The vice-president of engineering argued that the biggest advantage of the proposed alloy for the designs of the new fuselage would lay in not its unusually light weight but in its superior resistance to the corrosive influence of the elements.
(A) would lay in not its
(B) would lie not in its
(C) will lie in not their
(D) will lay not in its
(E) would lay in not their
This practice sentence features pronoun issues, sequence of tenses issues, and a tricky Diction distinction, lie/lay. Diction is one of the eight main areas tested on the GMAT SC.
For more on Diction, as well as the explanation of this particular sentence, see:
http://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/diction-on ... orrection/
For more on sequence of tenses, see:
http://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/sequence-o ... orrection/
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(A) would lay in not its
(B) would lie not in its
(C) will lie in not their
(D) will lay not in its
(E) would lay in not their
This practice sentence features pronoun issues, sequence of tenses issues, and a tricky Diction distinction, lie/lay. Diction is one of the eight main areas tested on the GMAT SC.
For more on Diction, as well as the explanation of this particular sentence, see:
http://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/diction-on ... orrection/
For more on sequence of tenses, see:
http://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/sequence-o ... orrection/
Mike
