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SC: Trans World Entertainment

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SC: Trans World Entertainment [#permalink] New post   05 Aug 2006, 09:08
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Re: SC: Trans World Entertainment [#permalink] New post   05 Aug 2006, 09:48
i chose E, but OA is C. Can anyone explain?
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Re: SC: Trans World Entertainment [#permalink] New post   05 Aug 2006, 10:00
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It's a clear C.

in E, "announced having poor sales, such that upto one fourth of its stores will be closed"... is awkward and incorrect. It is trying to use "such that" to probably denote the extent to which the sales were poor..but it is incorrect
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Re: SC: Trans World Entertainment [#permalink] New post   05 Aug 2006, 10:00
aryanb wrote:
C is the best.


The announcement is basically that " the corporation ( it ) will be closing "its" stores due to poor sales.

e is wrong because the announcement is not the "corporation having poor sales". Additionally the second part of sentence ie "upto.. " changes the meaning of the original sentence.

a is wrong because "they will be close" is not clear in referring to the stores.

b. the closing of stores didn't account to the poor sales. hence wrong

d. unidiomatic. annouced to be closing ... is wrong.

c is concise in its presentation of the intended meaning.

QED.
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Re: SC: Trans World Entertainment [#permalink] New post   05 Aug 2006, 10:04
I spent 20 second on this Q and get the wrong answer
Will be more cautious next time.
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Re: SC: Trans World Entertainment [#permalink] New post   05 Aug 2006, 15:13
Straight C

A. "they"---who???
B. This is changing the meaning. That means company is closing one fourth of only those stores that accounted for poor sales.
D. "announced to be closing" :roll: :roll:
E. Just few days back I read usage notes of "such that". This is not the proper case for "such that". If author had used "so that" then it would have been correct. Read this https://dictionary.reference.com/browse/such
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Re: SC: Trans World Entertainment [#permalink] New post   17 Aug 2006, 18:30
ps_dahiya wrote:
Straight C

A. "they"---who???
B. This is changing the meaning. That means company is closing one fourth of only those stores that accounted for poor sales.
D. "announced to be closing" :roll: :roll:
E. Just few days back I read usage notes of "such that". This is not the proper case for "such that". If author had used "so that" then it would have been correct. Read this https://dictionary.reference.com/browse/such


Dahiya: I picked C but I still have a question

In choice C "announced" and "was closing" both are simple past. How do we justify that the closing is done after the announcement
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Re: SC: Trans World Entertainment [#permalink] New post   18 Aug 2006, 00:29
Will go with C.

Short clear and concise.

D/E are clearly out.

A - ambiguous they
B- changes the meaning.



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