nehanishika wrote:
In 1933 the rubber, clothing, and shipbuilding industries put into effect a six-hour workday, believing it a seeming permanent accommodation rather than a temporary expedient for what many observers thought was an economy made overproductive by advances in technology.
(A) believing it a seeming permanent accommodation rather than a temporary expedient for what many observers thought was
(B) believing it a seeming permanent accommodation instead of a temporary expedient for what many observers thought was
(C) believing that it was not a temporary expedient but a seeming permanent accommodation to what many observers thought of as a
(D) not as a temporary expedient but as a seemingly permanent accommodation to what many observers thought was
(E) not as a temporary expedient but believing it a seemingly permanent accommodation for what many observers thought
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GMATNinja GMATNinjaCould you guys please provide an analysis of this question. It's meaning analysis because I'm unable to grasp its meaning here.
What I understood: "In 1993, some industries put into effect a 6 hr workday, many people who observed this happening believed that this is a permanent thing and not something temporary and thought that an economy was made overprotective by advances in technology."
I rejected answer choice D because it was missing the word 'believing' from the original sentence. I thought that it must have held some significance in the original sentence as in the observers believed something, so it should not be missed from the correct choice.
Could you please help me understand what does "believing it a seeming permanent accommodation" and "for what many observers thought" or "to what many observers thought" (in choice D) mean in the context of the sentence. From what I gathered in a wrong manner was that the observers thought the six-hour work day was a permanent accomaodation rather than it being a temporary expedient.
And can these two expressions: "rather than" and "instead of" be used interchangably?
I would be really thankful if you could discuss this question here and provide your valuable insights, helping me resolve my doubts.
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