Yes.RBBmba@2014 wrote:Hi GMATGuru - Is it ALWAYS TRUE in GMAT ?GMATGuruNY wrote: In C, provided and milking are not parallel. A conjunction such as and must connect PARALLEL FORMS. Eliminate C.
For the following official SC, I think it's not applicable -
Scientists have recently discovered what could be the largest and oldest living organism on Earth, a giant fungus that is an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and rootlike tentacles spawned by a single fertilized spore some 10,000 years ago and extending for more than 30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest.
In the above SC, conjunction and doesn't connect PARALLEL FORMS but rather connects two non-PARALLEL modifiers spawned & extending and this structure is correct. Right ?
Please clarify.
A conjunction such as and MUST serve to connect parallel forms:
MODIFIER and MODIFIER
VERB and VERB
NOUN and NOUN.
SC42 in the OG12: tentacles spawned by a single fertilized spore and extending for more than 30 acres.
Red phrase:
spawned = ADJECTIVE modifying TENTACLES.
by a single fertilized spore = ADVERB modifying spawned.
Blue phrase:
extending = ADJECTIVE modifying TENTACLES.
for more than 30 acres = ADVERB modifying extending.
Here, both phrases are composed of ADJECTIVE + ADVERB and serve to modify the SAME NOUN (tentacles).
Thus, two phrases constitute PARALLEL FORMS.
In my post above, I've fleshed out the reason for eliminating C:
A conjunction such as and must serve to connect PARALLEL FORMS: forms that provide the SAME FUNCTION.
C: For the farmer who takes care to keep them cool, provided with high-energy feed, and milking them regularly...
Here, the parallel forms in red imply the following meaning:
For the farmer who takes care to keep the cows cool, to keep the cows provided with high-energy feed, and to keep the cows milking the cows regularly...
The phrase in blue is nonsensical.
Eliminate C.
Last edited by GMATGuruNY on Tue Jun 02, 2015 6:50 am, edited 1 time in total.
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