Advantage and significant edge are redundant.
AC out.

E looks awkward to me.
But I am unable to choose between B and D

https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/com ... t7284.html

Check the link, this does not seem like a correct problem.

"Introducing" is action noun.

"Introducing a new comp" is simple gerund phrase.

Only Complex gerund phrase can be parallel to action nouns.

So simple gerund phrase is not correct.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

I am still not clear between B and D . Is there any other explaination for why B is wrong and D is right ?

selango wrote:"Introducing" is action noun.

"Introducing a new comp" is simple gerund phrase.

Only Complex gerund phrase can be parallel to action nouns.

So simple gerund phrase is not correct.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Anand, Very complex to understand..
Can you please explain in simple terms

kvcpk wrote:

selango wrote:"Introducing" is action noun.

"Introducing a new comp" is simple gerund phrase.

Only Complex gerund phrase can be parallel to action nouns.

So simple gerund phrase is not correct.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Anand, Very complex to understand..
Can you please explain in simple terms

Praveen buddy..Even I am not sure if this is correct

In Manhattan SC it's specified that only complex gerund phrase is parallel with action nouns.

Here Introducing is action noun and "Introducing a new comp" is simple gerund phrase.

So they are not parallel.

Experts can you please help me in this?

Received a PM. Honestly, SC is not my strength - I still need to study for this one for sure! That's why the explanation below might not be as good as you'd need.

I say A and C are out because the construction "a year advantage" just does not make sense to me from a semantic point of view. What does "a year advantage" mean anyway? I guess it's supposed to be that you have launched the thing a year earlier than your competitors, but I feel that having "year" be the determinant of "advantage" just doesn't click - I'd say a phrase like "technical advantage" or something like that (with an adjective instead of a noun) is much more digestible.

E is a bit too convoluted - I don't feel it's particularly wrong grammatically, but you have two gerunds one after the other: "being" and "introducing", which I think it too wordy.

Now, I am also stuck between B and D. As far as I can tell, the difference between these two is simply the form of the verb "introduce". I'd honestly pick B here because I always get this feeling that gerunds (such as "introducing") are much better at being the subject of the sentence than long infinitives (such as "to introduce").

Sorry I can't answer your question properly - I'd say CR and RC are my specialties and definitely not SC!

Excellent advice!

Stacey Koprince wrote:Received a PM asking me to respond.

My first thought when reading this one? Not a great problem.

My next thought? D cannot ever be considered the right answer here. In fact, I agree with what Ron said when someone asked about this over at MGMAT: of the 5 given choices, E is the best one. "by a year earlier" disqualifies both B and D.

Ah, and interesting... I did a search for this problem and found it posted on other forums with D listed as the OA... BUT the text for choices D and E are switched on those other forums.

This is why I do not study random problems that someone I don't know typed into some random forum on the internet! The problem itself is not that terrible, but the correct answer (as written above) is E, not D.