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by aspirant2011 » Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:48 pm
Patience Lovell Wright, whose traveling waxworks exhibit preceded Madame Tussaud's work by 30 years, became well known as much because of having an eccentric personality as for having skillfully rendered popular public figures in wax.

(A) well known as much because of having an eccentric personality as for having skillfully rendered popular public figures in wax
(B) well known as much for having an eccentric personality as for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figures
(C) well known as much because of her eccentric personality as she was for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figures
(D) as well known for having an eccentric personality as having skillfully rendered popular public figures in wax
(E) as well known for her eccentric personality as for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figures

[spoiler]OA: Is B wrong because of for having an eccentric personality is not parallel to for her skillful wax renderings[/spoiler]
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by gmat25 » Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:56 pm
Ron's post:
choice b exhibits poor parallelism:
having an eccentric personality, a gerund phrase, is placed in parallel with skilful wax renderings..., a noun phrase.

choice e exhibits proper parallelism, in that both of the parallel items are noun phrases (the principal nouns being personality and renderings).
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By the way, from my experience i say, choices containing "having..." are always wrong.
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by aspirant2011 » Sat Jul 30, 2011 10:06 pm
gmat25 wrote:Ron's post:
choice b exhibits poor parallelism:
having an eccentric personality, a gerund phrase, is placed in parallel with skilful wax renderings..., a noun phrase.

choice e exhibits proper parallelism, in that both of the parallel items are noun phrases (the principal nouns being personality and renderings).
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By the way, from my experience i say, choices containing "having..." are always wrong.
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by Jim@Grockit » Sun Jul 31, 2011 11:19 pm
gmat25 wrote: By the way, from my experience i say, choices containing "having..." are always wrong.
Be suspicious of "having", but I would be careful of absolute statements like this -- "having" (and "being") are required in negative constructions, like "He completed his work without having to resort to shortcuts."
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by aspirant2011 » Mon Aug 01, 2011 5:43 am
Jim@Grockit wrote:
gmat25 wrote: By the way, from my experience i say, choices containing "having..." are always wrong.
Be suspicious of "having", but I would be careful of absolute statements like this -- "having" (and "being") are required in negative constructions, like "He completed his work without having to resort to shortcuts."
Hi Jim,

In option A I feel having is used in negative construction only i.e for the word eccentric personality........please clarify on the same
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by Jim@Grockit » Mon Aug 01, 2011 6:29 am
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Jim@Grockit wrote:
gmat25 wrote: By the way, from my experience i say, choices containing "having..." are always wrong.
Be suspicious of "having", but I would be careful of absolute statements like this -- "having" (and "being") are required in negative constructions, like "He completed his work without having to resort to shortcuts."
Hi Jim,

In option A I feel having is used in negative construction only i.e for the word eccentric personality........please clarify on the same
It's not a negative construction because there are no negating words in this particular sentence.

I forgot to mention that "being" and "having" will also be necessary when there literally is no noun form for the expression ("being clean"). Many of the GMAT "havings" that are wrong are simply added into phrases that can be grammatically correct without it.
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by need720+ » Mon Aug 01, 2011 7:30 am
IMO E
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by GmatKiss » Mon Aug 01, 2011 7:57 am
IMO: E
OA please!!
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by aspirant2011 » Mon Aug 01, 2011 8:01 am
Yup OA is E.....
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