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by chaitanya.mehrotra » Sat Jul 02, 2011 11:14 am
During the past decade, the labor market in France has not been operating according to free market principles, but instead stifling functioning through its various government regulations restricting the hiring and firing of workers.

A)principles, but instead stifling functioning through its various government regulations restricting the hiring and firing of workers
B)principles, instead it has been functioning in a stifled manner as a result of various government regulations that restrict the hiring and firing of workers
C)principles, rather functioning despite being stifled as a result of government regulations that variously restrict worker hiring and firing
D)principles; the hiring and firing of workers is restricted there by various government regulations, its functioning being stifled
E)principles; instead, its functioning has been stifled by various government regulations restricting the hiring and firing of workers

Doubt: If we put a semicolon in option B will the option be correct ?
This is the explaination of option B. "This choice incorrectly uses a comma to connect two independent clauses, thus creating a run-on sentence. Two independent clauses must be connected either by a conjunction, such as “and” or “but,” or by a semicolon"


OA is E
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by sameerballani » Sat Jul 02, 2011 2:25 pm
Yes, I feel that if we replace comma with semicolon, it will do.
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by gmatjeet » Wed Jul 06, 2011 11:33 am
I would like to understand the difference in usage of comma and semicolon in B and E. Also how does a comma creates a run on sentence here.
In case of two independent sentence joined by semicolon, what happens to the pronoun reference. (For ex: in E, its has no referrant in the 2nd independent sentence. So isnt it dependent on the 1st sentence.
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by Geva@EconomistGMAT » Sat Jul 16, 2011 9:55 am
gmatjeet wrote:I would like to understand the difference in usage of comma and semicolon in B and E. Also how does a comma creates a run on sentence here.
In case of two independent sentence joined by semicolon, what happens to the pronoun reference. (For ex: in E, its has no referrant in the 2nd independent sentence. So isnt it dependent on the 1st sentence.
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