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Since the 1930's aircraft manufacturers

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by dongkim2 » Wed Mar 24, 2010 12:25 am
Since the 1930's aircraft manufacturers have tried to build airplanes with frictionless wings, shaped so smoothly and perfectly that the air passing over them would not become turbulent.

o wings, shaped so smoothly and perfectly
o wings, wings so smooth and so perfectly shaped
o wings that are shaped so smooth and perfect
o wings, shaped in such a smooth and perfect manner
o wings, wings having been shaped smoothly and perfectly so


OA B


[spoiler]Somehow when I looked at this question, I didn't even consider B as an answer choice because "wings, wings" appears to be redundant. [/spoiler]
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by Shawshank » Wed Mar 24, 2010 12:49 am
Hey bro..

IMO -- B.

I agree that the use of wings twice is confusing, but then if u read the sentence without wings it does not seem clear.

U can use the POE to eliminate all the other chopices.


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by Pdgmat2010 » Wed Mar 24, 2010 4:18 am
thanks Shawshank. at first glance even i ruled out 'wings, wings'!
but i checked the link you've mentioned and the explanation is good :)

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by tomada » Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:21 am
Why is (A) incorrect?
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by rockeyb » Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:53 am
tomada wrote:Why is (A) incorrect?
(A) Lacks parallelism X and Y .

shaped so smoothly AND so perfectly .
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by GmatKiss » Mon Sep 12, 2011 4:04 am
How is C eliminated and B prefered?

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by vishwas.arora » Tue Sep 13, 2011 4:27 am
C says,

wings that are shaped so smooth and perfect

here smooth and perfect are modifying the way they are shaped, i.e. modifying a verb, so an adverb is required. Precisely, smoothly and perfectly, does the job here.

Secondly, IMO, in A, the them placed later in the non-underlined sentence doesn't have a clear referent.

In B, that ambiguity is removed by clearing making wings as the main referent of them.

Pl correct me if i am wrong.

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by HSPA » Tue Sep 13, 2011 9:13 am
Some how I am not with OA

IMO C..
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by gunjan1208 » Wed Sep 14, 2011 3:21 am
Well, OA is perfectly fine....Please refer resumptive modifiers....This is classic example for that.

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If it helps, +1 for me:)
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