Sentence Correction

22. In recent ears cattle breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding, in part that their steers should acquire certain characteristics and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor.

A)in part that their steers should acquire certain characteristics
B)in part for the acquisition of certain characteristics in their steers
C)partly because of their steers acquiring certain characteristics.
D)partly because certain characteristics should be acquired by their steers.
E)partly to acquire certain characteristics in their steers.


E is the answer.

[spoiler]How dose "partly to acquire..." parallels with "partly because crossbreeding..."[/spoiler]

Thanks in Advance!

Whats the answer in your opinion.
I agree that intially you will look for those answer choices having because as the latter sentence has because and that will make it parallel.
But Sentence C and D are not simple but wordy sentences.
Only E clearly makes a good sentence.

My pick was D). I agree that it is wordy, but to me it follows the rule of parallelism. However, seems to me that E) doesn't obey the parallelism rule, which is one of the most important rules in GMAT.

I am just wondering weather I fully understand the rule of parallelism. How strict is the rule of parallelism?

Do you all agree that answer E) makes the sentence grammatically correct? I didn't think so at the first place, but it is ETS's choice.

answer option D seems to be in passive voice. Also E is parallel

In recent years cattle breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding, partly to acquire certain characteristics in their steers and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor.

Hope this helps!

Thanks for all you your explanation! They help me a great deal.

Guys I am still confused
Take a look with Option D

In recent years cattle breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding,partly because certain characteristics should be acquired by their steers and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor.

And now Option E

In recent years cattle breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding,partly to acquire certain characteristics in their steers and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor.


So which parallelism GMAT Prefers and why?

gmat740 wrote:Guys I am still confused
Take a look with Option D

In recent years cattle breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding,partly because certain characteristics should be acquired by their steers and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor.

And now Option E

In recent years cattle breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding,partly to acquire certain characteristics in their steers and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor.


So which parallelism GMAT Prefers and why?

i think that option E is not parallel. I believe that here there is something to do with "should" in option D. I'm not sure but i mean that in D between the 2 parts highlighted, the first one put much stress that it should be acquired, but in option E, both the parts put somewhat equal stress and thus could be preferred over D. I think this could be a bad reasoning so experts, please elaborate on this some more!!

gmat740 wrote:Guys I am still confused
Take a look with Option D

In recent years cattle breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding,partly because certain characteristics should be acquired by their steers and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor.

And now Option E

In recent years cattle breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding,partly to acquire certain characteristics in their steers and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor.


So which parallelism GMAT Prefers and why?

Option D changed the meaning of the sentence. The use of word should suggests that " they are doing crossbreeding and the cattle should definitely acquire the characteristics." don't you think that this is distorting the meaning of the Sentence.

Coming to option E parallelism(though what is given need not be ideally right its relatively acceptable) .Look at the sentence this way

"In recent years cattle breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding,partly because crossbreeding is said to acquire certain characteristics in their steers and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor.

Dropping out that bold phrase doesn't harm much when compared to altered intent problem in D.

why "for acquisition" is wrong in B

duongthang wrote:why "for acquisition" is wrong in B

B i opted out because of presence of ' in part' .

hemanth28 wrote:

gmat740 wrote:Guys I am still confused
Take a look with Option D

In recent years cattle breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding,partly because certain characteristics should be acquired by their steers and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor.

And now Option E

In recent years cattle breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding,partly to acquire certain characteristics in their steers and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor.


So which parallelism GMAT Prefers and why?

Option D changed the meaning of the sentence. The use of word should suggests that " they are doing crossbreeding and the cattle should definitely acquire the characteristics." don't you think that this is distorting the meaning of the Sentence.

Coming to option E parallelism(though what is given need not be ideally right its relatively acceptable) .Look at the sentence this way

"In recent years cattle breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding,partly because crossbreeding is said to acquire certain characteristics in their steers and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor.

Dropping out that bold phrase doesn't harm much when compared to altered intent problem in D.

i do not think the sentence is : partly because crossbreedind is said to acquire certain charactiristics in their steers. I think the problem is on "should"

At first glance we can eliminate A,B wanting "partly " to be parallel.
C>>out>Passive voice.

Between D and E.
In recent years cattle breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding,partly because certain characteristics should be acquired by their steers and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor.

In recent years cattle breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding,partly to acquire certain characteristics in their steers and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor.

How do we know that only PARTLY has to be parallel and not PARTLY BECAUSE?
How do we know TO ACQUIRE has to be parallel to TO PROVIDE?

Jinger wrote:22. In recent ears cattle breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding, in part that their steers should acquire certain characteristics and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor.

A)in part that their steers should acquire certain characteristics
B)in part for the acquisition of certain characteristics in their steers
C)partly because of their steers acquiring certain characteristics.
D)partly because certain characteristics should be acquired by their steers.
E)partly to acquire certain characteristics in their steers.


E is the answer.

How dose "partly to acquire..." parallels with "partly because crossbreeding..."

Thanks in Advance!

This is really a tricky question that involves Parallism. By reading the orginal sentence, we can easily eliminate A and D because both A and D are not parallel.

We have C, D, and E.

In the non-underlined part "and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor" the second reason is "to provide hybrid vigor".

Therefore in the first part, we have follow the same rule..." to + verb".

E fulfill that expectation. Therefore E is the right answer.

E is absolutely right! Only "E" is parallel!
partly..... to acquire...... certain characteristics with........partly.... to provide.... hybrid vigor.

As much as possible, the verbs shld be parallel.

because partly and because partly is NOT parallel..... What is parallel here - they are just two connecting words with the same word following it.