The city has proposed a number of water treatment and conservation projects the cost of which raises water bills high enough so that even environmentalists are beginning to raise alarms.
A. the cost of which raises water bills high enough so that
B. at a cost raising water bills so high that
C. at a cost which raises water bills high enough so
D. whose cost will raise water bills so high that
E. whose cost will raise water bills high enough so that
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my pick is Amgmt_gmat wrote:The city has proposed a number of water treatment and conservation projects the cost of which raises water bills high enough so that even environmentalists are beginning to raise alarms.
A. the cost of which raises water bills high enough so that
B. at a cost raising water bills so high that
C. at a cost which raises water bills high enough so
D. whose cost will raise water bills so high that
E. whose cost will raise water bills high enough so that
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im going with B
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Slightly confused between A and D.
But i'll pick D. D seems succinct and conveys the intended meaning
The city has proposed a number of water treatment and conservation projects the cost of which raises water bills high enough so that even environmentalists are beginning to raise alarms.
A. the cost of which raises water bills high enough so that - "whose cost" is more succinct than "the cost of which"
B. at a cost raising water bills so high that - Changes the intended meaning.
C. at a cost which raises water bills high enough so - Changes the intended meaning.
D. whose cost will raise water bills so high that
E. whose cost will raise water bills high enough so that , "so high that" is more succinct than "high enough so that"
But i'll pick D. D seems succinct and conveys the intended meaning
The city has proposed a number of water treatment and conservation projects the cost of which raises water bills high enough so that even environmentalists are beginning to raise alarms.
A. the cost of which raises water bills high enough so that - "whose cost" is more succinct than "the cost of which"
B. at a cost raising water bills so high that - Changes the intended meaning.
C. at a cost which raises water bills high enough so - Changes the intended meaning.
D. whose cost will raise water bills so high that
E. whose cost will raise water bills high enough so that , "so high that" is more succinct than "high enough so that"
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The word "proposed" implies that these projects will be implemented in the future, if at all. On that basis, I narrowed my list of possible choices to 'D' and 'E', because only these choices contain "will raise", which also refers to the future. Choice 'D' contains "so high that even...", while choice 'E' contains "high enough so that even". Between the two, I felt that choice 'D' was less awkward.
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B. at a cost raising water bills so high thatthephoenix wrote:I am confused b/n B and D ,
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This option changes the intended meaning very subtly. So does option C. They implies that the proposal's cost raised the water bills rather than the projects'.
Option D is clear in that sense. 'Whose' clearly points to the projects.
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A. the cost of which raises water bills high enough so that<- high enough so that is unidiomaticmgmt_gmat wrote:The city has proposed a number of water treatment and conservation projects the cost of which raises water bills high enough so that even environmentalists are beginning to raise alarms.
A. the cost of which raises water bills high enough so that
B. at a cost raising water bills so high that
C. at a cost which raises water bills high enough so
D. whose cost will raise water bills so high that
E. whose cost will raise water bills high enough so that
B. at a cost raising water bills so high that
C. at a cost which raises water bills high enough so
D. whose cost will raise water bills so high that < correct IMO
E. whose cost will raise water bills high enough so that
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here are a few angles from which you can attack this problem.mgmt_gmat wrote:The city has proposed a number of water treatment and conservation projects the cost of which raises water bills high enough so that even environmentalists are beginning to raise alarms.
A. the cost of which raises water bills high enough so that
B. at a cost raising water bills so high that
C. at a cost which raises water bills high enough so
D. whose cost will raise water bills so high that
E. whose cost will raise water bills high enough so that
1) VERB TENSE
the treatment and conservation projects described in the sentence have been proposed. the implication, then, is that these projects have not yet been implemented; therefore, any verb describing the effects of the projects must appear in the future tense.
this observation will eliminate (a), (b), and (c), each of which implies that the cost is already raising water bills in the present, or has already raised those bills.
(A and C literally contain the present tense, while B contains a -ING modifier that automatically adopts the tense of the main clause -- in this case, the present perfect.)
2) REDUNDANCY
you can't use both "enough" and "so" in the same description; each of these alone is sufficient to articulate the desired meaning.
this observation is enough to eliminate (a), (c), and (e).
3) "WHICH", OR OTHER MODIFIERS CONTAINING "WHICH", MUST BE PRECEDED BY A COMMA
(c) contains an instance of "which" that is not preceded by a comma -- instant elimination.
the same goes for "each of which", "from which", "of which", etc. -- so we can also eliminate (a), since "the cost of which" falls into the same category.
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... so, just to be explicit, the correct answer to the problem is (d).
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@Ron,mgmt_gmat wrote:The city has proposed a number of water treatment and conservation projects the cost of which raises water bills high enough so that even environmentalists are beginning to raise alarms.
A. the cost of which raises water bills high enough so that
B. at a cost raising water bills so high that
C. at a cost which raises water bills high enough so
D. whose cost will raise water bills so high that
E. whose cost will raise water bills high enough so that
I see A to be a Run -On sentence. Am i right?
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nope. that says "the cost of which", a construction that works in the same way as "which" itself -- i.e., it creates a subordinate clause.gmatmachoman wrote:@Ron,mgmt_gmat wrote:The city has proposed a number of water treatment and conservation projects the cost of which raises water bills high enough so that even environmentalists are beginning to raise alarms.
A. the cost of which raises water bills high enough so that
B. at a cost raising water bills so high that
C. at a cost which raises water bills high enough so
D. whose cost will raise water bills so high that
E. whose cost will raise water bills high enough so that
I see A to be a Run -On sentence. Am i right?
analogy:
i have four dogs, each of them weighs over 100 pounds
--> this is a run-on sentence, since "each of them weighs over 100 pounds" is an independent clause by itself.
i have four dogs, each of which weighs over 100 pounds
--> this is a perfectly good sentence.
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