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by Stendulkar » Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:14 am
" persistent" in the underlined statement needs to be parallel with " So dogged". Only option E has that...
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by atulmangal » Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:59 am
Chaitanya_1986 wrote:Could any one explain the following attached Sc.


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Buddy i post this same question a few weeks back and that includes a long discussion with experet David...search that in SC thread...that may help u
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by Chaitanya_1986 » Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:02 am
Oh...i missed it then...Thanks for the reminder dude.....
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by atulmangal » Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:08 am
Chaitanya_1986 wrote:Oh...i missed it then...Thanks for the reminder dude.....
David said it is an unusual question and some of my doubts are still uncleared in this question as u can see in that post....i can't forget this question...i wish such Q will not appear in GMAT...

The people who suggest a parallelism thing in OA should consider that they are talking about parallelism b/w a clause and a phrase......just think, is that really needed...a parallelism b/w a phrase and a clause...
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by Stendulkar » Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:57 am
Atul....too lazy to look around for your previous post (long day at work + this damned sentence correction) so would prefer to discuss here....

Without going into technicalities, the sentence starts with " So" and therefore we are looking for a " So....that" formation. Anything without this formation will sound wrong for this question....

Only options C and E have this formation. In C, " So dogged were Francis Perkins' investigations of the garment industry, her lobbying for wage and hour reform persistent, that....." is grammatically incorrect. Though Option E isnt the best option there is, others are blatantly wrong...
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by Stendulkar » Wed Apr 27, 2011 10:59 am
Atul....too lazy to look around for your previous post (long day at work + this damned sentence correction) so would prefer to discuss here....

Without going into technicalities, the sentence starts with " So" and therefore we are looking for a " So....that" formation. Anything without this formation will sound wrong for this question....

Only options C and E have this formation. In C, " So dogged were Francis Perkins' investigations of the garment industry, her lobbying for wage and hour reform persistent, that....." is grammatically incorrect. Though Option E isnt the best option there is, others are blatantly wrong...
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by atulmangal » Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:07 am
@Stendulkar
the sentence starts with " So" and therefore we are looking for a " So....that" formation. Anything without this formation will sound wrong for this question....

Only options C and E have this formation. In C, " So dogged were Francis Perkins' investigations of the garment industry, her lobbying for wage and hour reform persistent, that....." is grammatically incorrect. Though Option E isnt the best option there is, others are blatantly wrong...
The part in Bold is important....and i understand Op E is the only best Op
my point was related to technical issue...and i still believe that if someone pick Op E because of parallelism (so + clause , so + phrase) then that's not correct...

So...THAT...parallelism is good and important--> no issue with that.
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by GMATMadeEasy » Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:42 pm
@atulmangal : Could you give me the link to David's post ? I could not find it.
my point was related to technical issue...and i still believe that if someone pick Op E because of parallelism (so + clause , so + phrase) then that's not correct...
"so persistent her lobbying"
may be there is ellipsis here , but we should certainly confirm with the experts.

so persistent WAS her lobbying
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by pemdas » Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:17 pm
guys sorry to beak through the discussion in this thread, BUT i think (my view) NOTHING is unusual here, except for missing part/word in the sentence ('of' part). There is only one pattern here 'So ... That', and no parallelism is involved. The issue is that we are having two 'so' one for the cause -effect 'So ... That' and one for the emphasized meaning 'so'='very' -> So dogged were Frances Perkin's investigations of the garment industry, very (so) persistent of her lobbying for wage and hour reform, that ...
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by atulmangal » Wed Apr 27, 2011 8:17 pm
GMATMadeEasy wrote:@atulmangal : Could you give me the link to David's post ? I could not find it.
my point was related to technical issue...and i still believe that if someone pick Op E because of parallelism (so + clause , so + phrase) then that's not correct...
"so persistent her lobbying"
may be there is ellipsis here , but we should certainly confirm with the experts.

so persistent WAS her lobbying
Here is the link, check out David replies

https://www.beatthegmat.com/so-dogged-we ... 80892.html
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