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by harsh.champ » Thu Feb 04, 2010 3:59 am
The sugar maples give us syrup in March, a display of beautiful flowers in spring, and their foliage is spectacular in October.


(1)their foliage is spectacular in October.
(2)spectacularly, their foliage changes color in October.
(3)has spectacular foliage in October.
(4)spectacular foliage in October.
(5)October foliage that is spectacular in orange and red.

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by komal » Thu Feb 04, 2010 5:07 am
harsh.champ wrote:The sugar maples give us syrup in March, a display of beautiful flowers in spring, and their foliage is spectacular in October.


(1)their foliage is spectacular in October.
(2)spectacularly, their foliage changes color in October.
(3)has spectacular foliage in October.
(4)spectacular foliage in October.
(5)October foliage that is spectacular in orange and red.

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All answer choices except (4) are either Awkward or Parallelism error.

Answer choice (4) is correct
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by Brent@GMATPrepNow » Sat Feb 06, 2010 9:06 am
harsh.champ wrote:The sugar maples give us syrup in March, a display of beautiful flowers in spring, and their foliage is spectacular in October.

(1)their foliage is spectacular in October.
(2)spectacularly, their foliage changes color in October.
(3)has spectacular foliage in October.
(4)spectacular foliage in October.
(5)October foliage that is spectacular in orange and red.
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confused-whether to keep the original option??
We need to maintain parallelism here.
The maple gives us syrup (noun) . . . , a display (noun) , and . . . (noun)
(4) maintains this parallelism
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by bhumika.k.shah » Sat Feb 06, 2010 9:28 am
a display of ... (a) spectacular foliage in

Prepositional parallelism correctly maintained.

IMO D :)
Brent Hanneson wrote:
harsh.champ wrote:The sugar maples give us syrup in March, a display of beautiful flowers in spring, and their foliage is spectacular in October.

(1)their foliage is spectacular in October.
(2)spectacularly, their foliage changes color in October.
(3)has spectacular foliage in October.
(4)spectacular foliage in October.
(5)October foliage that is spectacular in orange and red.
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confused-whether to keep the original option??
We need to maintain parallelism here.
The maple gives us syrup (noun) . . . , a display (noun) , and . . . (noun)
(4) maintains this parallelism
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by hrishi19884 » Sat Feb 06, 2010 1:31 pm
bhumika.k.shah wrote:a display of ... (a) spectacular foliage in

Prepositional parallelism correctly maintained.

IMO D :)
Brent Hanneson wrote:
harsh.champ wrote:The sugar maples give us syrup in March, a display of beautiful flowers in spring, and their foliage is spectacular in October.

(1)their foliage is spectacular in October.
(2)spectacularly, their foliage changes color in October.
(3)has spectacular foliage in October.
(4)spectacular foliage in October.
(5)October foliage that is spectacular in orange and red.
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confused-whether to keep the original option??
We need to maintain parallelism here.
The maple gives us syrup (noun) . . . , a display (noun) , and . . . (noun)
(4) maintains this parallelism
What if the question is "The sugar maples give us a syrup in March, a display of beautiful flowers in spring, and their foliage is spectacular in October

While option D remains the same.(not "a spectacular foliage")

Would it be still D as the answer?
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