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by pradeepkaushal9518 » Thu Sep 23, 2010 12:12 am
In the late fifteenth century, according to many historians, the growth of an increasingly powerful mercantile class led to the emergence of economic nationalism in Europe, which, causing cultural and academic advances, mark the end of the period known as the Dark Ages.

A which, causing cultural and academic advances, mark
B causing cultural and academic advances, it marks
C and causing cultural and academic advances that mark
D an ideology that caused the cultural and academic advances, and it had marked
E an ideology that caused the cultural and academic advances that mark
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by GMAT Hacker » Thu Sep 23, 2010 3:57 am
pradeepkaushal9518 wrote:In the late fifteenth century, according to many historians, the growth of an increasingly powerful mercantile class led to the emergence of economic nationalism in Europe, which, causing cultural and academic advances, mark the end of the period known as the Dark Ages.

A which, causing cultural and academic advances, mark
B causing cultural and academic advances, it marks
C and causing cultural and academic advances that mark
D an ideology that caused the cultural and academic advances, and it had marked
E an ideology that caused the cultural and academic advances that mark


IMO E
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by reply2spg » Thu Sep 23, 2010 3:57 am
IMO C, B was close but 'it' is ambiguous
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by ansh.kumar » Thu Sep 23, 2010 7:43 am
HI , IMO IT,S "C"
"b" IS A RUN-ON SENTENCE.
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by niksworth » Thu Sep 23, 2010 8:41 am
IMO E.

C has 2 issues -

Strip to the core of the sentence - The growth of ... mercantile class...led to X, and causing Y.

1. and causing Y is not in sync with the rest of the sentence. It breaks parallelism.
2. Use of and is inappropriate - Y was caused by X; a causal relationship needs to be established.

E corrects this using the following construction -
The growth of ... mercantile class...led to X, an ideology that caused Y.
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by anantbhatia » Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:28 am
Is it [spoiler](E)[/spoiler]
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by reply2spg » Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:07 am
I think England can not be an ideology. D and E have modification issue
niksworth wrote:IMO E.

C has 2 issues -

Strip to the core of the sentence - The growth of ... mercantile class...led to X, and causing Y.

1. and causing Y is not in sync with the rest of the sentence. It breaks parallelism.
2. Use of and is inappropriate - Y was caused by X; a causal relationship needs to be established.

E corrects this using the following construction -
The growth of ... mercantile class...led to X, an ideology that caused Y.
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by niksworth » Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:17 am
reply2spg wrote:I think England can not be an ideology. D and E have modification issue
I guess you meant Europe.

No, it can't. The ideology is economic nationalism. This is one of those cases where the modifier does not touch the noun.
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by beatthegmatinsept » Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:26 am
One more for C.
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by uwhusky » Thu Sep 23, 2010 11:10 am
I'll go for E as well. I think the conjunction used in C is incorrect, and incorrectly using "causing" as a verb when it is a verbal.

B is more correct than C in that aspect, but the rest of B is definitely incorrect.

"an ideology" is referring to economic nationalism in Europe, and seems to be the only choice without violating grammar errors.
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by mundasingh123 » Thu Sep 23, 2010 1:31 pm
In the late fifteenth century, according to many historians, the growth of an increasingly powerful mercantile class led to the emergence of economic nationalism in Europe, which, causing cultural and academic advances, mark the end of the period known as the Dark Ages.

A which, causing cultural and academic advances, mark
B causing cultural and academic advances, it marks
C and causing cultural and academic advances that mark
D an ideology that caused the cultural and academic advances, and it had marked
E an ideology that caused the cultural and academic advances that mark

A)Misplaced modifier for relative pronoun which
B)"it" is ambiguous
C)No parallelism
D)no paralelism and ambiguous pronoun it
E)correct
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by reply2spg » Thu Sep 23, 2010 5:38 pm
Oh sorry about that. I meant Europe.

I am getting what you are saying in your earlier post. It would be nice if you elaborate what you saying about red part in your post.
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reply2spg wrote:I think England can not be an ideology. D and E have modification issue
I guess you meant Europe.

No, it can't. The ideology is economic nationalism. This is one of those cases where the modifier does not touch the noun.
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by pradeepkaushal9518 » Thu Sep 23, 2010 8:27 pm
right now i dont have the oa for this. any expert can tell or else you have to wait
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by uwhusky » Thu Sep 23, 2010 9:38 pm
uwhusky wrote:I'll go for E as well. I think the conjunction used in C is incorrect, and incorrectly using "causing" as a verb when it is a verbal.

B is more correct than C in that aspect, but the rest of B is definitely incorrect.

"an ideology" is referring to economic nationalism in Europe, and seems to be the only choice without violating grammar errors.
LOL, I just noticed I violated the same error as the one I was pointing out.
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by psychomath » Thu Sep 23, 2010 10:07 pm
I ll go with E....Was down to B and E....There is no continuity in B, hence E
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