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kstv: Legendary Member; Posts: 610; Joined: Fri Jan 15, 2010 12:33 amFollowed by: 2 members; Thanked: 47 times

by kstv » Mon Apr 12, 2010 11:30 pm

Although most large public relations firms can afford to run information technology centers in-house, some niche firms are discovering that the cost associated with maintaining an information technology staff and from continuously improving hardware and software are larger than they initially estimated.

A) cost associated with
B) costs associated from
C) costs associated with
D) cost arising from
E) costs arising from

Feels there are two issues Parallelism and correct idiom. If so, is there a ranking order of the errors in GMAT ? Meaning , verb tense is more imp than Parallelism , Parallelism more imp than idiom etc ? Some errors are more equal than others. Anyway, first lets have some explanation about the correct option.

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by akhpad » Mon Apr 12, 2010 11:38 pm

Here, "the cost" is the subject of the sentence. So it should be plural because of "they".

Although most large public relations firms can afford to run information technology centers in-house, some niche firms are discovering that the cost associated with maintaining an information technology staff and from continuously improving hardware and software are larger than they initially estimated.

Now We have C and E

C) costs associated with
E) costs arising from

Above both idioms are correct.

Here, "costs arising from" is correctly fitted in the sentence what we need.
Ans: E

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kstv: Legendary Member; Posts: 610; Joined: Fri Jan 15, 2010 12:33 amFollowed by: 2 members; Thanked: 47 times

by kstv » Mon Apr 12, 2010 11:51 pm

Hi @akhp77
I thought 'they' refers to the niche firms.

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by akhpad » Tue Apr 13, 2010 12:00 am

Although most large public relations firms can afford to run information technology centers in-house,
some niche firms are discovering
that
the costs arising from maintaining an information technology staff and from continuously improving hardware and software are larger than they initially estimated.

From -- from are parallel
I believe; this is just a sense of meaning.
What did they initially estimate?

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electrico: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 53; Joined: Tue Feb 17, 2009 11:14 pm; Location: India; Thanked: 2 times

by electrico » Tue Apr 13, 2010 12:23 am

Here, they refers to firms. We should have 'costs' because the verb is are -> are larger than they initially estimated.

B and E is unidiomatic. The answer should be C.

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by gauravgundal » Tue Apr 13, 2010 2:13 am

IMO E
x = the cost associated with maintaining an information technology staff and from continuously improving hardware and software

firstly, x are larger than they initially estimated ,so the subject must be plural .Now, we have 3 choice B,C,E.
But,costs associated from is incorrect idiom.

so finally we have two answers left.
C and E

let us check C.
the costs associated with ...... and the costs associated from ..

The second bold part has incorrect idiom.

so C is wrong ..[/u]

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electrico: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 53; Joined: Tue Feb 17, 2009 11:14 pm; Location: India; Thanked: 2 times

by electrico » Tue Apr 13, 2010 2:39 am

gauravgundal wrote:IMO E
x = the cost associated with maintaining an information technology staff and from continuously improving hardware and software

firstly, x are larger than they initially estimated ,so the subject must be plural .Now, we have 3 choice B,C,E.
But,costs associated from is incorrect idiom.

so finally we have two answers left.
C and E

let us check C.
the costs associated with ...... and the costs associated from ..

The second bold part has incorrect idiom.

so C is wrong ..[/u]

Could you please expian again as why C is wrong?

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gmat.cracker24: Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts; Posts: 19; Joined: Tue Apr 06, 2010 1:07 am

by gmat.cracker24 » Tue Apr 13, 2010 3:53 am

+1 for E

This is what I feel

we should be looking for costs associated with X and with Y are larger... so far as idioms are concerned
or , costs arising from X and Y are larger

OA?

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by loveusonu » Tue Apr 13, 2010 6:48 am

Should be E.
Parallelism: Costs(plural noun) arising from X and Y are(plural verb)

Sonu
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by gabriela13 » Tue Apr 13, 2010 7:43 am

I would go with E because the correct idiom is "x arising from ...and y arising from ..."; we need the plural costs because of "and" ; this conjunction most of the time indicates a plural.

Good luck to you all (now working on the gmat) and thank you all (who took it).

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