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by gmat740 » Mon Jun 15, 2009 7:52 am
Although he is as gifted as, if not more gifted than, many of his colleagues, he is extremely modest and his poetry is unpublished.
(A) Although he is as gifted as, if not more gifted than, many of his colleagues, he is extremely modest and his poetry is unpublished.
(B) Although he is as gifted, if not more gifted, than many of his colleagues, he is extremely modest and with his poetry remaining unpublished.
(C) Although he is as gifted as, if not more gifted than, many of his colleagues, he is extremely modest and will not publish his poetry.
(D) Despite his being gifted, if not more gifted than his colleagues, he is extremely modest and will not publish his poetry.
(E) Being a gifted as, or more gifted than, many of his colleagues, he is extremely modest and his poetry is unpublished

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by rahulg83 » Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:25 am
C is far better than A..
we are starting a sentence with Although to make a contrast..both parts should be matched i.e. Although he is X, he will not do y and z.
"his poetry is unpublished'' unnecessarily uses possessive pronoun which is not required
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by Domnu » Mon Jun 15, 2009 4:01 pm
The fact that he is modest implies that he wouldn't try and publish his own poetry, so C is better.
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by agautam » Tue Nov 29, 2011 7:38 pm
I believe the reason for C to be better than A is that in A active voice is being made parellel to the passive voice, which is not correct
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by amit2k9 » Tue Nov 29, 2011 8:52 pm
gmat740 wrote:Although he is as gifted as, if not more gifted than, many of his colleagues, he is extremely modest and his poetry is unpublished.

(A) Although he is as gifted as, if not more gifted than, many of his colleagues, he is extremely modest and his poetry is unpublished. -- parallelism between he is and his is wrong.POE.

(B) Although he is as gifted, if not more gifted, than many of his colleagues, he is extremely modest and with his poetry remaining unpublished. -- Parallelism issue between is and with his.More so, remove the ,if not .., and see that as gifted ..than is not the correct idiom. POE.

(C) Although he is as gifted as, if not more gifted than, many of his colleagues, he is extremely modest and will not publish his poetry.-- as .. as idiom correct. is ..will parallelism correct. OA.

(D) Despite his being gifted, if not more gifted than his colleagues, he is extremely modest and will not publish his poetry.-- Being usage redundant. POE.

(E) Being a gifted as, or more gifted than, many of his colleagues, he is extremely modest and his poetry is unpublished -- Parallelism issue is and his. being usage redundant. POE

[spoiler]IMO-A
OA-C[/spoiler]
Thus C it is.
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