Sentence Correction

skr172 wrote:(D) sounds as if France gets 33% of energy from Germany's nuclear power Wierd right.. thats y it is wrong.

lunarpower wrote:

C) whereas nuclear poweraccounts for just over 33% of the energy produced in Germany

this sentence is correct.

it doesn't use any particularly difficult or obscure constructions, so i think i can let it stand without explanation.
if there's anything you don't understand about it, post back.

Hi Ron
While I do understand why a,b,d, and e are wrong, I had a question about C. Doesn't the structure of this sentence violates the rule of parallelism: "over 75% of the energy....whereas nuclear power..."
Thank you!
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lunarpower wrote:

tnaim wrote:THANK YOU Ron. I now understand why the sentence can still be correct without maintaining parallelism.
I actually found this problem on the GMAT OG book, but could not understand why they chose this answer. I knew I must be making a wrong assumption or missing something out, and Your explanation helped me figure it out.

ok.

since you are thus aware of the fact that this is an official problem, make sure that you heed the warning above when you study such problems: NEVER question the correct answers to the official problems.

in other words, the WRONG question to ask is this:
"isn't that wrong?"

the CORRECT question to ask is this:
"why/how is that correct?"

at first, the difference between these two questions might seem subtle or small, but the different attitudes espoused by each are radically disparate.
the first question suggests an inevitably fruitless search for mistakes in sentences that GMAC has specifically indicated as correct, while the second evinces an understanding that whatever is officially correct must be regarded as correct (even though the officially correct answers are sometimes ugly enough to make me want to throw the book against the wall).

lunarpower wrote:

tnaim wrote:

lunarpower wrote:

C) whereas nuclear poweraccounts for just over 33% of the energy produced in Germany

this sentence is correct.

it doesn't use any particularly difficult or obscure constructions, so i think i can let it stand without explanation.
if there's anything you don't understand about it, post back.

Hi Ron
While I do understand why a,b,d, and e are wrong, I had a question about C. Doesn't the structure of this sentence violates the rule of parallelism: "over 75% of the energy....whereas nuclear power..."
Thank you!
"

no -- "whereas", like other subordinating conjunctions, connects two clauses that by themselves would be independent sentences. since the two items connected are so individually large, it would be an unreasonable burden to expect them to be written in completely parallel structures.

so, in general, the takeaway you can get here is this:
when a subordinating conjunction connects two complete clauses, those clauses don't have to be written in parallel form -- the only requirement is that each of them be a complete sentence on its own.

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by the way, this is an official problem. (i'm not sure whether it's marked as such on the thread, but i've seen it on the gmatprep software.)
remember that you can't question the structure of correct answers in official problems -- if something appears in an officially correct answer, then it's correct, and you must learn it as such.

hi Ron,

as you mentioned 'when a subordinating conjunction connects two complete clauses, those clauses don't have to be written in parallel form ', option C should not have been regarded as a wrong option. Pl. suggest. It's a question posted in the forum and is an official problem.

below is the link.

https://www.beatthegmat.com/meteorites-s ... 58623.html