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by Nycgrl » Fri Aug 08, 2008 3:20 pm
The nation’s three military academies have seen a dramatic rise in applications, one fueled by a resurgence of patriotism, increasing tuition costs at private colleges, and improved recruiting by the academies. E
(A) one fueled by a resurgence of patriotism, increasing tuition costs at private colleges, and improved recruiting by the academies
(B) one fueled by a resurgence of patriotism, tuition costs that have increased at private colleges, and academies improving their recruiting
(C) one fueled by a resurgence of patriotism, private colleges that increased their tuition costs, and recruiting improvements by the academies
(D) fueled by a resurgence of patriotism, tuition costs increasing at private colleges, and academies improving their recruiting
(E) fueled by a resurgence of patriotism, increasing tuition costs at private colleges, and academies improving their recruiting



OA- A Why not E???
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by reachac » Fri Aug 08, 2008 9:19 pm
The sentence structure contains a list of 3 elements namely "resurgence of patriotism", "increasing tuition costs at private colleges" & "improved recruiting by the academies".
Dese 3 items should have the same formation, A does that by starting each element with a noun.

we have a paralleism error in E. In E the last item "academies improving their recruiting" is not parallel with the first two items.
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by kiranlegend » Sat Aug 09, 2008 12:42 am
reachac wrote:The sentence structure contains a list of 3 elements namely "resurgence of patriotism", "increasing tuition costs at private colleges" & "improved recruiting by the academies".
Dese 3 items should have the same formation, A does that by starting each element with a verb.

In E the last item "academies improving their recruiting" does not start with a verb as do the first two items and hence we have a paralleism error in E.
Fueled and increasing are not verbs :roll:

why is A correct?? :( and E incorrect??
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by reachac » Sat Aug 09, 2008 4:46 am
kiranlegend wrote:
reachac wrote:The sentence structure contains a list of 3 elements namely "resurgence of patriotism", "increasing tuition costs at private colleges" & "improved recruiting by the academies".
Dese 3 items should have the same formation, A does that by starting each element with a verb.

In E the last item "academies improving their recruiting" does not start with a verb as do the first two items and hence we have a paralleism error in E.
Fueled and increasing are not verbs :roll:

why is A correct?? :( and E incorrect??
Edited the explanition, thanks for pointing out.

Was not referring to 'fueled' but instead "resurgence, increasing & improved recruiting"
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