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by mandeepak » Mon Nov 05, 2007 5:11 pm
The nation's three military academies have seen a

dramatic rise in applications, one fueled by a resur-

gence of patriotism, increasing tuition costs at

private colleges, and improved recruiting by the

academies.




(A) one fueled by a resurgence of patriotism,

increasing tuition costs at private colleges,

and improved recruiting by the academies.

(B) one fueled by a resurgence of patriotism, tuition

costs that have increased at private colleges,

and academies improving their recruiting

(C) one fueled by a resurgence of patriotism,

private colleges that increased their tuition

costs, and recruiting improvements by the

academies

(D) fueled by a resurgence of patriotism, tuition

costs increasing at private colleges, and

academies improving their recruiting

(E) fueled by a resurgence of patriotism, increasing

tuition costs at private colleges, and

academies improving their recruiting

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by ranji » Mon Nov 05, 2007 6:40 pm
A) a resurgence, increasing tuition costs and improved recruiting all parallel. 'one' referring to 'rise in applications' . correct
B, C , D and E do not follow parallelism

so A

whats the OA?
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by ranji » Mon Nov 05, 2007 6:43 pm
experts..please do correct me in case of any wrong analysis! I dont want to go down the wrong path:-)
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by camitava » Mon Nov 05, 2007 8:53 pm
According to me, this is a case of parallel acttions and I will prefer to go for E. What do u think guys?
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by Danielle » Tue Nov 06, 2007 10:53 am
The answer is A, but this one is tricky if you're looking for parallelism, because none of the answers seem to be completely parallel. A is actually the parallel answer. In order to get this, you have to recognize that in the phrase 'increasing tuition costs', "increasing" is not a present tense verb, but a adjective describing costs.
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by yxhh2008 » Wed Nov 07, 2007 4:32 am
Danielle wrote:The answer is A, but this one is tricky if you're looking for parallelism, because none of the answers seem to be completely parallel. A is actually the parallel answer. In order to get this, you have to recognize that in the phrase 'increasing tuition costs', "increasing" is not a present tense verb, but a adjective describing costs.
I agree! here are three paralled Noun phrases not three paralled verbs

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by camitava » Wed Nov 07, 2007 4:39 am
Thank u Danielle. It helps me to find out where I was wrong. Thanks once again.
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by Danielle » Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:31 am
No problem!
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