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by agarwalva » Mon May 14, 2012 10:29 pm
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For the farmer who takes care to keep them cool, providing them with high energy feed and milking them regularly,Holstein cows are producing an average of 2275 gallons of milk each year.

A. providing them with high energy feed and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing
B. providing them with high energy feed ,and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces
C. provided with high energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing
D. provided with high energy feed ,and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces
E. provided with high energy feed ,and milked regularly, Holstein cows will produce

OA : E
Even after reading several posts I am confused.

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by GmatKiss » Tue May 15, 2012 12:45 am
For the farmer who takes care to keep them cool, providing them with high energy feed and milking them regularly,Holstein cows are producing an average of 2275 gallons of milk each year.

A. providing them with high energy feed and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing
B. providing them with high energy feed ,and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces
C. provided with high energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing
D. provided with high energy feed ,and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces
E. provided with high energy feed ,and milked regularly, Holstein cows will produce

IMO: E
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by ihatemaths » Tue May 15, 2012 1:14 am
I can understand 90% of option E . since its a condition they are using WILL. but the first part of provided + milked totatlly confuses me . Experts please explain.
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by Gaurav 2013-fall » Tue May 15, 2012 2:33 am
I think this one is not well written because it violates parallelism.
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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Tue May 15, 2012 7:15 am
E is parallel; "provided" and "milked" are participles (verb forms used as adjectives).

The farmer keeps them cool...provided...and milked. Three adjectives.
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by Gaurav 2013-fall » Tue May 15, 2012 8:00 am
Thanks Bill, this will help.
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by GMAT Kolaveri » Tue May 15, 2012 8:17 am
agarwalva wrote:Gprep #2

For the farmer who takes care to keep them cool, providing them with high energy feed and milking them regularly,Holstein cows are producing an average of 2275 gallons of milk each year.

A. providing them with high energy feed and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing
B. providing them with high energy feed ,and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces
C. provided with high energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing
D. provided with high energy feed ,and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces
E. provided with high energy feed ,and milked regularly, Holstein cows will produce

OA : E
Even after reading several posts I am confused.

Please give your explnations
This is a simple if you can find the clues in the non-underlined portion "them" --> cows (plural subject) --> produce (plural verb)
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by agarwalva » Thu May 24, 2012 9:41 am
GmatKiss wrote:For the farmer who takes care to keep them cool, providing them with high energy feed and milking them regularly,Holstein cows are producing an average of 2275 gallons of milk each year.

A. providing them with high energy feed and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing
B. providing them with high energy feed ,and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces
C. provided with high energy feed, and milking them regularly, Holstein cows are producing
D. provided with high energy feed ,and milked regularly, the Holstein cow produces
E. provided with high energy feed ,and milked regularly, Holstein cows will produce

IMO: E
what the problem with .. milking them.. whats the problem with A
Please can you elaborate
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by agarwalva » Thu May 24, 2012 9:46 am
Bill@VeritasPrep wrote:E is parallel; "provided" and "milked" are participles (verb forms used as adjectives).


The farmer keeps them cool...provided...and milked. Three adjectives.

Bill are you trying to say


For the farmer who takes care to keep them cool,
For the farmer who takes care to keep them provided with high energy feed
For the farmer who takes care to keep them milked regularly,
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by ihatemaths » Thu May 24, 2012 7:42 pm
Thanks Bill i understood , got the sentence framing all wrong in my head.

E sound fine its like

For farmers who takes care to keep them cool ,(provided with high-energy food , milked regularly , hoiusten cows will produce 2275 gallons of milk per year).

understanding the first part took time.
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