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by tohellandback » Thu Jul 09, 2009 7:51 pm
The decision by one of the nation’s largest banks to admit to $3 billion in potential losses on foreign loans could mean less lending by commercial banks to developing countries and increasing the pressure on multi government lenders to supply the funds.

(A) increasing the pressure

(B) the increasing pressure

(C) increased pressure

(D) the pressure increased

(E) the pressure increasing

I understand the OA. My question is why not B. It does maintain parallelism.
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by mooreliberty » Thu Jul 09, 2009 8:45 pm
tohellandback wrote:The decision by one of the nation’s largest banks to admit to $3 billion in potential losses on foreign loans could mean less lending by commercial banks to developing countries and increasing the pressure on multi government lenders to supply the funds.

(A) increasing the pressure

(B) the increasing pressure

(C) increased pressure

(D) the pressure increased

(E) the pressure increasing

I understand the OA. My question is why not B. It does maintain parallelism.
IMO - B is wrong b/c "could mean...the increasing pressure" just doesn't work. "could mean ... increased pressure" works in the same way "could mean less lending" works and "the lessening lending" does not.
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by shilpi84 » Thu Jul 09, 2009 8:55 pm
tohellandback wrote:The decision by one of the nation’s largest banks to admit to $3 billion in potential losses on foreign loans could mean less lending by commercial banks to developing countries and increasing the pressure on multi government lenders to supply the funds.

(A) increasing the pressure

(B) the increasing pressure

(C) increased pressure

(D) the pressure increased

(E) the pressure increasing

I understand the OA. My question is why not B. It does maintain parallelism.
In option B 'the increasing' is a gerund hence it is not acting as an adjective for pressure.We require an adjective here.Thus we will use 'increased pressure' where increased is an adjective.
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by PAB2706 » Thu Jul 09, 2009 8:56 pm
IMO C

Bcos the past participle increased and the present participle lending also form a parallel structure....

B sounds awkward
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by madhur_ahuja » Thu Jul 09, 2009 9:12 pm
shilpi84 wrote:
tohellandback wrote:The decision by one of the nation’s largest banks to admit to $3 billion in potential losses on foreign loans could mean less lending by commercial banks to developing countries and increasing the pressure on multi government lenders to supply the funds.

(A) increasing the pressure

(B) the increasing pressure

(C) increased pressure

(D) the pressure increased

(E) the pressure increasing

I understand the OA. My question is why not B. It does maintain parallelism.
In option B 'the increasing' is a gerund hence it is not acting as an adjective for pressure.We require an adjective here.Thus we will use 'increased pressure' where increased is an adjective.
Agree with this. You need to have adjective to modify pressure.
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by amazonviper » Fri Jul 10, 2009 12:38 pm
tohellandback wrote:The decision by one of the nation’s largest banks to admit to $3 billion in potential losses on foreign loans could mean less lending by commercial banks to developing countries and increasing the pressure on multi government lenders to supply the funds.

(A) increasing the pressure

(B) the increasing pressure

(C) increased pressure

(D) the pressure increased

(E) the pressure increasing

I understand the OA. My question is why not B. It does maintain parallelism.
IMO C. B should be incorrect since we have could mean in the passage which is a speculation about the future. C address this necessity and hence should be the answer.

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