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by gmat009 » Tue Sep 23, 2008 10:52 pm
Students in the metropolitan school district lack math skills to such a large degree as to make it difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming ever more dependent on information-based industries.
(A) lack math skills to such a large degree as to make it difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming
(B) lack math skills to a large enough degree that they will be difficult to absorb into a city’s economy that becomes
(C) lack of math skills is so large as to be difficult to absorb them into a city’s economy that becomes
(D) are lacking so much in math skills as to be difficult to absorb into a city’s economy becoming
(E) are so lacking in math skills that it will be difficult to absorb them into a city economy becoming

D and E both use correct idiom, so which one is better and why.
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by 4meonly » Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:12 am
FROM OG10:

In A, lack is modified by a wordy and awkward construction, to such a large degree as to make it difficult to.
B is similarly flawed, and to a large enough degree that is unidiomatic. C is ungrammatical because it uses
lack as a noun rather than as a verb: the phrase beginning Students... becomes a dangling element, and them
refers illogically to skills rather than students. Additionally, A, B, and C fail to use one or both of the "-ing" forms
are lacking and becoming; these forms are preferable to lack and becomes in describing progressive and
ongoing conditions. D uses the "-ing" forms, but so much... as to be difficult to absorb is an awkward and unidiomatic verbal modifier. Choice E is best
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by GmatKiss » Sat Oct 08, 2011 1:46 am
IMO : E
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