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by El Cucu » Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:23 am
510. More and more in recent years, cities are stressing the arts as a means to greater economic development and investing millions of dollars in cultural activities, despite strained municipal budgets and fading federal support.
(A) to greater economic development and investing
(B) to greater development economically and investing
(C) of greater economic development and invest
(D) of greater development economically and invest
(E) for greater economic development and the investment of
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by scoobydooby » Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:22 am
we need stressing and investing to maintain parallelism so C, D, E are out

B is awkward due to the use of development economically which seems to mean: greater development cheaply :)

so A
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IMO A

by Dream Weaver » Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:24 am
More and more in recent years, cities are stressing the arts as a means to greater economic development and investing millions of dollars in cultural activities, despite strained municipal budgets and fading federal support.
(A) to greater economic development and investing
(B) to greater development economically and investing
(C) of greater economic development and invest
(D) of greater development economically and invest
(E) for greater economic development and the investment of
This is a simple case of parallelism. "Stressing" and "Investing".

With this, A is the best possible choice.[/quote]
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Re: IMO A

by El Cucu » Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:39 pm
Dream Weaver wrote:
More and more in recent years, cities are stressing the arts as a means to greater economic development and investing millions of dollars in cultural activities, despite strained municipal budgets and fading federal support.
(A) to greater economic development and investing
(B) to greater development economically and investing
(C) of greater economic development and invest
(D) of greater development economically and invest
(E) for greater economic development and the investment of
This is a simple case of parallelism. "Stressing" and "Investing".

With this, A is the best possible choice.
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You are right. I was in a hurry and could not notice such an easy parallelism...
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