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by ayushiiitm » Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:20 pm
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Why is B the correct answer and not A? We are describing the attributes of a town and I think we should use "Which" and not Where.
where is modifying the towns here and where should be used for places on GMAT
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by pradeepkaushal9518 » Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:23 pm
no which is not correct u require in with which. option E has but it has an error "are"

where is correct

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by pradeepkaushal9518 » Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:23 pm
no which is not correct u require in with which. option E has but it has an error "are"

where is correct

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by reply2spg » Mon Jul 19, 2010 3:34 pm
B is correct. What is book?
vijaynarayanan wrote:Image

Why is B the correct answer and not A? We are describing the attributes of a town and I think we should use "Which" and not Where.
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by adi_800 » Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:15 am
B is wrong.
I donno what the source is, But I am still saying B is wrong.
B misses the comma that should be present to complete the non essential modifier that starts after towns.
In fact original option has comma but no comma is present in option A.

Put in a comma in B and option B would be correct. Else B is fragment.

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by frank1 » Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:36 am
i would go with B
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by diebeatsthegmat » Mon Aug 09, 2010 12:18 am
vijaynarayanan wrote:Image

Why is B the correct answer and not A? We are describing the attributes of a town and I think we should use "Which" and not Where.
the answer A is incorrect because it use " has" behind which. which is the replacement of " the cities/towns" thus its verb/auxiliary verb must be "have"
we eliminate B, C, E because of " are" it uses. "are" should be " is" because the subject in this ST is " list/ a list of... "

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