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by komal » Thu Feb 11, 2010 6:04 am
The original building and loan associations were organized as limited life funds, whose members made monthly payments on their share subscriptions, then taking turns drawing on the funds for home mortgages.

(A) subscriptions, then taking turns drawing

(B) subscriptions, and then taking turns drawing

(C) subscriptions and then took turns drawing

(0) subscriptions and then took turns, they drew

(E) subscriptions and then drew, taking turns

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by hrishi19884 » Thu Feb 11, 2010 6:08 am
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"made payments" and "took turns" should be parallel.
That is only in C
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by thephoenix » Thu Feb 11, 2010 6:12 am
komal wrote:The original building and loan associations were organized as limited life funds, whose members made monthly payments on their share subscriptions, then taking turns drawing on the funds for home mortgages.

non underline part contains made (past) and underline changes that tense ...not reqd...
hence A,B,E out

(C) subscriptions and then took turns drawing
correct

(0) subscriptions and then took turns, they drew
they has amiguity in refernce..+ changes meaning

(E) subscriptions and then drew, taking turns
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by mgmt_gmat » Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:03 am
made payments and took turns... parallelism. Hence between

(C) subscriptions and then took turns drawing

(0) subscriptions and then took turns, they drew

D starts new clause " they drew"... which is wrong here...

Only C uses correct form took turns drawing on the firm.
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by money9111 » Thu Feb 11, 2010 8:56 pm
C C C - i had to read this one twice because I was like "this is too easy" so 30 seconds
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by sumanr84 » Thu Feb 11, 2010 9:01 pm
IMO : C (34 secs)

Clearly, simple tense problem ( 300 - 500 level )
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by bhumika.k.shah » Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:31 pm
Hope this helps :)
komal wrote:The original building and loan associations were organized as limited life funds, whose members made monthly payments on their share subscriptions, then taking turns drawing on the funds for home mortgages.

(A) subscriptions, then taking turns drawing - NOT PARALLEL .made ....taking...ELIMINATE

(B) subscriptions, and then taking turns drawing - NOT PARALLEL .made ....taking...ELIMINATE

(C) subscriptions and then took turns drawing [b]-CORRECT - made ...took... [/b]

(0) subscriptions and then took turns, they drew - they starts a new clause. ELIMINATE

(E) subscriptions and then drew, taking turns - NOT PARALLEL .made ....taking...ELIMINATE

OA [spoiler](C)[/spoiler]
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by conquistador » Sun Sep 13, 2015 7:15 am
I got confused between options C and E.
In terms of meaning someone please explain the difference between those options.
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