Sentence Correction

The seeming unlimited supply of fresh water and the apparently absent government regulations makes the Canary Island a popular choice for those wanting to buy their own private island.

a)seeming unlimited supply of fresh water and the apparently absent government regulations makes

b)seeming unlimited supply of fresh water and the apparent absence of government regulations make

c)seeming unlimited supply of fresh water and the apparent absent government regulations make

d)seemingly unlimited supply of fresh water and the apparently absent government regulations makes

e)seemingly unlimited supply of fresh water and the apparent absence of government regulations make

OA: E

I'm having trouble understanding the parallelism in this sentence? Isn't this case of two parallel adverbial phrases starting with seemingly and apparenlty?

I'm having trouble understanding the parallelism in this sentence? Isn't this case of two parallel adverbial phrases starting with seemingly and apparenlty?

E is perfectly parallel there is no need to have "apparently" to make it parallel to
"seemingly"

shobhitk wrote:The seeming unlimited supply of fresh water and the apparently absent government regulations makes the Canary Island a popular choice for those wanting to buy their own private island.

a)seeming unlimited supply of fresh water and the apparently absent government regulations makes

b)seeming unlimited supply of fresh water and the apparent absence of government regulations make

c)seeming unlimited supply of fresh water and the apparent absent government regulations make

d)seeming unlimited supply of fresh water and the apparently absent government regulations makes

e)seemingly unlimited supply of fresh water and the apparent absence of government regulations make

OA: E

A, B, C and D: seeming unlimited supply
Here, seeming -- an ADJECTIVE -- serves to modify supply, implying that the amount of water seems to be a SUPPLY.
Not the intended meaning.
Eliminate A, B, C and D.

The correct answer is E.

OA: seemingly unlimited supply and apparent absence of government regulations
Here:
seemingly -- an ADVERB -- serves to modify unlimited, correctly implying that the supply of water seems to be UNLIMITED.
apparent -- an ADJECTIVE -- serves to modify absence, correctly implying that there appears to be an ABSENCE of government regulations.
and -- a CONJUNCTION -- correctly serves to connect two noun phrases (seemingly unlimited supply and apparent absence of government regulations).
It is not required that the modifiers in the two noun phrases (seemingly and apparent) serve the same function.

Thanks GMATGuruNY. From what you have mentioned, if I take option D and make following changes- "makes" to "make" and seeming to seemingly. Do you think even option D will be a right answer?

shobhitk wrote:Thanks GMATGuruNY. From what you have mentioned, if I take option D and change "makes" to "make". Do you think even option D will be a right answer?

No.
As I mentioned above, seeming conveys the wrong meaning.

GMATGuruNY,

I apologize for multiple iterations. I think the edit I made wasn't visible.

So, if you take a closer look option A and D are same. I made a typo. D would be seemingly instead of seeming.
In addition to this, if I change makes to make, will it be correct?

Basically, if d) is-

d)seemingly unlimited supply of fresh water and the apparently absent government regulations make

Will this be correct? I ask this because I want to be sure that there isn't any other parallelism issue that I'm missing on.

shobhitk wrote:
Basically, if d) is-

d)seemingly unlimited supply of fresh water and the apparently absent government regulations make

Will this be correct? I ask this because I want to be sure that there isn't any other parallelism issue that I'm missing on.

There is one more error in D: the apparently absent government regulations
Here:
absent means non-existent.
apparently -- an adverb -- serves to indicate HOW the regulations are NON-EXISTENT.
Conveyed meaning:
The [existing] government regulations are apparently non-existent.
The conveyed meaning is nonsensical.

This error is rectified in the OA: the apparent absence of government regulations
Here, apparent -- an adjective -- serves to modify absence.
Conveyed meaning:
There appears to be an absence -- in other words, a lack -- of government regulations.
This meaning makes sense.

With logic we can derive that it has to be seemingly --> D,E remain. because seeming and supply doesn't make sense.

Additionally, one can drop answer choice that say "A and B makes"
Correct is "A and B make"
--> E. That's how I did it.