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by kim sung wook » Sun Jun 08, 2008 4:49 am
Authoritative parents are more likely than permissive parents to have children who as adolescents are self-confident, high in self-esteem, and responsibly independent.

a.Authoritative parents are more likely than permissive parents to have children who as adolescents are self-confident, high in self-esteem, and responsibly independent.

b.Authoritative parents who are more likely than permissive parents to have adolescent children that are self-confident, high in self-esteem, and responsibly independent.

c.Children of authoritative parents, rather than permissive parents, are the more likely to be self-confident, have a high self-esteem, and to be responsibly independent as adolescents.

d.Children whose parents are authoritative rather than being permissive, are more likely to have self-confidence, a high self-esteem, and be responsibly independent when they are an adolescent.

e.Rather than permissive parents, the children of authoritative parents are the more likely to have self-confidence, a high self-esteem, and to be responsibly independent as an adolescent.



oa is a


how about b or c?
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by chidcguy » Sun Jun 08, 2008 6:36 am
C D E break parallelism as they list out the qualities.

Sentence in B is incomplete the way its written and also twists the meaning
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by sulabh » Sun Jun 08, 2008 9:01 am
Adding to what is written above-B incorrectly uses 'that' instead of 'who'
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by senthil » Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:46 am
I feel the answer to be c .. what is OA?
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by gmatinjuly » Wed Jun 11, 2008 6:59 am
A correct
B –changes meaning
Auth parents are more likey to have adolescent children….
C – are 'the' more likey ….
D/E sats changes meaning as adoscelent is only linked to being repsonibilty indepeentnt
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by chetan86 » Wed Mar 05, 2014 10:50 pm
Hello,

I want to know 2 things about this question.

1. In the A option 'as adolescents' is modifier??
Because I think 'adolescents are' is not making sense. And If I remove 'as adolescents' then it makes sense.
...permissive parents to have children who are self-confident...

2. In option B we have
...permissive parents to have children..
In OG it is mentioned that we do not have verb for authoritative parents.
So in general 'to have' doesn't work as verb?

Thanks,
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by theCodeToGMAT » Wed Mar 05, 2014 11:31 pm
1. In the A option 'as adolescents' is modifier??
Because I think 'adolescents are' is not making sense. And If I remove 'as adolescents' then it makes sense.
...permissive parents to have children who are self-confident...
Yes..
2. In option B we have
...permissive parents to have children..
In OG it is mentioned that we do now have verb for authoritative parents.
So in general 'to have' doesn't work as verb?
The problem here is that in the option {B}

b.Authoritative parents who are more likely than permissive parents to have adolescent children that are self-confident, high in self-esteem, and responsibly independent.

the italic part is a part of modifier "who" ... i.e. the sentence has no verb..... so not a proper independent clause.. INCORRECT

The correct structure could have been something similar to:
- Authoritative parents who are ....... are ......
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by chetan86 » Thu Mar 06, 2014 12:19 am
theCodeToGMAT wrote: The problem here is that in the option {B}

b.Authoritative parents who are more likely than permissive parents to have adolescent children that are self-confident, high in self-esteem, and responsibly independent.

the italic part is a part of modifier "who" ... i.e. the sentence has no verb..... so not a proper independent clause.. INCORRECT

The correct structure could have been something similar to:
- Authoritative parents who are ....... are ......
Hi Rahul,

Thanks for your reply.
I got my mistake.
I assumed that we do not required COMMA after 'who are more likely than permissive parents' modifier.

Could you please throw some lights whether it is necessary to have comma after 'who...' modifier?? So next time I do not repeat the same mistake.

Thanks,
Chetan
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by theCodeToGMAT » Thu Mar 06, 2014 12:26 am
chetan86 wrote: Hi Rahul,

Thanks for your reply.
I got my mistake.
I assumed that we do not required COMMA after 'who are more likely than permissive parents' modifier.

Could you please throw some lights whether it is necessary to have comma after 'who...' modifier?? So next time I does not repeat the same mistake.

Thanks,
Chetan
Not necessarily.. you will find many such kind of fillers that are intentionally added to make a sentence look more complicated.

Just keep track of the Subject and of the fillers.. In such cases.. mostly the "verb" is missing..
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by GMATGuruNY » Thu Mar 06, 2014 4:33 am
chetan86 wrote:Hello,

I want to know 2 things about this question.

1. In the A option 'as adolescents' is modifier??
Because I think 'adolescents are' is not making sense. And If I remove 'as adolescents' then it makes sense.
...permissive parents to have children who are self-confident...

2. In option B we have
...permissive parents to have children..
In OG it is mentioned that we do now have verb for authoritative parents.
So in general 'to have' doesn't work as verb?

Thanks,
Chetan
I received a PM asking me to comment.

A: children who as adolescents are self-confident
Here, as adolescents serves as an ADVERB, explaining HOW certain children are self-confident.
HOW are these children self-confident?
They are self-confident AS ADOLESCENTS.
In addition, as adolescents explains how these children are high in self-esteem and responsibly independent.
To make it clear that as adolescents modifies the entire LIST of attributes -- self-confident, high in self-esteem, and responsibly independent -- the adverb PRECEDES the list.

B: authoritative parents who are more likely to have adolescent children
Here, to have serves as an ADVERB, explaining HOW authoritative parents are more likely.
HOW are these parents more likely?
They are more likely TO HAVE adolescent children.
An infinitive such as to have cannot serve as the main verb of a sentence; it can serve only as a modifier or as a noun.
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by chetan86 » Thu Mar 06, 2014 5:16 pm
GMATGuruNY wrote: I received a PM asking me to comment.

A: children who as adolescents are self-confident
Here, as adolescents serves as an ADVERB, explaining HOW certain children are self-confident.
HOW are these children self-confident?
They are self-confident AS ADOLESCENTS.
In addition, as adolescents explains how these children are high in self-esteem and responsibly independent.
To make it clear that as adolescents modifies the entire LIST of attributes -- self-confident, high in self-esteem, and responsibly independent -- the adverb PRECEDES the list.

B: authoritative parents who are more likely to have adolescent children
Here, to have serves as an ADVERB, explaining HOW authoritative parents are more likely.
HOW are these parents more likely?
They are more likely TO HAVE adolescent children.
An infinitive such as to have cannot serves as the main verb of a sentence; it can serve only as a modifier or as a noun.
Hi Mitch,

Thanks a lot for your very good explanation and giving me good insight.

Regards,
Chetan
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