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by vaivish » Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:45 am
808. The proposed health care bill would increase government regulation of health insurance, establish standards that would guarantee wider access to people with past health problems and to workers changing jobs who otherwise could be uncovered for months.
(A) establish standards that would guarantee wider access to people with past health problems and to workers changing jobs who
(B) establishing standards that would guarantee wider access to people with past health problems and to workers who are changing jobs and
(C) to establish standards that would guarantee wider access to people with past health problems and to workers who change jobs that
(D) for establishing standards that would guarantee wider access for people with past health problems and workers changing jobs who
(E) for the establishment of standards that would guarantee wider access for people with past health problems and workers who are changing jobs that

how can OA would be B?
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by eccentric » Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:04 pm
my initial thought had got me to choice A & B
However then the and in B seems to be a little awkward hence i finally settled down to A;

Can some one put more light on this
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by loki.gmat » Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:40 pm
one can clearly eliminate C D n E.

but i see problem in both A n B.

A - ....................workers changing jobs.............. sounds very awkward.

B - ....................workers who are changing jobs and otherwise could ..................... parallelism problem.

just wonder what is the source of this question. :roll:

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by raunekk » Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:02 am
imo:B
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by GmatKiss » Fri Oct 07, 2011 7:07 am
IMO : B
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by saketk » Mon Oct 24, 2011 12:05 pm
vaivish wrote:808. The proposed health care bill would increase government regulation of health insurance, establish standards that would guarantee wider access to people with past health problems and to workers changing jobs who otherwise could be uncovered for months.
(A) establish standards that would guarantee wider access to people with past health problems and to workers changing jobs who
(B) establishing standards that would guarantee wider access to people with past health problems and to workers who are changing jobs and
(C) to establish standards that would guarantee wider access to people with past health problems and to workers who change jobs that
(D) for establishing standards that would guarantee wider access for people with past health problems and workers changing jobs who
(E) for the establishment of standards that would guarantee wider access for people with past health problems and workers who are changing jobs that

how can OA would be B?
The part before and after "AND" has to be parallel here.

This is what B does.

"to people with past health problems" and "to workers who are changing jobs and otherwise could be uncovered for months"
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by patanjali.purpose » Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:09 pm
edirik wrote:IMO, the answer is B though I still did not like the answer.

The phrase starting with "establish" should show the results of the health care reform. That's why it is important to use "establishing"
vaivish wrote:808. The proposed health care bill would increase government regulation of health insurance, establish standards that would guarantee wider access to people with past health problems and to workers changing jobs who otherwise could be uncovered for months.
(A) establish standards that would guarantee wider access to people with past health problems and to workers changing jobs who
(B) establishing standards that would guarantee wider access to people with past health problems and to workers who are changing jobs and ( See the parallelism; establishing to people...., and establishing to workers)
(C) to establish standards that would guarantee wider access to people with past health problems and to workers who change jobs that (And "that"refers to job, which is irrelevant)
(D) for establishing standards that would guarantee wider access for people with past health problems and workers changing jobs who
(E) for the establishment of standards that would guarantee wider access for people with past health problems and workers who are changing jobs that ( Establishment is wordy than to establish. MGMAT V>A>N rule. And "that"refers to job, which is irrelevant)

how can OA would be B?
establishing standards would guarantee wider access to people ...and standards would guarantee wider access to workers ...

It makes sense.
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