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- aguirrestom
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Re: Although it claims to delve into political issues,
Rehashing-- I found this SC problem to be awkwardly constructed as well. Did we a come to a consensus that the TV appears to be claiming something (as a human would), and that this question is therefore wrong, or could a construction similar to this actually stand on the GMAT?
- RonPurewal
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Re: Although it claims to delve into political issues,
if you read the news, you'll routinely see "The government claims...", "The company claims...", etc.
these constructions can be understood as a sort of compromise: they're not 100.00000% literal, but a perfectly literal statement would be long, awkward, and unnecessary.
note that this construction is NOT tested in the problem (it's far, far away from the underline)-- and it won't be tested in any future problem, either.
these constructions can be understood as a sort of compromise: they're not 100.00000% literal, but a perfectly literal statement would be long, awkward, and unnecessary.
note that this construction is NOT tested in the problem (it's far, far away from the underline)-- and it won't be tested in any future problem, either.