Timeline for A controversial GRE verbal reasoning question
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| Jul 3, 2017 at 21:27 | vote | accept | No One | ||
| Jun 21, 2017 at 15:04 | comment | added | supercat | @hunter: No combination of choices will yield a well-written sentence. Why would the fact that it is generally difficult to suffer bored directors cause the actors to be disappointed in this particular director? I think A. Simmons nails it when he suggests that the only sensible causal relation between the general and specific would be that because bored directors are generally insufferable, the actors wanted to avoid having their (particular) director enter that category. | |
| Jun 21, 2017 at 7:20 | comment | added | Tim | 'Visibly bored' - = uninterested or disinterested? With thousands of better choices for questions in a test such as this, it makes me wonder why questions such as this ever make it onto the paper. Someone trying to be really clever, or someone without a proper grasp of their job? Either way, tenuous at best! | |
| Jun 21, 2017 at 5:37 | comment | added | can-ned_food | For what dialect or vocabulary is this question meant to gauge your fluency, exactly? Anyway, none of the first three choices seems consistent with the second sentence. ‘unhappy with’, ‘uncomfortable with’, ‘berated by’, or even ‘at odds with’ work better. | |
| Jun 21, 2017 at 4:02 | comment | added | Mars | @hunter. It most certainly is one of them. | |
| S Jun 20, 2017 at 11:30 | answer | added | A Simmons | timeline score: 5 | |
| S Jun 20, 2017 at 11:30 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| S Jun 20, 2017 at 4:22 | history | suggested | Andrew T. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 19, 2017 at 23:24 | comment | added | hunter | To be clear -- there are bad and ambiguous test questions out there, but this isn't one of them: the answer to this question is certainly AF and the unofficial guide that suggests other answers is simply wrong. | |
| Jun 19, 2017 at 21:57 | answer | added | RCM | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 19, 2017 at 21:55 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/876921401856462849 | ||
| Jun 19, 2017 at 20:02 | answer | added | J.R.♦ | timeline score: 12 | |
| Jun 19, 2017 at 19:04 | answer | added | LawrenceC | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 19, 2017 at 18:44 | comment | added | Ben Kovitz | Asking how native speakers approach the problem is a great question! Sometimes this can provide some good insight to help learn English—by learning how the natives see it. | |
| Jun 19, 2017 at 18:31 | answer | added | TimR | timeline score: 34 | |
| Jun 19, 2017 at 18:26 | history | edited | P. E. Dant Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 19, 2017 at 18:21 | answer | added | Don | timeline score: -3 | |
| Jun 19, 2017 at 18:17 | answer | added | Peter | timeline score: 22 | |
| Jun 19, 2017 at 18:14 | history | edited | No One | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 19, 2017 at 18:07 | comment | added | No One | Sorry, but actually I have trouble to explain it in English~~~~I am afraid I need to know some advanced English about grammar and rhetoric to fully express my opinion about this. But let me try... Actually some random places on the Internet. I don't know whether this is really a question in the real test or a question made up by people who are not in ETS. | |
| Jun 19, 2017 at 18:03 | comment | added | J.R.♦ | I agree with @Cardinal – this is an interesting question, but it would be better if you explained why you think it's "controversial." Also, what do you mean by "semi-official answers"? Are those answer choices in the book, and only one of them is correct? Or are those three answers that people are regarding as ALL correct? | |
| Jun 19, 2017 at 17:53 | comment | added | Cardinal | It's a good question, but I think you should add your opinion too. | |
| Jun 19, 2017 at 17:41 | history | asked | No One | CC BY-SA 3.0 |