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by mohit11 » Sat Feb 20, 2010 1:10 am
Answer Should be D,

All items in the list should be parallel and should have the same structure. Whats the OA?
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by fibbonnaci » Sat Feb 20, 2010 1:47 am
error involved- parallelism.
what are the elements that are being compared? the non underlined part of the sentence gives us a clue regarding this. the elements in the non underlined part of the sentence are nouns. Thus the underlined sentence must contain nouns to keep the sentence parallel.
a substantial decrease and an increase are both nouns and thus are parallel to the rest of the sentence.

IMO- D

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by AtifS » Sat Feb 20, 2010 2:45 am
IMO D. parallelism issue
In Gmat always avoid unnecessary +ing (gerunds) except some cases, so A,B, and C are out.
if u see the sentence a+noun being used after commas, so only D & E are close choices but in E "substantial" is omitted which doesn't complement the original sentence's meaning. so D is the best choice
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by firdaus117 » Sat Feb 20, 2010 5:44 am
IMO D.Simple question of parallelism.
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