im confused. i eliminated A and chose C because it seemed as if 'they' in the last part of A pointed to 'the sighted people'.

where did i go wrong? i understand that A makes more sense in terms of tense.

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Stacey Koprince wrote:The "they" in A is okay.

Researchers have found that individuals who have been blind from birth <blah blah blah>, and that they <blah blah blah>.

The "comma and" indicates parallelism, and the two "that's" indicate what should be parallel: "individuals who have been blind from birth" and "they." So the "they" unambiguously refers to "individuals blind from birth," both logically and structurally.

Yes...just to add what stacey said, as the Manhattan SC guide says....the pronoun in the second parallel clause refers to noun that is there in the first clause

here first that clause subject = Individuals ....

so second clause they(which act as subject) will refer to Individuals....

hey Stacey
after "comma splice and" (, and)..we should have a new independent clause!!! which is not the case here..
please clarify, if you can get time out of your busy schedule

Researchers have found that individuals who have been blind from birth, and who thus have never seen anyone gesture, nevertheless make hand motions when speaking just as frequently and in virtually the same way as sighted people do, and that they will gesture even when conversing with another blind person.

a. who thus have never seen anyone gesture, nevertheless make hand motions when speaking just as frequently and in virtually the same way as sighted people do, and that they will gesture
b. who thus never saw anyone gesturing, nevertheless make hand motions when speaking just as frequent and in virtually the same way as sighted people did, and that they will gesture
c. who thus have never seen anyone gesture, nevertheless made hand motions when speaking just as frequently and in virtually the same way as sighted people do, as well as gesturing
d. thus never having seen anyone gesture, nevertheless made hand motions when speaking just as frequent and in virtually the same way as sighted people did, as well as gesturing
e. thus never having seen anyone gesture, nevertheless to make hand motions when speaking just as frequently and in virtually the same way as sighted people do, and to gesture

OA: A

panacea6565 wrote:hey Stacey
after "comma splice and" (, and)..we should have a new independent clause!!! which is not the case here..
please clarify, if you can get time out of your busy schedule

Researchers have found that individuals who have been blind from birth, and who thus have never seen anyone gesture, nevertheless make hand motions when speaking just as frequently and in virtually the same way as sighted people do, and that they will gesture even when conversing with another blind person.

a. who thus have never seen anyone gesture, nevertheless make hand motions when speaking just as frequently and in virtually the same way as sighted people do, and that they will gesture
b. who thus never saw anyone gesturing, nevertheless make hand motions when speaking just as frequent and in virtually the same way as sighted people did, and that they will gesture
c. who thus have never seen anyone gesture, nevertheless made hand motions when speaking just as frequently and in virtually the same way as sighted people do, as well as gesturing
d. thus never having seen anyone gesture, nevertheless made hand motions when speaking just as frequent and in virtually the same way as sighted people did, as well as gesturing
e. thus never having seen anyone gesture, nevertheless to make hand motions when speaking just as frequently and in virtually the same way as sighted people do, and to gesture

OA: A

IMO it is not that "comma + and" has to follow independent clause....

The rule is that independent clause should follow "comma + and"....and not the vice versa....

in fact in many parallelism questions comma + and does not follow independent clause.

Hey Stacey, Goel

IMO it is not that "comma + and" has to follow independent clause....

The rule is that independent clause should follow "comma + and"....and not the vice versa....

in fact in many parallelism questions comma + and does not follow independent clause.

so this means, for "comma(,) and" there is no rule as such in gmat
it can be used anywhere

IMO There are some rules for comma + and...that are followed in GMAT...

IMO the best way to learn is Manhattan SC guide.

goelmohit2002 wrote:IMO There are some rules for comma + and...that are followed in GMAT...

IMO the best way to learn is Manhattan SC guide.

can you please help. in finding those, i have soft copy - old and new , both...plz give me the page numbers

panacea6565 wrote:

goelmohit2002 wrote:IMO There are some rules for comma + and...that are followed in GMAT...

IMO the best way to learn is Manhattan SC guide.

can you please help. in finding those, i have soft copy - old and new , both...plz give me the page numbers

In the 4th edition SC guide....

Please read the parallelism and odds and evens chapter...

There these rules are there...

i dont think, i have anything as such, which can be called illegal.. the soft copy called Manhattan Review - sentence correction guide..is what i have downloaded from Manhattan website only.