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by soumyopriyosaha » Sun Mar 07, 2010 3:33 am
For most consumers, the price of automobile insurance continues to rise annually, even if free of damage claims and moving violations.

(A) even if
(B) despite being
(C) even if they are
(D) although they may be
(E) even if remaining
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by bpgen » Sun Mar 07, 2010 4:12 am
Look out the sentence, it's missing object(pronoun) after 'even if' , Therefore correct answer to include pronoun is C or D
And to put more certainty, we could eliminate 'may be', so answer would be [spoiler]'C'[/spoiler]
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by kstv » Sun Mar 07, 2010 5:18 am
Good Q and =ly good answer.
B just sounded right.
But there are two errors. Always be suspicious of being in GMAT and also missing Pronoun as pointed out by bggen.
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by girish3131 » Sun Mar 07, 2010 5:28 am
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by Shawshank » Sun Mar 07, 2010 6:06 am
My take would be "C".

Discarding "B" as "being" is present.
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by gmatmachoman » Sun Mar 07, 2010 6:54 am
soumyopriyosaha wrote:For most consumers, the price of automobile insurance continues to rise annually, even if free of damage claims and moving violations.

(A) even if
(B) despite being
(C) even if they are
(D) although they may be
(E) even if remaining
I tried to rebuild the sentence like this:

For most consumers,even if they are free of damage claims and moving violations, the price of automobile insurance continues to rise annually.

"they " properly refer back to consumers & also close to it!!

IMO C
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by soumyopriyosaha » Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:16 am
OA is C. thanks for the explanation.
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