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Nycgrl: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 124; Joined: Mon May 19, 2008 1:12 pm; Thanked: 3 times

by Nycgrl » Fri Aug 08, 2008 3:20 pm

The nation’s three military academies have seen a dramatic rise in applications, one fueled by a resurgence of patriotism, increasing tuition costs at private colleges, and improved recruiting by the academies. E
(A) one fueled by a resurgence of patriotism, increasing tuition costs at private colleges, and improved recruiting by the academies
(B) one fueled by a resurgence of patriotism, tuition costs that have increased at private colleges, and academies improving their recruiting
(C) one fueled by a resurgence of patriotism, private colleges that increased their tuition costs, and recruiting improvements by the academies
(D) fueled by a resurgence of patriotism, tuition costs increasing at private colleges, and academies improving their recruiting
(E) fueled by a resurgence of patriotism, increasing tuition costs at private colleges, and academies improving their recruiting

OA- A Why not E???

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Source: Beat The GMAT — Sentence Correction | Fri Aug 08, 2008 3:20 pm

reachac: Legendary Member; Posts: 572; Joined: Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:25 am; Thanked: 21 times

by reachac » Fri Aug 08, 2008 9:19 pm

The sentence structure contains a list of 3 elements namely "resurgence of patriotism", "increasing tuition costs at private colleges" & "improved recruiting by the academies".
Dese 3 items should have the same formation, A does that by starting each element with a noun.

we have a paralleism error in E. In E the last item "academies improving their recruiting" is not parallel with the first two items.

Last edited by reachac on Sat Aug 09, 2008 4:42 am, edited 1 time in total.

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kiranlegend: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 340; Joined: Thu Jun 12, 2008 8:09 am; Location: India; Thanked: 6 times

by kiranlegend » Sat Aug 09, 2008 12:42 am

reachac wrote:The sentence structure contains a list of 3 elements namely "resurgence of patriotism", "increasing tuition costs at private colleges" & "improved recruiting by the academies".
Dese 3 items should have the same formation, A does that by starting each element with a verb.

In E the last item "academies improving their recruiting" does not start with a verb as do the first two items and hence we have a paralleism error in E.

Fueled and increasing are not verbs :roll:

why is A correct??

and E incorrect??

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reachac: Legendary Member; Posts: 572; Joined: Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:25 am; Thanked: 21 times

by reachac » Sat Aug 09, 2008 4:46 am

kiranlegend wrote:
reachac wrote:The sentence structure contains a list of 3 elements namely "resurgence of patriotism", "increasing tuition costs at private colleges" & "improved recruiting by the academies".
Dese 3 items should have the same formation, A does that by starting each element with a verb.

In E the last item "academies improving their recruiting" does not start with a verb as do the first two items and hence we have a paralleism error in E.
Fueled and increasing are not verbs :roll:

why is A correct?? and E incorrect??

Edited the explanition, thanks for pointing out.

Was not referring to 'fueled' but instead "resurgence, increasing & improved recruiting"

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