GMAT Question of the Day - Sentence Correction

hari
#1. October 28th, 2007, at 11:27 PM.

E

A.c.
#2. October 29th, 2007, at 1:36 PM.

I’ll go with E

Present Perfect Tense

Manju
#3. October 29th, 2007, at 3:35 PM.

E

nektar
#4. October 29th, 2007, at 7:02 PM.

a

abhinav
#5. October 29th, 2007, at 11:15 PM.

i will also go with e but i am not sure..just that other options to akward.can any one please help me with the explanation!!

Gethcy
#6. October 30th, 2007, at 12:06 AM.

A

there’s nothin wrong wit t tense there r two actions one is t guessing n t other is he goes wrong. so t ‘have been’ usage is right.

swati
#7. October 31st, 2007, at 9:26 AM.

E

kv
#8. October 31st, 2007, at 2:35 PM.

e

raj
#9. November 5th, 2007, at 9:21 AM.

E PARALLALISM+TENSE

emleung
#10. November 20th, 2007, at 5:12 AM.

A, tense is correct and it doesn’t use 4 “would”s like in answer e.

WD
#11. October 8th, 2008, at 12:57 AM.

A

KK
#12. October 8th, 2008, at 8:37 AM.

A

Ken
#13. October 8th, 2008, at 8:54 AM.

E. A is out: Historian and Have, does not go together.

Ramz
#14. October 8th, 2008, at 11:25 AM.

E

Deepak
#15. October 8th, 2008, at 12:03 PM.

I will go with option E

Ken
#16. October 8th, 2008, at 12:22 PM.

Is there also a pronoun error in E, i.e. it would

mthak
#17. October 8th, 2008, at 12:53 PM.

e

Amit
#18. October 8th, 2008, at 2:13 PM.

A

E is not posiible as “would have” agrees with “guessed” only not with “guess”.

Any other eplanation?

DHARM
#19. October 8th, 2008, at 5:52 PM.

option A

ramz
#20. October 9th, 2008, at 12:36 PM.

Amit,

check ques again….it’s “would guess” for opption “E” and not “Would Have Guessed”..

MAdhusudhan
#21. October 9th, 2008, at 1:43 PM.

I go with option E..

meena
#22. October 9th, 2008, at 9:04 PM.

A - Correct
B wrong sentence structure
C would be - needs to be would have been
D guess cant go with have
E guess cant go with have

avion
#23. October 10th, 2008, at 12:16 AM.

Hi GMAT team, do you have the answer?
Thanks

ricky
#24. October 10th, 2008, at 10:14 AM.

Another one for A

kapil
#25. October 10th, 2008, at 10:47 AM.

A

crackGMAT
#26. October 10th, 2008, at 11:40 AM.

E…
A can’t be…
firstly, u cnt guess the nation itself… u can guess ‘it’ to be that specific nation.
secondly, “would have guessed” means they have already done it… where as, we say they are “attempting”…. means action is not cmplete till yet.
thirdly, (MOST GROSS MISTAKE) considering parallelism, the statement, “probably would have guessed Bismarck’s Prussia and been quite wrong” becomes…. “would have guessed Bismarck’s Prussia and would been quite wrong”, which looks so wrong!
fourthly, “probably would have guessed”….!!! too much of ambiguity!!