Sentence Correction

scoobydooby wrote:B is not run on: federal incentives encourage x, eventhough vacancy rates are high and there is no demand for y.

Beat-D-GMAT wrote:HI.

I also go for B.

Federal incentives now encourage ..it should be followed by noun. Capital investment is very much clear.
If you look for it you have only 2 choice B and E. In E

capital investment in commercial office buildings despite vacancy rates in existing structures that are exceptionally high, and although there is

It distort the meaning as vacancy rate is high not structures are very high. so it can be eliminated.

So answer choice is B.

I hope this will help.

lunarpower wrote:

crackgmat007 wrote:shouldnt '...are high AND there is....' be '...are high, AND there is....'? Looks like am missing something, pls clarify. Tx.

it seems that your issue is that you think there should be a comma in that part. (correct me if i've misinterpreted)

nope.

in fact, you CAN'T put a comma here, since a comma would create ambiguity, and would in fact suggest the wrong primary interpretation.

let me explain.

the structure of the sentence is "X, even though (Y and Z)".
in other words. "Y" (high vacancy rates) and "Z" (no demand) are BOTH counter to "X".
with NO COMMA between Y and Z, this structure is reinforced.

if you had a comma, you'd have
"X, even though Y, and Z".
this is most likely to be read as
"(X, even though Y), and Z"
in other words, Y runs counter to X, but Z reinforces X. that's not good.

hope this helps (and that it doesn't look too much like an algebra post)

crackgmat007 wrote:Federal incentives now encourage investing capital in commercial office buildings despite vacancy rates in existing structures that are exceptionally high and no demand for new construction.
(A) investing capital in commercial office buildings despite vacancy rates in existing structures that are exceptionally high and
(B) capital investment in commercial office buildings, even though vacancy rates in existing structures are exceptionally high and there is ---what does there refer to ??Doesnt Gmat prefer it using for a place ??
(C) capital to be invested in commercial office buildings even though there are exceptionally high vacancy rates in existing structures with
(D) investing capital in commercial office buildings even though the vacancy rates are exceptionally high in existing structures with
(E) capital investment in commercial office buildings despite vacancy rates in existing structures that are exceptionally high, and although there is

This question is already discussed, but doesnt answer my question.

OA - B Doesnt it give a run-on sentence at the end [and there is]?

lunarpower wrote:

crackgmat007 wrote:If I see a clause after 'and', I check whether comma is used before 'and' or not. If comma is not used, it creates a run on sentence.

this is not a hard and fast rule.

(2) the clauses are really short: i ordered steak and she ordered shrimp.