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by kanika123 » Sun Aug 04, 2013 1:13 am
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. Partly to acquire certain characteristics in their steers

B. Partly because of their steers acquiring certain characteristics

C. In part for the acquisition of certain characteristics in their steers

D. Partly because certain characteristics should be acquired by their steers

E. In part that their steers should acquire certain characteristics
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by [email protected] » Sun Aug 04, 2013 10:36 am
Hi kanika123,

What is the source of this question?

I ask because the GMAT format for SCs is to have answer A match the original prompt (in this example, it's answer E that matches the original prompt).

In regards to the grammar, this SC uses 2-part parallelism. Since the second part uses the word "partly", the first part would need to use "partly" also.
Eliminate C and E

Next, I'd look at the "style" of the sentence:
-Answer B sounds clunky ("partly because of their steers acquiring")
-Answer D also sounds clunky and is passive ("partly because certain characteristics should be acquired BY")

Answer A is parallel in both the word "partly" and in the "to *verb*" (to acquire....to provide) phrase.

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