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by ILULA08 » Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:34 pm
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So dogged were Frances Perkins’ investigations of the garment industry, and her lobbying for wage and hour reform was persistent, Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt recruited Perkins to work within the government, rather than as a social worker.
A. and her lobbying for wage and hour reform was persistent,
B. and lobbying for wage and hour reform was persistent, so that
C. her lobbying for wage and hour reform persistent, that
D. lobbying for wage and hour reform was so persistent,
E. so persistent her lobbying for wage and hour reform, that
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by madhur_ahuja » Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:16 pm
IMO D , due to || ism
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by goelmohit2002 » Wed Aug 12, 2009 1:25 am
IMO E....idiom is so....that....for comparison
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by ILULA08 » Wed Aug 12, 2009 7:35 pm
yeah the ans is E but is it just the question of Idiom. If E is the answer there will be two "so" used in the sentence.
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by ankitns » Thu Aug 13, 2009 1:36 pm
IMO..
I dont think its just the idiom....its actually parallelism
The first part is "So dogged were Frances Perkins’ investigations of the garment industry.."

So + adjective (dogged) + noun (investigations)...

with the connector "and"...the part following "and" must be parallel with the first half...

the only answer choice that is parallel is
"so persistent her lobbying for wage and hour reform, that"

So + adjective (persistent ) + noun (lobbying)...


Additionally, the idiom is So X, that Y...the answer E correctly follows this structure...

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ILULA08 wrote:yeah the ans is E but is it just the question of Idiom. If E is the answer there will be two "so" used in the sentence.
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by riteshbindal » Thu Aug 13, 2009 2:42 pm
D IMO.
There is no referent for "her". Remember, "her" can not go inside Frances Perkin through the word "Frances Perkins’ investigations".
So A, C and E are out.
B makes awkward construction due to "so that" and it also changes the meaning.
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by arorag » Thu Aug 13, 2009 5:04 pm
This is problem with great confusions....see explanation by Bob800
https://www.urch.com/forums/gmat-sentenc ... ins-3.html
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by nipunkathuria » Sat Sep 25, 2010 10:47 am
Plz check this...it will clear the doubt whether option E should have an and between the two "so"
so X,so y, that z

Example of a phrase in apposition:

He was so angry, so thoroughly furious, that he forgot himself - the fury is the same thing, or part of the same thing, as the anger.

without apposition:

He was so angry, and so thoroughly furious, that he forgot himself - Here the suggestion is that the fury is something other than the anger, something in addition to the anger. This is a common error in loose writing.
https://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1071840
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