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by limestone » Sun Oct 03, 2010 7:26 pm
In recent years cattle breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding, in part that their steers should acquire certain characteristics and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor.

A.
B. in part for the acquisition of certain characteristics in their steers
C. partly because of their steers acquiring certain characteristics
D. partly because certain characteristics should be acquired by their steers
E. partly to acquire certain characteristics in their steers

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by Jim@Grockit » Sun Oct 03, 2010 8:03 pm
limestone wrote:In recent years cattle breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding, in part that their steers should acquire certain characteristics and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor.

A.
B. in part for the acquisition of certain characteristics in their steers
C. partly because of their steers acquiring certain characteristics
D. partly because certain characteristics should be acquired by their steers
E. partly to acquire certain characteristics in their steers

[spoiler]OA: later[/spoiler]
I think some people don't like to respond when you withhold the OA; you might get more by including it in the initial post.

In this particular case, partly/in part is a no-brainer, because parallelism demands "partly" (the non-underlined portion has "partly", so the underlined portion should as well). Both are grammatically correct, but "partly" says in one word what "in part" says in two.
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by limestone » Sun Oct 03, 2010 8:40 pm
Thanks Jim for your suggestion. Next time, I'll put OA in Spoiler right after the question.

OA is E. However, I chose D as it retains the parallel of "because + S + V". Am I missing something?
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by Jim@Grockit » Sun Oct 03, 2010 9:02 pm
limestone wrote:Thanks Jim for your suggestion. Next time, I'll put OA in Spoiler right after the question.

OA is E. However, I chose D as it retains the parallel of "because + S + V". Am I missing something?
Choice D has wordiness and the passive voice going against it. You weren't wrong to go with the most parallel answer on a guess though -- the GMAT loves parallelism so much, they should get married. There are times when the most parallel answer is wrong, though, because it introduces new errors. In this case they are "GMAT errors" -- wordiness and the passive voice are not incorrect in real life, just not always the best choice.
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by mundasingh123 » Mon Oct 04, 2010 12:21 am
Jim@Grockit wrote:
limestone wrote:Thanks Jim for your suggestion. Next time, I'll put OA in Spoiler right after the question.

OA is E. However, I chose D as it retains the parallel of "because + S + V". Am I missing something?
Choice D has wordiness and the passive voice going against it. You weren't wrong to go with the most parallel answer on a guess though -- the GMAT loves parallelism so much, they should get married. There are times when the most parallel answer is wrong, though, because it introduces new errors. In this case they are "GMAT errors" -- wordiness and the passive voice are not incorrect in real life, just not always the best choice.
But Jim,
How cani acquire a characteristic in someone/something.
The someone/something acquires the characteristic.
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