challenger63 wrote:Even though he does not like crowds, John still likes New York City more than Sybil.

A) John still likes New York City more than Sybil
B) New York City is still liked more than Sybil by John
C) John is still liking New York City more than is Sybil
D) John still likes New York City more than Sybil does
E) New York City is still more liked by John than Sybil

OA after discussion
Source: 800Score

This is based on misplaced modifiers.

B and E eliminated at first instance only.
Now B is saying he liked New York but may\may not be liking it now.
D is saying John like New york city more than Sybil(city) like New York city. Totally weird.

So here is our winner A.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

Answers B and E can be eliminated because they suggest that it is New York that does not like crowds. We are left with A, C and D.
A - wrong parallelism, a clause is compared with a phrase
C - grammatically incorrect, wrong use of the progressive verb form
D - correct, this answer does not include the original mistake and is correct in terms of parallelism

Kasia@EconomistGMAT wrote:Answers B and E can be eliminated because they suggest that it is New York that does not like crowds. We are left with A, C and D.
A - wrong parallelism, a clause is compared with a phrase
C - grammatically incorrect, wrong use of the progressive verb form
D - correct, this answer does not include the original mistake and is correct in terms of parallelism

I guess this is not very good question, because GMAT is quite clear in its language and tries to be equal to both native and nonnative speakers. For me (i'm not native), Sybil was not clear whether it is a name of the other city or a name of a person (apparently female). If it is a city than i think original answer works well, but if it is a name (which i found out after googling) then D should be the answer, but still on the meaning side is not good. First clause tells us that despite John does not like crowdy places, he prefers living in NYC than in less crowdy X city. I thought this logic would have more sense.

Please correct me if i am wrong.

ziko wrote:

Kasia@EconomistGMAT wrote:Answers B and E can be eliminated because they suggest that it is New York that does not like crowds. We are left with A, C and D.
A - wrong parallelism, a clause is compared with a phrase
C - grammatically incorrect, wrong use of the progressive verb form
D - correct, this answer does not include the original mistake and is correct in terms of parallelism

I guess this is not very good question, because GMAT is quite clear in its language and tries to be equal to both native and nonnative speakers. For me (i'm not native), Sybil was not clear whether it is a name of the other city or a name of a person (apparently female). If it is a city than i think original answer works well, but if it is a name (which i found out after googling) then D should be the answer, but still on the meaning side is not good. First clause tells us that despite John does not like crowdy places, he prefers living in NYC than in less crowdy X city. I thought this logic would have more sense.

Please correct me if i am wrong.

I choose A because I thought sybil is a city. lol