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by bhumika.k.shah » Wed Feb 03, 2010 11:59 pm
Obtaining an investment-grade rating will keep the county's future borrowing costs low, protect its already-tattered image, and increase its ability to buy bond insurance.

(A) Obtaining an investment-grade rating will keep the county's future borrowing costs low, protect
(B) To obtain an investment-grade rating will keep the county's future borrowing costs low, and protect
(C) Having obtained an investment-grade rating will, in keeping the county's future borrowing costs low, protect
(D) To obtain an investment-grade rating would keep the county's future borrowing costs low, protecting
(E) Obtaining an investment-grade rating, keeping the county's borrowing costs low, would be protecting
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by bhumika.k.shah » Thu Feb 04, 2010 12:06 am
What is the concept tested here. Obviously parallelism...but what else besides it.
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by thephoenix » Thu Feb 04, 2010 12:07 am
imo A

b) changes meaning
c) changes meaning original is hypothesizing
d) changes meaning...infinitive phrase is not parallel rest
e)s/c is future wud---past
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by thephoenix » Thu Feb 04, 2010 12:09 am
bhumika.k.shah wrote:What is the concept tested here. Obviously parallelism...but what else besides it.
the s/c is mainly testing the concept of gerund vs infinitve vs participle form of verb.....
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by bhumika.k.shah » Thu Feb 04, 2010 6:19 am
Yes the OA is A indeed .
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by sumanr84 » Mon Jul 19, 2010 11:10 am
bhumika.k.shah wrote:Obtaining an investment-grade rating will keep the county's future borrowing costs low, protect its already-tattered image, and increase its ability to buy bond insurance.

(A) Obtaining an investment-grade rating will keep the county's future borrowing costs low, protect
Verb Tense and ||ism are tested here.
OA : A (OG Verbal Review Guide )
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by uwhusky » Mon Jul 26, 2010 9:05 am
More so, this question is testing you to recognize a not-so-obvious list and to understand the usage of a participle modifier, which is incorrectly used in one of the answers.

Another thing is that in many questions on GMAT a sentence starting with a verb ends in -ING phrase is typically a participle modifier modifying the subject of the subsequent clause, but in this case, the gerund phrase is simply a noun phrase acting as the subject of the clause.
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by reply2spg » Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:27 am
A is correct here.

we need 'protect' in end. 3/2 split. D and E out.

C is out because of passive voice.

B is out becuase it starts with 'To'. Whenever, sentence starts with infinitive replace infinitive with 'in order to'.Here if I replace 'infinitive' by 'in order to' then sentence will be as follows

In order to obtain an investment-grade rating will keep the county's future borrowing costs low, and protect its already-tattered image, and increase its ability to buy bond insurance.

Sentence does not make any sence. Therefore, A is correct. Obtaining is working as a gerund here.
bhumika.k.shah wrote:Obtaining an investment-grade rating will keep the county's future borrowing costs low, protect its already-tattered image, and increase its ability to buy bond insurance.

(A) Obtaining an investment-grade rating will keep the county's future borrowing costs low, protect
(B) To obtain an investment-grade rating will keep the county's future borrowing costs low, and protect
(C) Having obtained an investment-grade rating will, in keeping the county's future borrowing costs low, protect
(D) To obtain an investment-grade rating would keep the county's future borrowing costs low, protecting
(E) Obtaining an investment-grade rating, keeping the county's borrowing costs low, would be protecting
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by GMATMadeEasy » Wed Aug 18, 2010 2:23 pm
Question: Obtaining an investment-grade rating will keep the county's future borrowing costs low, protect its already-tattered image, and increase its ability to buy bond insurance.

(C) Having obtained an investment-grade rating will, in keeping the county's future borrowing costs low, protect


Could we say that its has no antecedent ? Why ? Its should logically refer to country but in option C , we have county's future but no where country . Is it appropriate to eliminate it based on this reasoning as well ?
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by e-GMAT » Wed Aug 18, 2010 11:45 pm
The use of pronoun "its" is correct here since both occurrences of "its" are in possessive case and a pronoun in possessive case can very much refer to pronoun in possessive case.

The other error in Choice C is the awkward construction due to two things:
1: The verb has been split in half will, ..., protect. This results in a very awkward structure.
2: The use of passive voice is not appropriate in this sentence.

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by paes » Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:19 am
e-GMAT wrote:You are correct GmatMadeEasy.

Choice C has 1 grammatical error as pointed out by you. The pronoun "its" has no logical antecedent since "county" is also written as "county's" and hence the word "county" does not appear anywhere in the sentence.

The other error in Choice C is the awkward construction due to two things:
1: The verb has been split in half will, ..., protect. This results in a very awkward structure.
2: The use of passive voice is not appropriate in this sentence.

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I don't agree here.
its has a proper antecedent : country.
country's future : possessive case.
here using possessive case 'its' for country is fine. Using subject/object case 'it' for country is wrong. --> From MgMat

Anyway C is wrong as you mentioned the points 1, 2
Also usage of 'having' is not looking good to me.
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by kvcpk » Thu Aug 19, 2010 3:08 am
Agree with Paes.

Possessive pronoun should be able to refer to a possessive noun.

India's rich tradition is its primary asset.

I dotn see anything wrong with this sentence.
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by e-GMAT » Thu Aug 19, 2010 5:09 am
Thanks for pointing out my error paes and kvcpk. I stand corrected...I will correct my post accordingly. Sorry about the confusion...

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