Crossbreeding!

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Crossbreeding!

by gmat_perfect » Tue Aug 10, 2010 5:03 am
In recent years cattle breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding, in part that their steers should acquire certain characteristics and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor.

(A) in part that their steers should acquire certain characteristics
(B) in part for the acquisition of certain characteristics in their steers
(C) partly because of their steers acquiring certain characteristics
(D) partly because certain characteristics should be acquired by their steers
(E) partly to acquire certain characteristics in their steers

[spoiler]OA: E[/spoiler]

Why is D wrong?

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by outreach » Tue Aug 10, 2010 6:28 am
i feel D is passive
also use of should is incorrect.
gmat_perfect wrote:In recent years cattle breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding, in part that their steers should acquire certain characteristics and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor.

(A) in part that their steers should acquire certain characteristics
(B) in part for the acquisition of certain characteristics in their steers
(C) partly because of their steers acquiring certain characteristics
(D) partly because certain characteristics should be acquired by their steers
(E) partly to acquire certain characteristics in their steers

[spoiler]OA: E[/spoiler]

Why is D wrong?
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by gmat_perfect » Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:30 am
Should is there in the original sentence.

I think it is not wrong to retain the should.

Is it passive for which D has been eliminated?

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by Gmat_War » Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:44 am
Can someone please explain why C is wrong.
I can also say that A is wrong because it sounds awkward.But I'm more interested to find the grammatical flaw in construction of this sentence.

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by arora007 » Wed Aug 11, 2010 6:54 am
gmat_perfect wrote:In recent years cattle breeders have increasingly used crossbreeding, in part that their steers should acquire certain characteristics and partly because crossbreeding is said to provide hybrid vigor.

(A) in part that their steers should acquire certain characteristics
(B) in part for the acquisition of certain characteristics in their steers
(C) partly because of their steers acquiring certain characteristics
(D) partly because certain characteristics should be acquired by their steers
(E) partly to acquire certain characteristics in their steers

[spoiler]OA: E[/spoiler]

Why is D wrong?
If i was seeing this question for the first time, I would have gone with D too, in haste...
and looking at the pseudo parallelism( i am not sure....though...just making it up according to the OA )
"partly because...., and partly because "

but carefully have a look... GMAT respects structural and logical parallelism before anything...

to acquire certain characteristics is parallel to provide hybrid vigor,
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by ngoebel » Wed Aug 11, 2010 8:51 pm
I agree.
to acquire certain characteristics is parallel to provide hybrid vigor,
The tricky part here is that "crossbreeding is said" hides the parallelism of "to provide vigor."

I picked D too.

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by kvcpk » Wed Aug 11, 2010 10:20 pm
I went with D too :(
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by selango » Mon Aug 16, 2010 8:52 am
Gmatperfect,

Check this post.This question s explained by GmatPill clearly.

https://www.gmatpill.com/practice-questi ... -question/
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