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by champmag » Thu May 26, 2011 2:54 am
For smaller retailers and Web sites, which pay regular mail rates and may be shipping
from only one location, free shipping is not nearly as affordable and often must
be added
into prices

A. which pay regular mail rates and may be shipping from only one location, free
shipping is not nearly as affordable and often must
B. that pay regular mail rates and may ship from only one location, free shipping
is not nearly as affordable and often must
C. who pay regular mail rates and may ship from only one location, free shipping
is not nearly so affordable and it often must
D. which pays regular mail rates and may ship from only one location, free
shipping is not as nearly affordable and often must
E. which pay regular mail rates and may ship from only one location,
free shipping is not nearly as affordable and often must
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by vineeshp » Thu May 26, 2011 3:53 am
Really tough one for me, champ. I am not able to rule out any except for D. :-(
I think A is also wrong.

Between B,C and E. I am confused. B also can be ruled out for the use of that I guess.

Now it is between C and E.

In C I am not sure about the use of who. Also I think the introduction of it as a subject is unnecessary as the clause is already parallel.

So let me just mark E and go. :(
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by HSPA » Thu May 26, 2011 4:22 am
champmag wrote:For smaller retailers and Web sites, which pay regular mail rates and may be shipping
from only one location, free shipping is not nearly as affordable and often must
be added
into prices

A. which pay regular mail rates and may be shipping from only one location, free
shipping is not nearly as affordable and often must
B. that pay regular mail rates and may ship from only one location, free shipping
is not nearly as affordable and often must
C. who pay regular mail rates and may ship from only one location, free shipping
is not nearly so affordable and it often must
D. which pays regular mail rates and may ship from only one location, free
shipping is not as nearly affordable and often must
E. which pay regular mail rates and may ship from only one location,
free shipping is not nearly as affordable and often must
+1 for E
Initally retailers made me choose C but I found websites and thought B and E are the only contenders
because websites - pay - plural + pay and ship shall be parallel
HI Vinesh.. How did you overcome B..
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by atulmangal » Thu May 26, 2011 4:36 am
IMO E,

IMO, Best way to solve this Q

Op A: -- Parallelism Error

Op B:-- COMMA + THAT always wrong

Op C:-- Pronoun WHO can not refer to "Web sites", it refers to persons not things

Op D:-- Sub-Verb Agreement error

Hence Op E, correct

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by BellTheGMAT » Thu May 26, 2011 5:15 am
tough one!!!
IMO - E... OA plz

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by sameerballani » Thu May 26, 2011 5:28 am
champmag wrote:For smaller retailers and Web sites, which pay regular mail rates and may be shipping
from only one location, free shipping is not nearly as affordable and often must
be added
into prices

A. which pay regular mail rates and may be shipping from only one location, free
shipping is not nearly as affordable and often must
B. that pay regular mail rates and may ship from only one location, free shipping
is not nearly as affordable and often must
C. who pay regular mail rates and may ship from only one location, free shipping
is not nearly so affordable and it often must
D. which pays regular mail rates and may ship from only one location, free
shipping is not as nearly affordable and often must
E. which pay regular mail rates and may ship from only one location,
free shipping is not nearly as affordable and often must
IMO E

I am sort of sure with the usage of WHICH and PAY.
SO between option A and E.
Option A has parallelism issue.
I feel Option E is better.

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by vineeshp » Thu May 26, 2011 5:58 am
HSPA wrote:
champmag wrote:For smaller retailers and Web sites, which pay regular mail rates and may be shipping
from only one location, free shipping is not nearly as affordable and often must
be added
into prices

A. which pay regular mail rates and may be shipping from only one location, free
shipping is not nearly as affordable and often must
B. that pay regular mail rates and may ship from only one location, free shipping
is not nearly as affordable and often must
C. who pay regular mail rates and may ship from only one location, free shipping
is not nearly so affordable and it often must
D. which pays regular mail rates and may ship from only one location, free
shipping is not as nearly affordable and often must
E. which pay regular mail rates and may ship from only one location,
free shipping is not nearly as affordable and often must
+1 for E
Initally retailers made me choose C but I found websites and thought B and E are the only contenders
because websites - pay - plural + pay and ship shall be parallel
HI Vinesh.. How did you overcome B..
Hey. Well I struggled. But then I went by the basic rule comma and which for non essential modifier. Here you have that and a comma, which is outside the underlined portion. Hence ruled it out.
Vineesh,
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