ShubhiNigam29 wrote:
Carcass wrote:
This is a super tough question to grasp. Just only the very first part of the sentence, before the comma, put you out of balance And with a very good reason.
Actually, the meaning is this: even though the needs of the author of the book of being concise, the necessity of being short and get down to the business in his book, the author himself could spend some few page more on this important economic concept (whatever the concept is).
Aski for further assistance if you do need.
Regards
Can you please help me understand it better? I tried several times, but with no luck. Can you please tell me the clue from which you got 'conciseness' for the blank?
Notwithstanding means "in spite of." So you could say the sentence reads something like "Even though we normally want ______, it would have been nice if the author had talked more about this one topic I find important." Therefore, the blank must be something in opposition of "talking/writing more about a topic." While this doesn't ONLY indicate needing something in opposition to "making longer," it is a possible (and in this case the correct) way to look at it. Instead of being a clear cut 100% answer, we need to then go back and decide which of the answer groups make sense in the recreated sentence.
There are 3 different word sets here that all fit as pairs: clarity/cogent, brevity/economy, and comprehensive/thorough. Using simpler meaning for each we can fill in the blank in the recreated sentence with: "even though we normally want A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING..." "even though we normally want CONCISE WRITING..." and "even though we normally want A COMPLETELY DETAILED..." So now we ask which of those makes the most sense as an opposite of "talking more on a subject." Completely detailed is NOT an opposite, it is the same thing, so this is incorrect. CLEAR UNDERSTANDING is also not correct. The only one that fits is CONCISE WRITING. Since brevity/economy were the pair that meant "concise writing," they are the answer.
While the amount i just wrote explaining it might seem like a lot, the actual process of thinking this problem through should havve taken maybe 15-20 seconds at most as long as you know all the words.