Retailers and Web sites (which vs that)

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by neeti2711 » Mon Feb 04, 2013 11:41 pm

For smaller retailers and Web sites, which pay regular mail rates and may be shipping from only one location, free shipping is not nearly as affordable and often must be added into prices

A. which pay regular mail rates and may be shipping from only one location, free shipping is not nearly as affordable and often must

B. that pay regular mail rates and may ship from only one location, free shipping is not nearly as affordable and often must

C. who pay regular mail rates and may ship from only one location, free shipping is not nearly so affordable and it often must

D. which pays regular mail rates and may ship from only one location, free shipping is not as nearly affordable and often must

E. which pay regular mail rates and may ship from only one location, free shipping is not nearly as affordable and often must

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by hemant_rajput » Tue Feb 05, 2013 1:32 am

neeti2711 wrote:For smaller retailers and Web sites, which pay regular mail rates and may be shipping from only one location, free shipping is not nearly as affordable and often must be added into prices

A. which pay regular mail rates and may be shipping from only one location, free shipping is not nearly as affordable and often must

B. that pay regular mail rates and may ship from only one location, free shipping is not nearly as affordable and often must

C. who pay regular mail rates and may ship from only one location, free shipping is not nearly so affordable and it often must

D. which pays regular mail rates and may ship from only one location, free shipping is not as nearly affordable and often must

E. which pay regular mail rates and may ship from only one location, free shipping is not nearly as affordable and often must

that is use for restrictive clause and which is for non-restrictive clause.

and i think who is the correct modifier here. so my answer is C.

what is OA?

I'm no expert, just trying to work on my skills. If I've made any mistakes please bear with me.

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by Tommy Wallach » Tue Feb 05, 2013 12:57 pm

For smaller retailers and Web sites, which pay regular mail rates and may be shipping from only one location, free shipping is not nearly as affordable and often must be added into prices

A. which pay regular mail rates and may be shipping from only one location, free shipping is not nearly as affordable and often must
B. that pay regular mail rates and may ship from only one location, free shipping is not nearly as affordable and often must
C. who pay regular mail rates and may ship from only one location, free shipping is not nearly so affordable and it often must
D. which pays regular mail rates and may ship from only one location, free shipping is not as nearly affordable and often must
E. which pay regular mail rates and may ship from only one location, free shipping is not nearly as affordable and often must

(A) Parallelism broken on "which pay...and may be shipping"
(B) "That" is incorrect, because this is a non-essential modifier. We're not trying to describe a specific type of small retailer/web site (i.e. the type that pay regular mail rates and ship from one location). We're describing ALL small retailers and websites, then DESCRIBING how they work (i.e. they pay regular mailes rates and ship from one location).
(C) "Who" is for peoples. The "it" at the end is unnecessary. "So affordable" isn't the best comparison marker. One usually says "I am not as rich as you," not "I am not so rich as you."
(D) "Pays" is wrong subject-verb agreement, because our subject is plural (smaller retailers and web sites).
(E) Correct!

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by ceilidh.erickson » Wed Feb 06, 2013 9:35 am

Can you tell us the source of this question? It doesn't seem like an official GMAT question, because the comparison structure in all of the answer choices is broken. If we say "[something] is not nearly as affordable..." we need to compare to the thing that it's not as affordable as! A correct answer should say something like "... not nearly as affordable as it is for larger retailers."

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by neeti2711 » Thu Feb 07, 2013 12:32 am

OA is E

Source: Aristotle SC Grail

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