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by Ankitaverma » Sun Nov 24, 2013 6:33 pm
As envisioned by researchers, commercial farming of lobsters will enable fisheries to sell the shellfish year-round, taking advantage of off-season demand, standardize its sizes and colors, and to predict sales volume in advance.
(A) taking advantage of off-season demand, standardize
(B) taking advantage of off-season demand, to standardize
(C) taking advantage of off-season demand, standardizing
(D) take advantage of off-season demand, standardizing
(E) take advantage of off-season demand, to standardize

Q/A-B why not e
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by [email protected] » Mon Nov 25, 2013 3:21 pm
Hi ankitaverma,

This SC comes down to 2 rules:

1) Parallelism: There is a 3-item list, so all 3 items need to be in the same "format." The first item "to sell", must be followed by 2 other phrases that begin with "to ___." Eliminate A, C and D.

2) Verbs: The "intent" of this sentence is to describe what commercial farming of lobsters WILL be like in the overall future (not just at one point in the future), so we're going to need a verb that accounts for more than one future event. An "-ing" verb works in this situation. Eliminate E.

Final Answer: B

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by theCodeToGMAT » Mon Nov 25, 2013 9:38 pm
The sentence structure is:

to sell..... , ..... , ....... , and to predict .....

In this, we can either fill all the forms as to+verb... to maintain parallelism.

Or, introduce adverbial modifier (verb+ing) at one place and to+verb in other

Only [spoiler]{B}[/spoiler] satisfies.
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