After several years of rapid growth, the healthy care company became one of the largest health care providers in the metropolitan area, while it then proved unable to handle t ... ayment to doctors and hospitals.
A. while it then proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in its payment to
B. while it then proved unable to handle the increase in business and fell months behind in its payment to
C. but then it proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in its paying
D. but then proving unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in paying
E. but then proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in paying
OA is E
why not A?
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I don't have any grammatical rule to reject A and B. But please look at the sentence again
C. but then it proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in its paying doctors and hospitals
Now you say, is this correct
I find "while it then"=> redundant and awkwardA. while it then proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in its payment to
B. while it then proved unable to handle the increase in business and fell months behind in its payment to
C. but then it proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in its paying doctors and hospitals
Now you say, is this correct
tense error => "proved"D. but then proving unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in paying
Perfect answerbut then proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in paying
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Hi Karan,gmat740 wrote: C. but then it proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in its paying doctors and hospitals
Can you please elaborate a bit...why C is wrong ?
Thanks
After several years of rapid growth, the healthy care company became one of the largest health care providers in the metropolitan area, while it then proved unable to handle t ... ayment to doctors and hospitals.
A. while it then proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in its payment to
this is wrong for two reasons - it/its reference ..it is not clear whether it is referring company or the rapid growth
B. while it then proved unable to handle the increase in business and fell months behind in its payment to
same as A
C. but then it proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in its paying
same as A
D. but then proving unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in paying
this is wrong because proving and falling are not two parallel actions.
E. but then proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in paying
This looks without any error. You can do a reverse check while indicates a simultaneous action where as but indicates a contrast.
Hope this helps
A. while it then proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in its payment to
this is wrong for two reasons - it/its reference ..it is not clear whether it is referring company or the rapid growth
B. while it then proved unable to handle the increase in business and fell months behind in its payment to
same as A
C. but then it proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in its paying
same as A
D. but then proving unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in paying
this is wrong because proving and falling are not two parallel actions.
E. but then proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in paying
This looks without any error. You can do a reverse check while indicates a simultaneous action where as but indicates a contrast.
Hope this helps
Kelly wrote:After several years of rapid growth, the healthy care company became one of the largest health care providers in the metropolitan area, while it then proved unable to handle t ... ayment to doctors and hospitals.
A. while it then proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in its payment to (it? metroploitan area or company)
B. while it then proved unable to handle the increase in business and fell months behind in its payment to (it? metroploitan area or company)
C. but then it proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in its paying (it? metroploitan area or company)
D. but then proving unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in paying ('but' onwards a clause should follow, not a phrase)
E. but then proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in paying
OA is E
why not A?
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If you put C in the underline part and then read out the sentence you will find that the non-underlined part following the underlined part won't just fit in idiomaticallygoelmohit2002 wrote:Hi Karan,gmat740 wrote: C. but then it proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in its paying doctors and hospitals
Can you please elaborate a bit...why C is wrong ?
Thanks
Hope this helps
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Hi Karan,gmat740 wrote: If you put C in the underline part and then read out the sentence you will find that the non-underlined part following the underlined part won't just fit in idiomatically
Hope this helps
Can you please explain what idiom is broken....i am really not able to figure out what grammar rule is broken by C or what liking of GMAT is broken by C ?
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goelmohit2002,goelmohit2002 wrote:Hi Karan,gmat740 wrote: C. but then it proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in its paying doctors and hospitals
Can you please elaborate a bit...why C is wrong ?
Thanks
[C] is wrong for couple of reasons-
"it" in the sentence can refer to "metropolitan area" or "health care company"
"its" in the sentence can also refer to "metropolitan area" or "health care company"
I still do not agree with gmat740 about the redundancy issue as posited in [A]. What's wrong with [A]? "while it then"- really?
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i guess the problem with C is not "it" ambiguously referring to the company or the metropolitan area. "it" logically and unambiguously does refer to the company.
the problem is in the part "falling months behind in its paying doctors and hospitals"
=>seems to say the company lags behinds in its doctors and hospitals that pay. paying seems to modify doctors and hospitals.
the problem is in the part "falling months behind in its paying doctors and hospitals"
=>seems to say the company lags behinds in its doctors and hospitals that pay. paying seems to modify doctors and hospitals.
i think "it" can refer to either company or metropolitan area in C.scoobydooby wrote:i guess the problem with C is not "it" ambiguously referring to the company or the metropolitan area. "it" logically and unambiguously does refer to the company.
i think "it" is also problematic is C.
suggestions please..
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Awesome Scooby !!!scoobydooby wrote:i guess the problem with C is not "it" ambiguously referring to the company or the metropolitan area. "it" logically and unambiguously does refer to the company.
the problem is in the part "falling months behind in its paying doctors and hospitals"
=>seems to say the company lags behinds in its doctors and hospitals that pay. paying seems to modify doctors and hospitals.
This looks perfectly correct.....
If we replace "its" with Company's (its a possessive pronoun)...
then Complete sentence with C option becomes:
After several years of rapid growth, the healthy care company became one of the largest health care providers in the metropolitan area, but then Company proved unable to handle the increase in business, falling months behind in Company's paying doctors and hospitals.
This is totally awkward sentence now....says company is falling behind in company's paying doctors and hospitals.
Suggetions please !!!
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Hi All,
As per Stacey just as being is almost always avoided in GMAT....same is the case with possessive + gerund setup....
Here I guess paying is acting as gerund....and "its" is possessive....so this becomes possessive + gerund...that should be avoided in GMAT...
Please refer to Stacey's thoughts on the following thread for this issue.
https://www.beatthegmat.com/ing-modifier ... 43-45.html
Can someone please confirm whether I am correct in my understanding or not ?
Thanks
Mohit
As per Stacey just as being is almost always avoided in GMAT....same is the case with possessive + gerund setup....
Here I guess paying is acting as gerund....and "its" is possessive....so this becomes possessive + gerund...that should be avoided in GMAT...
Please refer to Stacey's thoughts on the following thread for this issue.
https://www.beatthegmat.com/ing-modifier ... 43-45.html
Can someone please confirm whether I am correct in my understanding or not ?
Thanks
Mohit
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Mohit asked me to address this one.
In this context, "while" = "at the same time as" but that's obviously NOT what's being described, so eliminate A and B.
Then, we have parallelism!
the company became X, but then <it proved / proving / proved> Y.
The subject "the company" applies to both verbs. ("but" is the parallelism marker.) So, which is parallel to became? Proved. Eliminate C ("IT proved" - we already have the subject; we don't need a pronoun) and D (proving = not parallel to became).
In this context, "while" = "at the same time as" but that's obviously NOT what's being described, so eliminate A and B.
Then, we have parallelism!
the company became X, but then <it proved / proving / proved> Y.
The subject "the company" applies to both verbs. ("but" is the parallelism marker.) So, which is parallel to became? Proved. Eliminate C ("IT proved" - we already have the subject; we don't need a pronoun) and D (proving = not parallel to became).
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Hi Stacey,Stacey Koprince wrote:Mohit asked me to address this one.
In this context, "while" = "at the same time as" but that's obviously NOT what's being described, so eliminate A and B.
Then, we have parallelism!
the company became X, but then <it proved / proving / proved> Y.
The subject "the company" applies to both verbs. ("but" is the parallelism marker.) So, which is parallel to became? Proved. Eliminate C ("IT proved" - we already have the subject; we don't need a pronoun) and D (proving = not parallel to became).
Thanks. But can you please tell why "it" is not required in 2nd clause....
In Manhattan SC guide there are couple of examples that violate this rule and are said to be correct....For e.g....page189 of SC guide 4th edition gives this example:
She is not interested in sports, but she likes watching them on TV.
Looks like the sentence at hand and the above example of Manhattan follow the same setup....both sentences have same subjects as of previous clause.
Kindly also tell can't we kick out C based on possessive + gerund reasoning....if no....then kindly tell where is flaw in my reasoning for the same.
Many thanks
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