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Gmat prep - Modifier and parallel Post Mon May 14, 2012 11:29 pm
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    For the farmer who takes care to keep them cool, providing them with high energy feed and milking them regularly,Holstein cows are producing an average of 2275 gallons of milk each year.

    A. providing them with high energy feed and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing
    B. providing them with high energy feed ,and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces
    C. provided with high energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing
    D. provided with high energy feed ,and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces
    E. provided with high energy feed ,and milked regularly, Holstein cows will produce

    OA : E
    Even after reading several posts I am confused.

    Please give your explnations

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    Post Tue May 15, 2012 1:45 am
    For the farmer who takes care to keep them cool, providing them with high energy feed and milking them regularly,Holstein cows are producing an average of 2275 gallons of milk each year.

    A. providing them with high energy feed and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing
    B. providing them with high energy feed ,and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces
    C. provided with high energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing
    D. provided with high energy feed ,and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces
    E. provided with high energy feed ,and milked regularly, Holstein cows will produce

    IMO: E

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    Post Tue May 15, 2012 2:14 am
    I can understand 90% of option E . since its a condition they are using WILL. but the first part of provided + milked totatlly confuses me . Experts please explain.

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    Post Tue May 15, 2012 3:33 am
    I think this one is not well written because it violates parallelism.

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    Post Tue May 15, 2012 8:15 am
    E is parallel; "provided" and "milked" are participles (verb forms used as adjectives).

    The farmer keeps them cool...provided...and milked. Three adjectives.

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    Post Tue May 15, 2012 9:00 am
    Thanks Bill, this will help.

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    Post Tue May 15, 2012 9:17 am
    agarwalva wrote:
    Gprep #2

    For the farmer who takes care to keep them cool, providing them with high energy feed and milking them regularly,Holstein cows are producing an average of 2275 gallons of milk each year.

    A. providing them with high energy feed and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing
    B. providing them with high energy feed ,and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces
    C. provided with high energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing
    D. provided with high energy feed ,and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces
    E. provided with high energy feed ,and milked regularly, Holstein cows will produce

    OA : E
    Even after reading several posts I am confused.

    Please give your explnations
    This is a simple if you can find the clues in the non-underlined portion "them" --> cows (plural subject) --> produce (plural verb)

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    Post Thu May 24, 2012 10:41 am
    GmatKiss wrote:
    For the farmer who takes care to keep them cool, providing them with high energy feed and milking them regularly,Holstein cows are producing an average of 2275 gallons of milk each year.

    A. providing them with high energy feed and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing
    B. providing them with high energy feed ,and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces
    C. provided with high energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing
    D. provided with high energy feed ,and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces
    E. provided with high energy feed ,and milked regularly, Holstein cows will produce

    IMO: E
    what the problem with .. milking them.. whats the problem with A
    Please can you elaborate

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    Post Thu May 24, 2012 10:46 am
    Bill@VeritasPrep wrote:
    E is parallel; "provided" and "milked" are participles (verb forms used as adjectives).


    The farmer keeps them cool...provided...and milked. Three adjectives.
    Bill are you trying to say


    For the farmer who takes care to keep them cool,
    For the farmer who takes care to keep them provided with high energy feed
    For the farmer who takes care to keep them milked regularly,

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    Post Thu May 24, 2012 8:42 pm
    Thanks Bill i understood , got the sentence framing all wrong in my head.

    E sound fine its like

    For farmers who takes care to keep them cool ,(provided with high-energy food , milked regularly , hoiusten cows will produce 2275 gallons of milk per year).

    understanding the first part took time.

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