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by kv_ajay » Sat Oct 18, 2008 3:33 pm
According to some botanists, invasive plants are the second most serious threat, after habitat loss, to native species of plants and animals and to the maintenance of biologically diverse ecosystems.
A. threat, after habitat loss, to native species of plants and animals and to the
maintenance of biologically diverse ecosystems
B. threat, after habitat loss, to native species of plants and animals and for
maintaining biologically diverse ecosystems
C. threat, after losing their habitat, to native species of plants and animals and
also to maintenance of biologically diverse ecosystems
D. threat to native species of plants and animals and for maintaining biologically
diverse ecosystems, after habitat loss
E. threat to native species of plants and animals as well as to maintaining
biologically diverse ecosystems, after losing their habitat
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by Jatinder » Sat Oct 18, 2008 7:39 pm
Its b/w A and B
I reckon B as it makes the meaning clear.
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by Bidisha800 » Sat Oct 18, 2008 8:48 pm
(A)
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by Bidisha800 » Sat Oct 18, 2008 8:56 pm
Is it possible for anybody to share these question sets ?
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by Mani_mba » Sat Oct 18, 2008 9:57 pm
IMO A.

A maintains parallelism.
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by stubbornp » Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:23 pm
imo A
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by raunekk » Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:24 pm
A for me too,,,

parallelism,,,
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by codesnooker » Sat Oct 18, 2008 11:18 pm
IMO (A).

Though I didn't find anything logically wrong with option (B) but will go for (A) just because of Parallelism.
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by stop@800 » Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:06 am
I think B is also parallel
threat to plants
and
threat for maintaining

to and for both are prepositions.

Please suggest
Is my reasoning correct?

I went with A bcoz
"threat to" is correct usage and "threat for is not"
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by nervesofsteel » Sun Oct 19, 2008 10:30 am
A for me too..

parallelism
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by kv_ajay » Sun Oct 19, 2008 1:23 pm
OA is A..

I agree to explanation..

to navtive species of plant...and to the maintenance...

i thought to the maintenance is not correct...
and for the maintaining sounds...

but i guess i was wrong..
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by rohangupta83 » Tue Oct 21, 2008 2:38 am
(A)
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by sudeep_ar » Tue Oct 21, 2008 2:33 pm
..A
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by ssgmatter » Thu Jun 03, 2010 8:40 am
I think b is the correct one here
Best-
Amit
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by gmatmachoman » Thu Jun 03, 2010 10:40 am
ssgmatter wrote:I think b is the correct one here
Phil Bhai,

IMO A makes sense.

According to some botanists, invasive plants are the second most serious threat, after habitat loss, to native species of plants and animals and to the maintenance of biologically diverse ecosystems.

Parallelism is maintained after & before "and".(Look at the italics part).

In B

threat, after habitat loss, to native species of plants and animals and for
maintaining biologically diverse ecosystems


No parallelism Maintained.

I suggest you to always look for parallelism & comparison errors in GMAT real SC questions. Becox GMAC loves them so much. Even in OG, you see how much GMAC loves Comaprison & parallelism.!!
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