gmat prep

[RonPurewal]

The OG is not wrong.
If you "disagree" with the official correct answer, then, well, it's right and you're wrong.

"In ___ing" does not mean "as a result of ___ing". It means "as part of / during the process of ___ing".

[thanghnvn]

What is wrong with answer choice D?
Is it wrong because it is wordy?
Is "have had as a focus" incorrect?
Can "they" refer to media analyses?

Analyzing campaign expenditures, the media has had as a focus the high costs and low ethics of campaign finance, but they have generally overlooked the cost of actually administering elections, which includes facilities, transport, printing, staffing, and technology.
a.
b. Analyses of campaign expenditures by the media has been focused on
c. In analyzing campaign expenditures, the media have focused on
d. Media analyses of campaign expenditures have had as a focus
e. In their analysis of campaign expenditures, the media has been focusing on.

OA C

your question is good to me. I change the thought of sc recently. we need basic grammar to do sc but the focus of sc is meaning. and gmat never test us hard grammar point. this thinking is simple but fatally important for studying sc.

this question shows that all of us have enough grammar rules to do this question but not all of us get it right. in this problem, there is no grammar point any more, and the game is meaning analysis.

in choice A, "doing" before a main clause show a method or at leat this choice created ambiguity
choice D, meaning change, and we have to dicide which is subject. nothing wrong with the subject of origianl so, keep it. D is wrong.

[swadha.r.21]

Hello all,

if we replace the "has" with "have" in option E,
In their analysis of campaign expenditures, the media have been focusing on, ......, would it be correct?
the media have been focusing X but they have generally overlooked Y?

[sahilk47]

Hello all,

if we replace the "has" with "have" in option E,
In their analysis of campaign expenditures, the media have been focusing on, ......, would it be correct?
the media have been focusing X but they have generally overlooked Y?

Hi

Even in that case, option E would be worse than option C on the grounds of parallelism. Option C would read: In analyzing campaign expenditures, the media have focused on the high costs and low ethics of campaign finance, but they have generally overlooked the cost of actually administering elections, which includes facilities, transport, printing, staffing, and technology. (We can ignore Generally as it is adverb)

Thanks

[swadha.r.21]

Hello all,

if we replace the "has" with "have" in option E,
In their analysis of campaign expenditures, the media have been focusing on, ......, would it be correct?
the media have been focusing X but they have generally overlooked Y?

Hi

Even in that case, option E would be worse than option C on the grounds of parallelism. Option C would read: In analyzing campaign expenditures, the media have focused on the high costs and low ethics of campaign finance, but they have generally overlooked the cost of actually administering elections, which includes facilities, transport, printing, staffing, and technology. (We can ignore Generally as it is adverb)

Thanks

Hi,
Thank you for your response.

Although, my question was whether that construction is alright on its own?
the media have been focusing X but they have generally overlooked Y:
this just means that the media have been focusing on X (still an ongoing process) and while they are focusing on X, they have overlooked Y.

Thank you.

[RonPurewal]

that doesn't really make sense, though.
if 'have overlooked' is something that only occurred in a smaller timeframe, within the timeframe of 'have been focusing', then... what have they been doing for the rest of that time? it seems you're suggesting that, for some part of that time, they have not overlooked 'Y'—in which case the sentence would deceive the reader.

in any case, there's way, way too much thinking going on here.
in context, it should be absolutely clear that the forms of 'focus' and 'overlook' must be parallel, since both are general observations about the campaign.
not even for a moment should you entertain any choice in which these items are non-parallel. why waste the time?

[AliasgharA585]

that doesn't really make sense, though.
if 'have overlooked' is something that only occurred in a smaller timeframe, within the timeframe of 'have been focusing', then... what have they been doing for the rest of that time? it seems you're suggesting that, for some part of that time, they have not overlooked 'Y'—in which case the sentence would deceive the reader.

in any case, there's way, way too much thinking going on here.
in context, it should be absolutely clear that the forms of 'focus' and 'overlook' must be parallel, since both are general observations about the campaign.
not even for a moment should you entertain any choice in which these items are non-parallel. why waste the time?

Hmmm.. Thanks a lot Ron!

Regards,
Swadha.

[tim]

[RonPurewal]

that doesn't really make sense, though.
if 'have overlooked' is something that only occurred in a smaller timeframe, within the timeframe of 'have been focusing', then... what have they been doing for the rest of that time? it seems you're suggesting that, for some part of that time, they have not overlooked 'Y'—in which case the sentence would deceive the reader.

in any case, there's way, way too much thinking going on here.
in context, it should be absolutely clear that the forms of 'focus' and 'overlook' must be parallel, since both are general observations about the campaign.
not even for a moment should you entertain any choice in which these items are non-parallel. why waste the time?

Hmmm.. Thanks a lot Ron!

Regards,
Swadha.

you're welcome.