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by geet » Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:13 am
Minivans carry as many as seven passengers and, compared with most sport utility vehicles, cost less, get better gas mileage, allow passengers to get in and out more easily, and have a smoother ride.



A. Minivans carry as many as seven passengers and, compared with most sport utility vehicles, cost less,

B. Minivans, which carry as many as seven passengers, compared with most sport utility vehicles, they cost less,

C. Minivans carry as many as seven passengers, in comparison with most sport utility vehicles, and have a lower cost, they

D. Minivans, carrying as many as seven passengers, compared with most sport utility vehicles, cost less,

E. Minivans, which carry as many as seven passengers, compared with most sport utility vehicles the cost is lower, and they

PLZ do explain!
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by hetavdave » Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:25 am
IMO- A

here's the link.. I goggled it :)

https://www.beatthegmat.com/set-q-39-t6097.html
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by gmat_dest » Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:27 am
My answer is A.

A. Minivans carry as many as seven passengers and, compared with most sport utility vehicles, cost less,

These are two independent ideas.

B. Minivans, which carry as many as seven passengers, compared with most sport utility vehicles, they cost less,

Awkard wording. Subject "Minivans" doesn't seem to have a verb.

C. Minivans carry as many as seven passengers, in comparison with most sport utility vehicles[color=red], and have a lower cost,[/color] they

Breaks the list parallelism.

D. Minivans, carrying as many as seven passengers, compared with most sport utility vehicles, cost less,

back-back modifiers.

E. Minivans, which carry as many as seven passengers, compared with most sport utility vehicle[color=red]s the cost is lower, and they
[/color]

Breaks the list parallelism.
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by geet » Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:43 am
Why not D??

A says:

Minivans carry as many as seven passengers and, compared with most sport utility vehicles, cost less, get better gas mileage, allow passengers to get in and out more easily, and have a smoother ride.

A got problem with and , where as D says:

Minivans, carrying as many as seven passengers, compared with most sport utility vehicles, cost less.....
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by goelmohit2002 » Tue Jun 23, 2009 10:55 am
gmat_dest wrote:My answer is A.

A. Minivans carry as many as seven passengers and, compared with most sport utility vehicles, cost less,

These are two independent ideas.

D. Minivans, carrying as many as seven passengers, compared with most sport utility vehicles, cost less,

back-back modifiers.
Hi gmat_dest,

Can you please explain a bit in more detail what are these back-back modifiers....in what scenarios are they correct/wrong ?

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by Domnu » Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:30 am
I chose A, but would like to see why D is wrong. I said that D was wrong because A was more parallel.
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by phelps » Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:03 pm
I feel carrying and cost less cannot be used at the same time......
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by goelmohit2002 » Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:18 pm
Hi All,

This question is from VIP Test#3...Q39....there they say that the answer should be "D"....the reasoning they give for kicking out "A" is as below:

Can some one please tell that "comma before and = wrong" theory holds any ground in GMAT ?

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The comma that follows "and" should precede it in order for the conjunction to properly coordinate the two clauses.
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Although I am not sure about the quality of explanation provided by that source....but I was stumped by this question today...because I had chosen "D" myself initially today.....as I had done this question earlier.

Good that this question appeared in the forum today. Before this question appeared today, I had thought that the explanation that VIP tests provided must be valid. If this is not the case...then probably I will have to look for other similar learnings that I have done from that source :-(

Kindly help !!!!

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by rah_pandey » Wed Jun 24, 2009 12:06 am
This question is in OG12 also and they say answer is A if i remember correctly.
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by geet » Wed Jun 24, 2009 1:01 am
rah_pandey wrote:This question is in OG12 also and they say answer is A if i remember correctly.
Can you please post the explanation given in OG12
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by viju9162 » Wed Jun 24, 2009 2:05 am
I would go with D. The sentence is conveying two meanings. It is compared with sports utility vehicle and also describing its capacity.

D satisfies these two. The phrase after first comma describes about the vehicle. And after the second comma, compares it with other vehicles.
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