, 2008, at 3:09 AM.

E is the winner.

D - uses impede rather than diminish. Changes the meaning.
A- rise of oil couldn’t be an impact. It causes impact.
B & C- Impact on is a wrong idiom with the adverb seriously.

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