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E wins.
In little more than a decade, Argentina has become the world's leading exporter of honey, with nearly 90,000 tons a year sold to foreign markets, almost half of which going to the United States.
(A) with nearly 90,000 tons a year sold to foreign markets, almost half of which going
(B) with the sale of nearly 90,000 tons a year to foreign markets, and almost half of it that goes
(C) with the sale to foreign markets of nearly 90,000 tons a year, with almost half of it going
(D) selling nearly 90,000 tons a year to foreign markets, and almost half of it goes
(E) selling nearly 90,000 tons a year to foreign markets, with almost half going
In little more than a decade, Argentina has become the world's leading exporter of honey, with nearly 90,000 tons a year sold to foreign markets, almost half of which going to the United States.
(A) with nearly 90,000 tons a year sold to foreign markets, almost half of which going
(B) with the sale of nearly 90,000 tons a year to foreign markets, and almost half of it that goes
(C) with the sale to foreign markets of nearly 90,000 tons a year, with almost half of it going
(D) selling nearly 90,000 tons a year to foreign markets, and almost half of it goes
(E) selling nearly 90,000 tons a year to foreign markets, with almost half going
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The sentence is grammatically incorrect. So (A) is ruled out.
(B) numbers mismatch
(C) numbers mismatch
(D) numbers mismatch
(E) correct
(B) numbers mismatch
(C) numbers mismatch
(D) numbers mismatch
(E) correct
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Confused b\w D and E
But I will choose D
Couple of reasons for rejecting E or for say D
1)In E With should have a Noun coming with it ..Don't see anyn So here D has an advantage
2)Somebody told me a year back that if you have two commas in a single sentence and if you remove both the commas and the clause b\w those commas then also the sentence should make sense.So if we just ignore "selling nearly 90,000 tons a year to foreign markets" and then try to read the sentence then E wins for me.
But I will choose D
Couple of reasons for rejecting E or for say D
1)In E With should have a Noun coming with it ..Don't see anyn So here D has an advantage
2)Somebody told me a year back that if you have two commas in a single sentence and if you remove both the commas and the clause b\w those commas then also the sentence should make sense.So if we just ignore "selling nearly 90,000 tons a year to foreign markets" and then try to read the sentence then E wins for me.
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The way I look at this question was when I first read the sentence before the underline, I asked myself what lead to Argentina to become the leading exporter of honey. This allowed me to eliminate A B C.
Now you are left with two splits: the use of with or and
D) using AND this is a parallelism marker no parallelism exist. Another point is that by using AND you are implying that the weight on "selling" and "half of it" is equal weight when this is not true..Selling is the action and the almost " half of it" represents what was sold - it is essentially part of the selling and this use does not correctly modify the selling.
E) with modifies what was sold "selling" and explains it correctly.
Hope this helps
Now you are left with two splits: the use of with or and
D) using AND this is a parallelism marker no parallelism exist. Another point is that by using AND you are implying that the weight on "selling" and "half of it" is equal weight when this is not true..Selling is the action and the almost " half of it" represents what was sold - it is essentially part of the selling and this use does not correctly modify the selling.
E) with modifies what was sold "selling" and explains it correctly.
Hope this helps
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hare one
comma doing shows the detail of main clause.
the action shown by comma doing and that shown by main clause are the same.
comma doing shows the detail of main clause.
the action shown by comma doing and that shown by main clause are the same.
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I believe that the correct answer is E
It is easy to narrow down the choices to D and E, between these two the decision point is between "going and "it goes". Choice E keeps the parallelism "selling"..."going"... which makes it the correct answer
D. selling nearly 90,000 tons a year to foreign markets, and almost half of it goes. Not parallel
E. selling nearly 90,000 tons a year to foreign markets, with almost half going. Parallel
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It is easy to narrow down the choices to D and E, between these two the decision point is between "going and "it goes". Choice E keeps the parallelism "selling"..."going"... which makes it the correct answer
D. selling nearly 90,000 tons a year to foreign markets, and almost half of it goes. Not parallel
E. selling nearly 90,000 tons a year to foreign markets, with almost half going. Parallel
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the patternrohittk wrote:Please can someone identify the correct option with explanations.
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Q15:
In little more than a decade, Argentina has become the world�s leading exporter of honey,
with nearly 90,000 tons a year sold to foreign markets, almost half of which going to theUnited States.
A. with nearly 90,000 tons a year sold to foreign markets, almost half of which going
B. with the sale of nearly 90,000 tons a year to foreign markets, and almost half of it
that goes
C. with the sale to foreign markets of nearly 90,000 tons a year, with almost half of it
going
D. selling nearly 90,000 tons a year to foreign markets, and almost half of it goes
E. selling nearly 90,000 tons a year to foreign markets, with almost half going
main clause+with+noun+noun modifier
is important for us to know. "with." work as adverb showing detail, context and reason of main clause.
but in this case "with+noun+noun modifier" can modify a doing as it can in E.
why D is wrong/
because
"half of it goes" is paralel with main clause. this is not logic. this idea should modify the main clause not be parale with main clause.
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I dont think so.e-GMAT wrote:"with" modifiers are very versatile modifiers. They can modify either the preceding clause or the preceding nouns. What they modify actually depends on the context of the sentence and the wording of the modifier itself.
This is the sentence with choice E
In little more than a decade, Argentina has become the world's leading exporter of honey,
selling nearly 90,000 tons a year to foreign markets, with almost half going to the United States.
The highlighted modifier above modifies the action of the preceding clause. In essence this sentence can be written as two separate sentences:
1. In little more than a decade, Argentina has become the world's leading exporter of honey, selling nearly 90,000 tons a year to foreign markets.
2. Almost half of the exports go to US.
So sentence 2 has been converted into with modifier. This modifier extends the thought of the preceding clause by providing a detail supporting it.
You may find discussion of "with modifiers" pertaining to 2 official sentences at this link:
https://www.beatthegmat.com/comma-with-e ... tml#376889
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Payal
I think "with phrase" inhere modify "selling...". with phrase can not modify main clause logically.
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