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by aditya8062 » Thu Oct 23, 2014 4:50 am
The company claimed to have created a backpack so capacious that it could simultaneously hold for textbooks, a laptop computer, and necessary school supplies and so light and well-designed that even a seventh-grader could wear it comfortably.
(A) supplies and so light
(B) supplies so light
(C) supplies, and it was so light
(D) supplies, yet being so light
(E) supplies, yet so light

my doubt: we can come down to E because the meaning demands so. but i want to know whether the construction of E is right? The construction after "yet" should have a subject ELSE this construction will take the subject of the previous clause by default. BY that logic wont the subject after "yet" be "company"?
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by GMATGuruNY » Thu Oct 23, 2014 6:54 am
aditya8062 wrote: my doubt: we can come down to E because the meaning demands so. but i want to know whether the construction of E is right? The construction after "yet" should have a subject ELSE this construction will take the subject of the previous clause by default. BY that logic wont the subject after "yet" be "company"?
Generally, PARALLEL FORMS serve the SAME FUNCTION.
E: a backpack so capacious that it could simultaneously hold four textbooks...yet so light that even a seventh-grader could wear it comfortably.
Here, the phrases in red are parallel forms, each composed of so + ADJECTIVE + that-clause.
Thus, the default interpretation is that both phrases serve the same function: each is an ADJECTIVE modifying a backpack.
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