BREAKING: Target Test Prep releases Brand New 2026 On Demand GMAT prep course

Redeem

800score.com

This topic has expert replies
Post new topic Locked
Previous Topic Next Topic
Source: — Sentence Correction |
User avatar
Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts
Posts: 293
Joined: Thu Jan 14, 2010 9:08 am
Location: India
Thanked: 36 times
Followed by:5 members
GMAT Score:730

by mohit11 » Sat Feb 20, 2010 1:10 am
Answer Should be D,

All items in the list should be parallel and should have the same structure. Whats the OA?
Top
User avatar
MBA Student
Posts: 403
Joined: Tue Dec 22, 2009 7:32 pm
Thanked: 98 times
Followed by:22 members

by fibbonnaci » Sat Feb 20, 2010 1:47 am
error involved- parallelism.
what are the elements that are being compared? the non underlined part of the sentence gives us a clue regarding this. the elements in the non underlined part of the sentence are nouns. Thus the underlined sentence must contain nouns to keep the sentence parallel.
a substantial decrease and an increase are both nouns and thus are parallel to the rest of the sentence.

IMO- D

Hope this helps!
Top
User avatar
Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts
Posts: 43
Joined: Sat Jan 23, 2010 12:18 am
Thanked: 1 times
Followed by:1 members

by AtifS » Sat Feb 20, 2010 2:45 am
IMO D. parallelism issue
In Gmat always avoid unnecessary +ing (gerunds) except some cases, so A,B, and C are out.
if u see the sentence a+noun being used after commas, so only D & E are close choices but in E "substantial" is omitted which doesn't complement the original sentence's meaning. so D is the best choice
OA ? source is www.800score.com's free CAT?
Top
User avatar
Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts
Posts: 102
Joined: Sat Feb 20, 2010 5:38 am
Location: IIM Ahmedabad
Thanked: 10 times

by firdaus117 » Sat Feb 20, 2010 5:44 am
IMO D.Simple question of parallelism.
Top
Post new topic Locked
• Page 1 of 1