Prize-stock Breeding

parallelism is tested in this question.
receiving, fetching and the underlined part of the sentence must be parallel. what should the underlined part be so that it is in parallel?

recieving, fetching and exciting are parallel. all are present participles.

A excited [parallelism not maintained. suggests that bulls and cows got excited. eliminated!]

B it excited [what is the referent for 'it'? Eliminated!]

(Cl exciting [correct. my answer!]

(Dl would excite [excite is a verb here. we need a present participle to satisfy the parallelism. Eliminated!]

(El it had excited [ same error as in D. also why do we need past perfect tense here?Eliminated!]

Hope this helps!

C threw me off because while we do need parallelism, I don't thhink that the sentence makes sense.

... and exciting enormous interest whenever they were put on show. ? How do you excite enormous interest?

Simple parallelism required.

with bulls and cows receiving ..., fetching ..., and exciting ....

A.excited = wrong tense...its talking about the present tense...emergence of .... receiving... ELIMINATE
B.it ??? what is it referring to ? bulls and cows ? awards ? price stock breeding ? ELIMINATE
D.would excite - future tense is not required . ELIMINATE
E. why do we require a past perfect tense here ? also what is the it referring to ? its a combination of B and D . ELIMINATE

IMO C

Hope it helps

komal wrote:The end of the eighteenth century saw the emergence of prize-stock breeding, with individual bulls and cows receiving awards, fetching unprecedented prices, and excited enormous interest whenever they were put on show.

(Al excited
(8l it excited
(Cl exciting
(Dl would excite
(El it had excited

OA C

C is the right answer as per the parallelism.

I agree with you Money it kind sounds weird, but I have kind seen few questions which would not make sense but as per GMAt they are right.

akahuja143 those are the ones that are going to get me... because after figuring out the grammatically correct remaining choices, i default to which one is logically correct...

it still doesn't make sense to me but I know that it is correct! ::sigh::

Money, I'm totally with you on choice 'C' sounding strange. My answer was 'C' because it was the only logical choice, but I had never seen 'exciting' used in that context.

tomada we're in the same boat! lol... i know what's going to happen now... i'm going to see something similar ON the GMAT and then go with the illogical answer and get it wrong ::sigh::

sidenote - I see you live in Hoboken. I'm from Jersey and have many friends there... was thinking about moving there before I moved to the city. I lived in Newport, JC in 2008. Make sure you study on St. Pattys day!

money9111 wrote:tomada we're in the same boat! lol... i know what's going to happen now... i'm going to see something similar ON the GMAT and then go with the illogical answer and get it wrong ::sigh::

sidenote - I see you live in Hoboken. I'm from Jersey and have many friends there... was thinking about moving there before I moved to the city. I lived in Newport, JC in 2008. Make sure you study on St. Pattys day!

I don't really see the problem here. "Exciting enormous interest" makes perfect sense when you take into account that "exciting" is a verb, not an adjective. "Enormous" is an adjective to the direct object, which is "interest."

Exciting as an adjective: The exciting movie won two awards.
Exciting as a verb: The New York Jets have been exciting their fans for years.

Fetching.... exciting parallelism here.

Ludacrispat26 my issue was thinking of exciting as an adjective and I couldn't "switch" my brain to reading it the other way as a verb.. if that makes sense

totally made this mistake as well, exciting enormous interest seemed logically correct, but I have never used it ever in my life

Hi Money,
At first, I also zeroed on B) and searched this thread for explanation.

But now I think that, use of 'and' made all the difference. It points towards the continuation of something going on.
Also instead of 'it excited' , "it all excited" would have been a better usage.