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by Mclaughlin » Mon Aug 11, 2008 12:40 pm
Florida will gain another quarter-million jobs this year alone, many of them in high-paying fields like electronics and banking, making the state’s economy far more diversified than ten years ago.

(A) high-paying fields like electronics and banking, making the state’s economy far more diversified than
(B) high-paying fields like electronics and banking, and making the state’s economy far more diversified than its economy
(C) high-paying fields such as electronics and banking, to make the state’s economy far more diversified than
(D) such high-paying fields as electronics and banking, making the state’s economy far more diversified than it was
(E) such high-paying fields as electronics and banking, and make the state’s economy far more diversified than it was

OA is D can someone please explain why.
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by reachac » Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:25 pm
First, the sentence is providing examples, so use of "such as" is appropriate.
Hence we can narrow down to CDE.

C can be eliminated for wrong comparison, no pronoun + verb after than.

So left with DE

E says
Florida will....do X......and make the state’s economy far more diversified than it was .

Seems to suggest that Florida will make the economy more diversified, whereas it the fact that Florida will gain jobs....that should do the job

Hence D

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by stubbornp » Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:49 pm
IMO D

agree with what reachc said.........

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by NSNguyen » Wed Aug 13, 2008 2:19 am
Like vs Such as test
IMO: D, making compliment for whole phrase preceding
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by Mclaughlin » Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:31 am
such high paying jobs sounds weird.

shouldn't it be high paying jobs such as...

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by NSNguyen » Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:55 pm
such high paying jobs as ..= . high paying jobs such as
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by aj5105 » Sat Aug 16, 2008 7:45 am
yup D..

got carried away by C- overlooked the wrong comparision made.

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by bie.freelance » Mon Aug 18, 2008 12:48 am
Let's move out the modifying phrase "many of them ... "

The sentence will fit right in with D

Florida will gain another quarter-million jobs this year alone (D) making the state’s economy far more diversified than ten years ago.

The gain makes the state's eco more diversified.

And I agree with Reachac, so eliminate E.


I also agree with NSNguyen.


So, D is the answer

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by bullshark » Thu Oct 22, 2009 11:09 pm
bie.freelance wrote:Let's move out the modifying phrase "many of them ... "

The sentence will fit right in with D

Florida will gain another quarter-million jobs this year alone (D) making the state�s economy far more diversified than ten years ago.

The gain makes the state's eco more diversified.

And I agree with Reachac, so eliminate E.


I also agree with NSNguyen.


So, D is the answer

In D, which noun does the participle phrase "making the state's economy far more diversified than it was" modify?

Does it modify Florida? The rule for placing participle phrases is to put them as close as possible to the noun they modify.

So this is another reason why it is wrong?

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by babuxavier » Sun Dec 30, 2012 6:05 am
IMO D

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