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by vaivish » Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:39 am
797. The original building and loan associations were organized as limited life funds, whose members made monthly payments on their share subscriptions, then taking turns drawing on the funds for home mortgages.
(A) subscriptions, then taking turns drawing
(B) subscriptions, and then taking turns drawing
(C) subscriptions and then took turns drawing
(D) subscriptions and then took turns, they drew
(E) subscriptions and then drew, taking turns


OA is C.
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by GmatKiss » Fri Oct 07, 2011 7:23 am
IMO: C
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by e-GMAT » Fri Oct 07, 2011 10:02 am
Meaning & Error Analysis:
The members did two things - they "made" monthly payment and "took turns drawing...". Hence, these two activities are parallel and hence should be separated by 'and' with "members" as the subject for both the verbs.

Verb "taking" must be parallel to verb "made" to make the list parallel.

Answer Choice Analysis:

Choice A: This choice has parallelism errors as discussed above.
Choice B: Verb "taking" is not parallel to "made".
Choice C: Correct. Verb "made" is parallel to verb "took".
Choice D: "Then took turns" doing what? The independent clause after comma makes it a run-on sentence.
Choice E: Same as choice B.

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by gmatdriller » Fri Oct 07, 2011 10:33 am
Hi e-gmat, am just curious; If some of the options were:

(i) subscriptions, taking turns drawing
(ii) subscriptions, taking turns to draw

How do we eliminate both in the context of the original question?
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by 1947 » Fri Oct 07, 2011 11:20 am
Hi e-gmat
One more question regarding this

subscriptions and then took turns drawing
if this would have been
subscriptions and then took turns to draw


out of these which one would be correct ?

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by edvhou812 » Fri Oct 07, 2011 3:58 pm
(A) subscriptions, then taking turns drawing
Tense error. Doesn't agree with "were organized" and "made monthly payments"

(B) subscriptions, and then taking turns drawing
See 'A'

(C) subscriptions and then took turns drawing
Hold

(D) subscriptions and then took turns, they drew
Hold

(E) subscriptions and then drew, taking turns
See 'A'

Between the two options that I am holding, I like 'C' the most. I'm sure someone could offer a more intelligent reason, but I have never heard or read someone or something say "then took turns, they drew."

Answer: C
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