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The restaurant company

by GmatKiss » Tue Apr 03, 2012 12:36 pm
Although the restaurant company has recently added many new restaurants across the country and its sales have increased dramatically, its sales at restaurants open for more than a year have declined.

A. the restaurant company has recently added many new restaurants across the country and its sales have increased dramatically, its
B. the restaurant company has recently added many new restaurants across the country and its sales increased dramatically, its
C. many new restaurants have recently been opened across the country and its sales increased dramatically, the restaurant company's
D. having recently added many new restaurants across the country and with its sales increasing dramatically, the restaurant company's
E. recently adding many new restaurants across the country and having its sales increase dramatically, the restaurant company's
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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Tue Apr 03, 2012 1:03 pm
In the opening clause, we have two events occurring simultaneously: "has...added" and "have increased." Using present perfect for both is a good use of parallel form.

B--removes parallel form. "has...added and "increased"

C--by changing the structure, we no longer have restaurant company before the pronoun "its" thus creating a pronoun error.

D--"Although having recently added..." is awkward, and we have the same pronoun error as in C

E--"Although recently adding..." is awkward, and we have the same pronoun error as in C
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by [email protected] » Thu Apr 05, 2012 9:04 pm
Yes Bill absolutely correct.

this question is about parallelism...

But when I just read the sentence, I though this question to be a pronoun case.

Both 'its' are wrong. The first pronoun should be 'their' and the second pronoun should be 'its'.

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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Thu Apr 05, 2012 9:27 pm
Both instances are "its sales"...whose sales are we talking about? The sales of the restaurant company, which is singular.

I think the trick you're running into is that it says "many new restaurants...its sales..." If they are new restaurants, is it possible for their sales to have increased dramatically? Not really; they don't have past performance from which you could gauge a dramatic increase.
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by [email protected] » Fri Apr 06, 2012 12:34 am
yes Bill you are right... Also the contrast presented in the question is for the restaurant company.

And your point is also correct.
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by Vanshika21 » Fri Apr 06, 2012 3:32 am
so what's the IMO?

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