Sentence Correction

Why E is wrong





Why D is wrong

OA to follow soon

ayushiiitm wrote:

Please follow it.

https://www.beatthegmat.com/the-pulitzer-t58312.html

ayushiiitm wrote:


Why D is wrong

OA to follow soon

D is wrong because it should be "have been".

A is correct.

... as they have done for centuries, ...

THEY refers to wine growers.

Regarding Pulitzer problem:

my options in the picture seem different from the options posted by you on the post, that you have directed me to.

In your post 'for' is used in D option....which seems correct usage
In my posted pic, you will notice that D option uses a 'to' and E uses a 'for'

I went for 'e' for parallelism, But OA is D

Regarding Vine Growers problem:

For D option

Vine growers still harvest grapes as have been done for centuries (sounds awkard)

'has' is to be used as it refers to harvest

I dont find any problem with A. I just dont find any problem with D too. Kindly clarify


Regarding posting one problem in one post: Will take care of it in future

1st problem
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The Pulitzer should be compared with The Nobel Prize

A: INCORRECT; Incorrect comparison
B: INCORRECT; Incorrect comparison
C: INCORRECT because author's lifetime's achievement
D: CORRECT; No problem with this option
E: INCORRECT; author will get Nobel Prize for his lifetime of achievement from some body but option E is written in passive and Nobel Prize is awarded by author. It cannot be correct.

2nd problem
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You should be able to distinguish between past tense and present prefect tense.

They were doing for centuries and still doing. present prefect tense is better.

Q2-

In option D , no past tense is used I guess. option A and option D both uses present perfect tense.

why option D is wrong? Will you pl. explain? Or is it that option A is more preferrable than D?

Pl. explain

ansumania wrote:Q2-

In option D , no past tense is used I guess. option A and option D both uses present perfect tense.

why option D is wrong? Will you pl. explain? Or is it that option A is more preferrable than D?

Pl. explain

as has been done for centuries

This is passive construction. HAS is singular. What is the subject and object?

You can get answer answer yourself.

well I guess use of 'has' in option D is perfectly fine as it refers to harvest.

The only thing in D is passive construction as you correctly pointed out. I don't see any error in D though.

Am I missing sth? pl. suggest.

2nd Problem
D
According to the meaning

Harvest - Subject
Wine growers - Object

But we already have better construction in A. Context is clear and things are parallel. So, Why we will think much about E?

ansumania wrote:well I guess use of 'has' in option D is perfectly fine as it refers to harvest.

The only thing in D is passive construction as you correctly pointed out. I don't see any error in D though.

Am I missing sth? pl. suggest.

Here's my 2cents:
We are trying to compare (rather I would say consider) two things.
1. Wine growers harvest grapes
2. as it was done in the past

Wine growers- Sub
harvest - verb
grapes - obj

but if you say (as in D) as has been done
there is nothing specific you are referring.... if it had been "as it has been done" that would have made more sense....

consider A it has "as they have done"

HTH. Thanks.