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Because of the flood of immigrants between 1905 and 1910, so [#permalink] New post   15 Feb 2005, 14:49
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17. Because of the flood of immigrants between 1905 and 1910, so overcrowded were the school buildings on the lower East Side beyond their capacity that the city converted a hospital ship into a school where ten thousand children received instruction.
(A) so overcrowded were the school buildings on the lower East Side beyond their capacity
(B) so overcrowded beyond their capacity were the school buildings on the lower East Side
(C) school buildings on the lower East Side were overcrowded so far beyond their capacity
(D) school buildings on the lower East Side were so overcrowded
(E) lower East Side school buildings were so overcrowded



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Re: Because of the flood of immigrants between 1905 and 1910, so [#permalink] New post   15 Feb 2005, 15:06
(C)
Because it unlike D utilizes overcrowded with the "beyond its capacity" in the best manner. D condenses the sentence...with D the sentence still makes sense but i dont think it is right with respect to the context of what the question requires
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Re: Because of the flood of immigrants between 1905 and 1910, so [#permalink] New post   15 Feb 2005, 18:14
17. Because of the flood of immigrants between 1905 and 1910, so overcrowded were the school buildings on the lower East Side beyond their capacity that the city converted a hospital ship into a school where ten thousand children received instruction.
(A) so overcrowded were the school buildings on the lower East Side beyond their capacity

-- redundant overcorowded and beyond their capacity

(B) so overcrowded beyond their capacity were the school buildings on the lower East Side

-- same as A.
(C) school buildings on the lower East Side were overcrowded so far beyond their capacity

-- same as A.
(D) school buildings on the lower East Side were so overcrowded
-- separation between the subject and the verb with an intervening prepositional phrase.
(E) lower East Side school buildings were so overcrowded
-- concise.
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Re: Because of the flood of immigrants between 1905 and 1910, so [#permalink] New post   15 Feb 2005, 22:17
Yes, it is clearly between D and E.

Is there are any systematic way to eliminate E over D?.
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Re: Because of the flood of immigrants between 1905 and 1910, so [#permalink] New post   15 Feb 2005, 22:22
(D) for me. (C) 'so far' is redundant. (E) is not clear with the lower east side school buildings. It seems to suggest the eastern side of the school building is overcrowded, while the northern or eastern or western side are all free.
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Re: Because of the flood of immigrants between 1905 and 1910, so [#permalink] New post   15 Feb 2005, 22:31
Cant the same reasoning, east/west/north/south, be advanced for D as well?. Is it the definite article 'the' tin 'on the ease side' that breaks the tie?
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Re: Because of the flood of immigrants between 1905 and 1910, so [#permalink] New post   15 Feb 2005, 22:32
No. (D) clearly states schools on the east side.. so we're sure it's referring to school buildings situated in the east
(E) doesn't have that.
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Re: Because of the flood of immigrants between 1905 and 1910, so [#permalink] New post   16 Feb 2005, 09:31
OA is "D".
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Re: Because of the flood of immigrants between 1905 and 1910, so [#permalink] New post   16 Feb 2005, 20:14
thinking a little bit about this SC, it is clear that E introduced 2 nouns back to back -- 'east side' and 'school buildings' with out connecting them properly. D fixes this problem by saying 'School Buildings on the East Side' with prepositional phrase. So D is better than E.
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Re: Because of the flood of immigrants between 1905 and 1910, so [#permalink] New post   16 Feb 2005, 23:39
I agree with D. E changes the meaning of the sentence.

PS: it is better to stay with the style of the sentence mentioned in the question



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