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by chaitanya.mehrotra » Sat Aug 06, 2011 4:56 am
In commercial garment construction, one advantage of serging over single needle sewing is that the seam allowance is overcast as the seam is sewn instead of with a separate process requiring deeper seam allowances.

A) instead of with
B) rather than in
C) in contrast with
D) as opposed to
E) instead of

This looks quite easy, because it is short. However, I found that this is confusing. Why is option ~E wrong. Is instead of ONLY used to compare 2 nouns , and since here we are comparing 2 clauses it will not work ?

The correct Answer is B
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by GmatKiss » Sat Aug 06, 2011 5:26 am
E, changes the meaning as avoiding the seperate process. Hence eliminated!
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by Chaitanya_1986 » Sat Aug 06, 2011 9:09 am
Instead of is used for Nouns and rather than is used for Verbs

Also, instead of is used for making choices.....
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by prateek_guy2004 » Sat Aug 06, 2011 11:14 am
Even i thought its E.....But it can be C as well Why B.
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by Tani » Sat Aug 06, 2011 12:26 pm
You are comparing the two ways in which the seam is over cast. You need to make "as the seam is sewn" (a prepositional phrase) parallel to "a separate process". The latter then needs to be a prepositional phrase, hence "in a separate process".
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by force5 » Sat Aug 06, 2011 12:37 pm
yes you are comparing 2 processes here. its not "because of the separate process" ... its because of what happens in the separate process.

I really don't see a problem with "instead"(choice E). the reason why E is not preferred is because of the change in meaning here.
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by Tani » Sat Aug 06, 2011 12:55 pm
both "as the seam is sewn" and "in a separate process" need to modify overcast.
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