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In build-to-suit projects, developers design and construct buildings to meet the needs of a primary tenant, who pays the developer a marginal fee for design and construction work and agrees to buy the completed building or will occupy all or most of it in exchange for a favorable long-term lease.

A). will occupy all or most of it
B). will occupy all of it, or most of it,
C). to occupy all or most of it
D). occupy all of it, or most,
E). they will occupy all of it, or most,

Answer is C

What is wrong with D ?

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by GMATGuruNY » Wed Jan 23, 2013 5:37 am
vinni.k wrote:In build-to-suit projects, developers design and construct buildings to meet the needs of a primary tenant, who pays the developer a marginal fee for design and construction work and agrees to buy the completed building or will occupy all or most of it in exchange for a favorable long-term lease.

A). will occupy all or most of it
B). will occupy all of it, or most of it,
C). to occupy all or most of it
D). occupy all of it, or most,
E). they will occupy all of it, or most,

Answer is C
The OA conveys the intended meaning: who agrees to buy the completed building or to occupy ALL OR MOST OF IT.
D: who agrees to buy the completed building or occupy ALL OF IT.
Here, a reader will initially construe that the tenant agrees to occupy ALL of the completed building and wonder why the sentence doesn't simply read as follows:
who agrees to buy or occupy the completed building.
Since C conveys the intended meaning more clearly, eliminate D and choose C.
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by ceilidh.erickson » Wed Jan 23, 2013 8:45 am
It's worth pointing out that in D, it's perfectly acceptable to say "to buy or occupy" rather than "to buy or to occupy." These are both acceptable parallel structures, because it's implied that the TO applies to both BUY and OCCUPY in the first example.

The difference between C and D is a difference in meaning. The prepositional phrase OF IT has moved, which changes the meaning. In C, ALL OR MOST OF IT means that there are two options for the amount of "it" - ALL OF IT or MOST OF IT. When we move OF IT to say ALL OF IT, OR MOST, then only ALL is modifying OF IT. There's only one option - all of it. The OR MOST is kind of dangling by itself, not modifying anything in particular. So, this changes the meaning of the sentence.

Whenever pieces of a sentence (particularly modifiers) change position, ask yourself - is there a meaning change?
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by vinni.k » Thu Jan 24, 2013 9:17 am
Thank you :D

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