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by phoenix111 » Thu Oct 13, 2011 12:24 pm
I encountered below question as Sentence correction in GMAT Prep 1.
I easily eliminated the Original underlined part and other 2 options.
But got stuck with the remaining 2.

complete the sentence :

Some analysts expect automakers___________________________

1) to be more conservative than they have been in setting dividends.

2) to set dividends more conservatively than they have been.
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by mukgera » Thu Oct 13, 2011 9:06 pm
I think 2) would be answer..because of parallelism issue with 1)
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phoenix111 wrote:complete the sentence :

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1) to be more conservative than they have been in setting dividends.

2) to set dividends more conservatively than they have been.
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by GmatKiss » Fri Oct 14, 2011 6:36 am
phoenix111 wrote:I encountered below question as Sentence correction in GMAT Prep 1.
I easily eliminated the Original underlined part and other 2 options.
But got stuck with the remaining 2.

complete the sentence :

Some analysts expect automakers___________________________

1) to be more conservative than they have been in setting dividends.

2) to set dividends more conservatively than they have been.
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by aspirant2011 » Fri Oct 14, 2011 7:00 am
Yup I also feel 1) should be the right answer.........
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by phoenix111 » Fri Oct 14, 2011 8:23 am
Yes, the OA is 1

But how do I eliminate the wrong one???
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by Brian@VeritasPrep » Fri Oct 14, 2011 8:36 am
Hey guys,

Probably the most noticeable difference here is the placement of the pronoun "they". In option 1, "they" clearly refers back to automakers. But by option 2, "dividends" have been introduced to the sentence, too, so "they' could refer back to either "automakers" or "dividends". So #2 offers a pronoun issue that isn't a problem in #1.

On top of that, then, "they have been" in #2 gives you a verb ("have been") for which we don't really know whether it's "dividends are set more conservatively than they have been set" or "automakers will set dividends more conservatively than the automakers have been (setting them)".

#1 is clearer, putting "in setting dividends" there to further clarify that "they" refers to "automakers" (the dividends don't set themselves.
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by zaarathelab » Sat Oct 15, 2011 12:40 am
I totally agree with brian. I used the same logic to go for 1.
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