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by GmatKiss » Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:00 pm
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
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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:34 pm
We have the plural pronoun "them" outside of the underlined portion. "Them" refers to cows, so the answers that use "the Holstein cow" (singular) can be eliminated. This gets rid of B and D.

A repeats "them" twice more, which is redundant and wordy.

C is not parallel ("provided...and milking")

E does not look parallel at first, but it does work. The farmer must keep the cows cool, keep them "provided with...", and keep them "milked regularly." We can use the initial "keep them" to control all three:

...keep them (cool...provided...milked)

If I'm not mistaken, this is from an old paper-based GMAT.
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by killer1387 » Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:42 pm
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 ice_rush » Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:03 pm
Hi Bill,
So (A) is out only because of redundancy? Is the present tense ok in (A)?



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by killer1387 » Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:50 pm
ice_rush wrote:Hi Bill,
So (A) is out only because of redundancy? Is the present tense ok in (A)?



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use of" ,Ving " is wrong; it means that its the result of the action by the subject. Its the wrong meaning.
"are producing" is wrong it shows the action is going on but here we mean to say something natural.
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by GmatKiss » Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:08 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
OA: E
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