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by gmat_perfect » Sat Jun 19, 2010 1:22 pm
According to a recent study of consumer spending on prescription medications, increases in the sales of the 50 drugs that were advertised most heavily accounts for almost half of the $20.8 billion increase in drug spending last year, the remainder of which came from sales of the 9,850 prescription medicines that companies did not advertise or advertised very little.

A. heavily accounts for almost half of the $20.8 billion increase in drug spending last year, the remainder of which came
B. heavily were what accounted for almost half of the $20.8 billion increase in drug spending last year; the remainder of the increase coming
C. heavily accounted for almost half of the $20.8 billion increase in drug spending last year, the remainder of the increase coming
D. heavily, accounting for almost half of the $20.8 billion increase in drug spending last year, while the remainder of the increase came
E. heavily, which accounted for almost half of the $20.8 billion increase in drug spending last year, with the remainder of it coming
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by Haaress » Sat Jun 19, 2010 1:54 pm
According to a recent study of consumer spending on prescription medications, increases in the sales of the 50 drugs that were advertised most heavily accounts for almost half of the $20.8 billion increase in drug spending last year, the remainder of which came from sales of the 9,850 prescription medicines that companies did not advertise or advertised very little.

A. heavily accounts for almost half of the $20.8 billion increase in drug spending last year, the remainder of which came
B. heavily were what accounted for almost half of the $20.8 billion increase in drug spending last year; the remainder of the increase coming - wordy
C. heavily accounted for almost half of the $20.8 billion increase in drug spending last year, the remainder of the increase coming - Correct
D. heavily, accounting for almost half of the $20.8 billion increase in drug spending last year, while the remainder of the increase came - Nonsense for a lack of an appropriate word
E. heavily, which accounted for almost half of the $20.8 billion increase in drug spending last year, with the remainder of it coming

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by hardik.jadeja » Sat Jun 19, 2010 1:58 pm
Pick C.

A has S-V agreement issue.

In B, If we remove the prepositional phrase "in the sales of the 50 drugs that were advertised most heavily", B looks like this - "increases were what accounted for almost half of the $20.8 billion increase in drug spending last year" - awkward

D & E) run-on sentences. Main clause is missing the verb.

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by veenu08 » Wed May 08, 2013 3:15 am
Can anyone please help how to rule out D, and in C its stated the remainder of the increase coming, but instead of coming shouldn't it be came.

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