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by mundasingh123 » Mon Oct 11, 2010 6:02 am
Although it was once funded entirely by the government, the Victoria and Albert Museum was one of the first of Britain's national museums seeking support from corporations and private donors and to increase income by increasing attendance.

(A) one of the first of Britain's national museums seeking support from
(B) one of Britain's first national museums seeking support of
(C) among Britain's first national museums to seek support of
(D) among the first of Britain's national museums to seek support from
(E) among Britain's first national museums that have sought the support of

OA D
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by sandy217 » Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:05 am
mundasingh123 wrote:Although it was once funded entirely by the government, the Victoria and Albert Museum was one of the first of Britain's national museums seeking support from corporations and private donors and to increase income by increasing attendance.

(A) one of the first of Britain's national museums seeking support from
(B) one of Britain's first national museums seeking support of
(C) among Britain's first national museums to seek support of
(D) among the first of Britain's national museums to seek support from
(E) among Britain's first national museums that have sought the support of

OA D
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To maintain ll'ism , we need "to seek" (and to increase income by increasing attendance)
Left with C and D

As per MGMAT we can collapse the prepositional phrase with "of" (with some exceptions like time , quantity)without change in the meaning," first of Britain's national museums" is same as "Britain's first national museums"

My take is D . "Seek from" is better than "seek of" .

Please correct if am wrong somewhere ?
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by sandy217 » Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:13 am
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mundasingh123 wrote:Although it was once funded entirely by the government, the Victoria and Albert Museum was one of the first of Britain's national museums seeking support from corporations and private donors and to increase income by increasing attendance.

(A) one of the first of Britain's national museums seeking support from
(B) one of Britain's first national museums seeking support of
(C) among Britain's first national museums to seek support of
(D) among the first of Britain's national museums to seek support from
(E) among Britain's first national museums that have sought the support of

OA D
I got this question from some other forum and so i decided to ask some experts here to help.
To maintain ll'ism , we need "to seek" (and to increase income by increasing attendance)
Left with C and D

As per MGMAT we can collapse the prepositional phrase with "of" (with some exceptions like time , quantity)without change in the meaning," first of Britain's national museums" is same as "Britain's first national museums"

My take is D . "Seek from" is better than "seek of" .

Please correct if am wrong somewhere ?
https://gmat-grammar.blocked/2006/0 ... dioms.html . "to seek from" is correct idiom
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by mundasingh123 » Mon Oct 11, 2010 9:15 am
hi i also found from google that support of is followed by the entity receiving support and not lending support
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by abhi.genx7 » Mon Oct 11, 2010 10:47 am
The OA please , i went with c to get the parallel structure , to .. to ...
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by mundasingh123 » Mon Oct 11, 2010 11:00 am
abhi.genx7 wrote:The OA please , i went with c to get the parallel structure , to .. to ...
OA is d already given .scroll up
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by GMATGuruNY » Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:28 pm
mundasingh123 wrote:Although it was once funded entirely by the government, the Victoria and Albert Museum was one of the first of Britain's national museums seeking support from corporations and private donors and to increase income by increasing attendance.

(A) one of the first of Britain's national museums seeking support from
(B) one of Britain's first national museums seeking support of
(C) among Britain's first national museums to seek support of
(D) among the first of Britain's national museums to seek support from
(E) among Britain's first national museums that have sought the support of

OA D
I got this question from some other forum and so i decided to ask some experts here to help.
To maintain parallelism, the sentence needs to say that the Victoria and Albert Museum was among the first....to seek support...and to increase income. Eliminate A and B (which say seeking) and E (which says that have sought).

In C, the placement of the adjective first changes the intended meaning of the sentence. First national museums means original national museums; in other words, the first national museums to be established. The intended meaning of the sentence is that the Victoria and Albert museum was one of the first to seek support and to increase income. Eliminate C.

The correct answer is D.
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