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by aditya8062 » Sun Dec 06, 2015 8:21 pm
The growth of Hand.Inc depends on its ability for attracting developers to write applications for its phones and convincing networks to spend money to promote its phones.

A) its ability for attracting developers to write applications for its phones and convincing

B) its ability to attract developers who write applications for phones and to convince

C) whether it can attract developers to write applications for its phones and convince

D) if it can attract developers to write applications for its phones and convince

E) whether or not it has the capability to attract developers to write applications for its phones and convince

my concern: parallelism in B seems equally viable ,though with a different meaning .the proclaimed answer is C .however i feel that parallelism in C can be interpreted in the following way too : whether it can attract developers to write applications for its phones and [to] convince---->this meaning would be nonsensical
ALSO how do we reject the different meaning (in B) ,which seems equally viable

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by theCodeToGMAT » Tue Dec 29, 2015 2:57 am
I have faced similar issue in past. I was told to stick to the meaning provided by part {A}.
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by Amrabdelnaby » Thu Jan 07, 2016 4:42 pm
I thought about b and c for sometime then I decided to remove the fluff in both sentences and look at them like this:
Its ability to attract and to convince vs whether it can attract and convince
The second one (c) seemed more appealing and correct
I see ur concern that c might have a double meaning yet, it is more right

aditya8062 wrote:The growth of Hand.Inc depends on its ability for attracting developers to write applications for its phones and convincing networks to spend money to promote its phones.

A) its ability for attracting developers to write applications for its phones and convincing

B) its ability to attract developers who write applications for phones and to convince

C) whether it can attract developers to write applications for its phones and convince

D) if it can attract developers to write applications for its phones and convince

E) whether or not it has the capability to attract developers to write applications for its phones and convince

my concern: parallelism in B seems equally viable ,though with a different meaning .the proclaimed answer is C .however i feel that parallelism in C can be interpreted in the following way too : whether it can attract developers to write applications for its phones and [to] convince---->this meaning would be nonsensical
ALSO how do we reject the different meaning (in B) ,which seems equally viable

thanks
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by jain2016 » Thu Jan 07, 2016 9:55 pm
I also marked B.

@Experts, Please shed some light on this.

Thanks,

SJ
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by shona04 » Tue Jan 26, 2016 4:21 am
I feel it should be B, since it is parallel and maintains the meaning of original sentence.
adding whether in the statement makes it ambiguous, since it is later accompanied with and convince
OA and suggestions pls
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