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by [email protected] » Sun Jan 15, 2012 3:59 am
The immediate international response to the scandal showed that global communication is faster than never before and news of events in one region can have a significant and almost instantaneous political impact on remote governments.


A] is faster than never before
B] is faster than ever before so
C] is faster than never before while
D] is faster than ever before and that
E] faster than never before is as








OA given is D. But Wat is the problem with B in the question. I chose B...
Could anyone just explain!
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by gmatblood » Sun Jan 15, 2012 10:07 am
[email protected] wrote:The immediate international response to the scandal showed that global communication is faster than never before and news of events in one region can have a significant and almost instantaneous political impact on remote governments.


A] is faster than never before
B] is faster than ever before so
C] is faster than never before while
D] is faster than ever before and that
E] faster than never before is as

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by LalaB » Sun Jan 15, 2012 10:14 am
+1 for D

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by avik.ch » Sun Jan 15, 2012 9:13 pm
Its parallelism here :
The immediate international response to the scandal showed
- that global ..... and
- that news ......

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by saketk » Sun Jan 15, 2012 10:40 pm
[email protected] wrote:The immediate international response to the scandal showed that global communication is faster than never before and news of events in one region can have a significant and almost instantaneous political impact on remote governments.


A] is faster than never before
B] is faster than ever before so
C] is faster than never before while
D] is faster than ever before and that
E] faster than never before is as








OA given is D. But Wat is the problem with B in the question. I chose B...
Could anyone just explain!
What part of the question is underlined?

If it is till before that the correct option will look something like this..

The immediate international response to the scandal showed that global communication is faster than ever before and that and news of events in one region can have a significant and almost instantaneous political impact on remote governments.
-- which looks odd.

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by ArunangsuSahu » Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:05 am
"never" and Parallelism:
[color=green]showed[/color]
a) that global communication is faster than ever before
b) that news of events in one region can have a significant and almost instantaneous political impact on remote governments.