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Understanding Too & Also

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by itudor13 » Wed Nov 20, 2013 7:11 pm
Johnny has been practicing very hard to compete in the band solo competition and of that Mark has been practicing too.

a) ...
b) practices very hard is Mark also
c) also Mark is practicing too
d) Mark has been practicing hard also
e) Mark too was practicing so hard

Answer - D

Could someone explain the grammar rule for this question? I can't seem to justify the answer other than that it sounds the best out of all the options.

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by theCodeToGMAT » Wed Nov 20, 2013 10:37 pm
According to me,

{A} - INCORRECT; "of that Mark has been practicing too" is awkward.. "of that" doesn't connect to first independent clause... "that" doesn't seem to have antecedent
{B} - INCORRECT; passive & not parallel.
{C} - INCORRECT; "too" is redundant as sentence already states "also"
{D} - CORRECT
{E} - INCORRECT; not parallel.. Mark has been is need to
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by [email protected] » Thu Nov 21, 2013 12:32 am
Hi itudor13,

This question requires that we use Parallelism rules: each of the two phrases needs to be in the same "format" (meaning the same order and types of words).

The first part: "Johnny....has been practicing...very hard..."

The second part must match the first in terms of its wording and format:

"Mark...has been practicing...hard...."

The only answer that has parallel format is D

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by ilyana » Thu Nov 21, 2013 3:36 pm
Hello!

A: no referent for "that" in the sentence. It's a 100% mistake on the GMAT.

B: written as it is, it's ungrammatical. There're two verbs: "is" and "practices". Ok, "is" in general can tolerate some additional verb forms (ing-form or Past Participle: is practicing, is practiced -- from a purely grammatical point of view, no attention to meaning), but "practices" certainly can't. If we have some other verb in the clause that already contains "practices", it has to be a parallel verb: "he practices and gets better". Strict parallelism is not required; the second verb can be in another tense or with modals: "he practices and eventually is going to win", but these two verbs have to convey different ideas. Here "practices" and "is" are trying to say the same thing: that Mark practices or that Mark is practicing.
The second mistake here is tense. In the first part of the sentence the author used Present Perfect; we expect him to use the same tense in the second part as well (here it is Present Simple). We will call it parallelism. This is not a 100% mistake, because you are not obliged by grammar rules to keep the same tenses throughout the sentence (check OG13, Diagnostic test, problem 46: Present Simple "make" and "do" changes to what some call Future Simple "will gesture"). But if you have a choice between keeping the same tenses and not keeping (without any apparent reason for changing tenses), choose the option where tenses are the same.
The third reason is that reverse construction (when subject and verb switch places) here is unjustified.

C: "also" and "too" together create redundancy. It is considered a 100% mistake, but be careful: on some rare occasions it might suddenly cease to be a fatal blow to the answer choice ("while" and "at the same time" in one clause are in the correct answer in the problem from GMATPrep "a recent poll indicates that many people in the United States hold a combination").
The second problem here is tense (parallelism) - see my notes above.

D: correct

E: tense (parallelism) - see above.
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by itudor13 » Thu Nov 21, 2013 4:43 pm
Thank you for the simple explanation.

Ian
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by guptas » Sat Nov 23, 2013 4:08 pm
"John has been practicing" is parallel with "Mark has been practicing".

Therefore, D.
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