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by aditya8062 » Sat Dec 05, 2015 6:20 pm
Trailing Hong Kong, Colon Free Zone, the world's second biggest re-export center lying at the Atlantic end of the Panama canal.



A Trailing Hong Kong, Colon Free Zone, the world's second biggest re-export center lying at the Atlantic end of the Panama canal

B Colon Free Zone, the world's second biggest re-export center lies at the Atlantic end trailing Hong Kong of the Panama canal

C The Colon Free Zone, the world's second-biggest re-export centre, lies at the Atlantic end of the Panama canal, trailing Hong Kong

D At the Atlantic end of the Panama canal trailing Hong Kong lying the Colon Free Zone, the world's second-biggest re-export centre

E Colon Free Zone, trailing Hong Kong, lies at the Atlantic end of the Panama canal, the world's second-biggest re-export centre


my concern: the proclaimed answer C does not seem correct to me
REASONING: the fact that "The Colon Free Zone lies at the Atlantic end of the Panama canal" HAS NO BEARING on the FACT that "it TRAILS Hongkong" . in fact,I feel that the CORRECT meaing will come out in the following: The Colon Free Zone IS the world's second-biggest re-export centre, TRAILING HONGKONG.
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by GMATGuruNY » Sat Dec 05, 2015 8:25 pm
aditya8062 wrote:my concern: the proclaimed answer C does not seem correct to me
REASONING: the fact that "The Colon Free Zone lies at the Atlantic end of the Panama canal" HAS NO BEARING on the FACT that "it TRAILS Hongkong" . in fact,I feel that the CORRECT meaing will come out in the following: The Colon Free Zone IS the world's second-biggest re-export centre, TRAILING HONGKONG.
A COMMA + VERBing modifier must serve to express an action that happens AS PART OF the preceding action.
OA: lies at the Atlantic end of the Panama canal, trailing Hong Kong
Here, the COMMA + VERBing action (trailing Hong Kong) is UNRELATED to the preceding action (lies at the Atlantic end of the Panama Canal).
Thus, this usage of a COMMA + VERBing modifier is inappropriate.

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by aditya8062 » Sat Dec 05, 2015 8:30 pm
Thanks Guru for your inputs
the source is E gmat . even i had ignored option C for this reason
thanks again
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