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by vivek.kapoor83 » Sun Nov 30, 2008 5:34 am
It is as difficult to prevent crimes against property as those that are against a person.
(A) those that are against a
(B) those against a
(C) it is against a
(D) preventing those against a
(E) it is to prevent those against a
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by Spring2009 » Sun Nov 30, 2008 5:57 am
E...
After "As" is a clause, and "it is to prevent" is parallel to "It is as difficult to prevent".
"Those" || "crimes".
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by Tryingmybest » Sun Nov 30, 2008 7:32 am
B
Parallelism
crimes against property as those(crimes)against a person
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by vivek.kapoor83 » Sun Nov 30, 2008 9:58 am
pls explain with the reasons...why other choices are wrong.
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by iamcste » Sun Nov 30, 2008 10:07 am
vivek.kapoor83 wrote:It is as difficult to prevent crimes against property as those that are against a person.
(A) those that are against a

"Prevent crimes against property" are compared with "crimes against person"
(B) those against a

Sams as A
(C) it is against a

crimes is plural and hence incorrect pronoun
(D) preventing those against a

Lack of parallelism ..."prevent crimes" and "preventing those" are not parallel
(E) it is to prevent those against a

to prevent crimes against property as it is to prevent those against a person
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by karmayogi » Sun Nov 30, 2008 10:43 am
Let's paraphrase the sentence:
To prevent crimes against property is as difficult as it is to prevent those (crimes) against a person.

IMO E
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by neonite » Thu Apr 22, 2010 9:18 pm
Wanted to revive this discussion,

The OA is A as per the source. IMO it was coming to be B.

Any suggestions?
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by frank1 » Fri Apr 23, 2010 1:18 am
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C My take
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by neonite » Fri Apr 23, 2010 3:56 am
Can we have one of the GMAT instructors answer this one please?
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by aspirant2010 » Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:39 am
I am on E because of parallelism...........
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by FightWithGMAT » Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:53 am
It should be E
We need to compare two clauses here.
C would have been OK if we had compared nouns, unfortunately not the case in hand.
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by tpr-becky » Fri Apr 23, 2010 12:16 pm
I agree with E becuase of the parallelism stated above.
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by Phirozz » Fri Apr 23, 2010 6:44 pm
neonite wrote:Wanted to revive this discussion,

The OA is A as per the source. IMO it was coming to be B.

Any suggestions?
OA is E
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