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buzzdeepak
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Since digital recording offers essentially perfect reproduction - on compact discs, digital audiotapes, or videodiscs - audiophiles can accumulate vast collections of music, transferring them from one format to another, copying it, and digitally altering it with little effort and not damaging the sound quality.
A. Same
B. music, transferring it from one format to another, copying it, and digitally altering it with little effort and no damage to
C. music, transferring them from one format to another, copy them, and digitally alter them with little effort and no damage to
D. music and transfer it from one format to another, copy it, and then digitally altering it with little effort and not damaging
E. music and transfer it from one format to another, copying it, and digitally alter it with little effort and no damage to
OA: B
The OE says the object is [spoiler]"music" and hence singular - it.[/spoiler]
So, its about parallelism and SV agreement.
Parallelism in this case is pretty straightforward, but struggled with SV agreement (got the answer right because it was the best choice amongst all)
Question:
1. When I read the sentence for the first time, I immediately thought the answer choices should include "them" and not "it". Why can't "vast collections of music" be the object which are being described by the series of participial phrases - transferring, copying and digitally altering - in which case the answer includes "them"?
2. If option C was "music, transferring them from one format to another, copying them, and digitally altering them with little effort and no damage to", would it be right? Also, could we have option B and this modified option C in the answer choices?
2. How to identify what the object is confidently in similar sentences that could show up on the GMAT and get them right?
Could someone please explain?
Thanks in advance
A. Same
B. music, transferring it from one format to another, copying it, and digitally altering it with little effort and no damage to
C. music, transferring them from one format to another, copy them, and digitally alter them with little effort and no damage to
D. music and transfer it from one format to another, copy it, and then digitally altering it with little effort and not damaging
E. music and transfer it from one format to another, copying it, and digitally alter it with little effort and no damage to
OA: B
The OE says the object is [spoiler]"music" and hence singular - it.[/spoiler]
So, its about parallelism and SV agreement.
Parallelism in this case is pretty straightforward, but struggled with SV agreement (got the answer right because it was the best choice amongst all)
Question:
1. When I read the sentence for the first time, I immediately thought the answer choices should include "them" and not "it". Why can't "vast collections of music" be the object which are being described by the series of participial phrases - transferring, copying and digitally altering - in which case the answer includes "them"?
2. If option C was "music, transferring them from one format to another, copying them, and digitally altering them with little effort and no damage to", would it be right? Also, could we have option B and this modified option C in the answer choices?
2. How to identify what the object is confidently in similar sentences that could show up on the GMAT and get them right?
Could someone please explain?
Thanks in advance
