SC: Stock market bounced back

[spandey1982]

While the stock market was bouncing back from its 2002 low, U.S. families are still reeling from the recent recession; between 2001 to 2004, typical household savings plummeted nearly 25% and the median household debt rose by a third.
A) was bouncing back from its 2002 low, U.S. families are still reeling from the recent recession; between
B) bounced back from its 2002 low, U.S. families are still reeling from the recent recession, from
C) has bounced back from its 2002 low, U.S. families are still reeling from the recent recession; between
D) has bounced back from its 2002 low, U.S. families are still reeling from the recent recession; from
E) bounced back from its 2002 low, U.S. families are still reeling from the recent recession; from

I was able to quickly narrow down the options between D and E, but then got confused. I read the official explanation. It says, if one sentence is in past then next sentence should also be in past. I undertand that that is totally based on the context. However, in this case, at least to me, even E looked ok - in fact better :). Please explain the tense switch.

[spandey1982]

Anybody there ???

[anoo.anand]

What is the OA ??

to me it should be 'D'

> has is needed...to show the comparison....WHILE.... etc etc...

From ...to ... is needed... idiom.

[gorav.s]

It is clearly D = Answer.

You need to sense the main tense of the sentence.
Second part says - "US families are still reeling" - present tense .

hence The whole sentence shall be in present tense -- " has bounced back....."
in this case present prefect.

Just think about E-- stock market bounced .....= past, ---> then families are stil reeling .... => present tense , does not make sence and meaning clear. = wrong.

[RonPurewal]

It is clearly D = Answer.

You need to sense the main tense of the sentence.
Second part says - "US families are still reeling" - present tense .

hence The whole sentence shall be in present tense -- " has bounced back....."
in this case present prefect.

Just think about E-- stock market bounced .....= past, ---> then families are stil reeling .... => present tense , does not make sence and meaning clear. = wrong.

this is a great explanation.

[k.tishutina]

I think main clue here is the word "while", this word should indicate that to actions are happening in the same time period.

I am doing X, while she is doing Y.

I was doing X, while she was doing Y.

So, "bounced" cant be right here, since families ARE..."

Got this Q wrong, but now see the reason why D is the BEST here.

[jnelson0612]

Nice observation k.tishutina.

[hannes.rainer]

I think there is one more approach to his problem, other than using "while":
1.) ..from its 2002 low.. so this must be "has bounced back" as it states a period of time since 2002 --> C or D
2.) between 2001 to 2004 is wrong (betweend x AND y), hence it's D

Is assumption 1.) correct?

BG

[jnelson0612]

hannes, I can go with that! :-) Nice when we are all in agreement.

[rte.sushil]

In this particular question, While the stock market ....., what if the sentence is :-
While the stock market bounces back from its 2002 low, U.S. families are still reeling from the recent recession; from 2001 to 2004, typical household savings plummeted nearly 25% and the median household debt rose by a third.

Here i have replaced in option D 'has bounced' with 'bounces', so is this sentence also fine?


2.) Because of 'while', doesn't the sentence makes us to think that that occurrence of events should be in parallel , (yes I agree that sentence should be in the correct verb forms first but assume that sentences are in right form and we have to chose between while & although) , So the sentence would have been much better if there was 'although, though' etc. in place of while?

[tim]

your change makes it sound like the stock market is still in the process of bouncing back, but that doesn't make it technically wrong..

there is nothing non-parallel about the sentence as written, and a change from "while" to "(al)though" would not make any difference in terms of parallelism. do you have any reason to believe otherwise?

[rte.sushil]

there is nothing non-parallel about the sentence as written, and a change from "while" to "(al)though" would not make any difference in terms of parallelism. do you have any reason to believe otherwise?

Oh i didn't mean parallelism in the sentence. i meant parallel actions.
e.g. She was looking at him while he was working
so here while refers that both actions are taking place simulataneoulsy.

so in the option, if we change to although , it would have been better than using while ? that was my point.
or while and although can be used interchangeably?

[tim]

irrelevant. parallelism is about similar structures and a logical comparison. you should not try to make things "more parallel" than they need to be..

[ShobhitK282]

Hi experts,

I have following queries on this one-:

1) When we say that in "While X, Y", X and Y should be in same tense. Does it hold true for other contrast words like although, though etc?

2) I still don't get why is B wrong? I thought it meant that stock markets bounced back from the recession but the families are still reeling. Bouncing back of stock market is over in past, but other action still continues. Please help me solve this.

3) The explanation for this question says - "the present perfect "has bounced back," which indicates an action began in the past and has continued into the present". I got confused during the CAT because I always thought present perfect implies that the even has finished in past but its effect is still felt. Am I wrong? If yes then what exactly is present perfect?

[tim]

1) Where did you hear that X and Y have to be in the same tense? This is most definitely NOT true at all.

2) The mistake in B is that there is a comma near the end of the underlined section that joins two independent clauses. This should be a semicolon, as we see in D.

3) Present perfect started in the past and is either still going on or its effects are still going on. Please work on getting a better handle on what present perfect means. The best way to do this is by learning a few concrete examples of how present perfect is used correctly. I suspect the problem here is that you are relying too much on abstract definitions and not paying enough attention to how this tense is used in actual examples.