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by akhpad » Sat Jul 03, 2010 10:08 pm
Unlike computer skills or other technical skills, there is a disinclination on the part of many people to recognize the degree to which their analytical skills are weak.

(A) Unlike computer skills or other technical skills, there is a disinclination on the part of many people to recognize the degree to which their analytical skills are weak.
(B) Unlike computer skills or other technical skills, which they admit they lack, many people are disinclined to recognize that their analytical skills are weak.
(C) Unlike computer skills or other technical skills, analytical skills bring out a disinclination in many people to recognize that they are weak to a degree.
(D) Many people, willing to admit that they lack computer skills or other technical skills, are disinclined to recognize that their analytical skills are weak.
(E) Many people have a disinclination to recognize the weakness of their analytical skills while willing to admit their lack of computer skills or other technical skills.

I have a doubt about correct option D.

Many people, X, are disinclined ...

X = willing to admit that they lack computer skills or other technical skills

X is an ING modifier and set-off by a pair commas and acting as a noun modifier. Is this the correct use of ING modifier when set-off by a pair of commas? I believe that in such case it act as adverbial modifier. Can you please clarify that where I am lagging?

Similar things, I found like this.
Plural noun, including ..., ....
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by pradeepkaushal9518 » Sat Jul 03, 2010 10:25 pm
hi akhp

i m not expert but i have choosen D as my answer without reading yr comments.

unlike cannt be correct as it is not comparining anyhting hence i eliminate A,b and C. out of D and E E is wordy and not concise. so left with D.
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by Patrick_GMATFix » Sat Jul 03, 2010 10:35 pm
Hello Akhilesh,

The OA is correct. The -ing modifier is being used correctly.

-ing modifier typically modifies a clause (adverbial modifier), but it can also modify a noun or noun phrase (especially when the noun phrase is the only thing before the comma!). This question is a perfect example of that, and not the 1st one I see in an official Q. It's just that the GMAT prefers to use -ing introduced modifiers to modify clauses, and relative pronoun introduced modifiers (which, who, whom, whose, when, where, that...) to modify the noun or noun phrase before the comma.

You can find another official example of an -ing modifier acting as a noun rather than adverbial modifier at GMATPrep Question 2237. In this example, the -ing modifier in the correct answer (E) targets the noun phrase "The Chicago and Calumet Rivers"

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by akhpad » Sat Jul 03, 2010 11:09 pm
Excellent; I also believe so.

In that case ING phrase will modify subject of a main clause and it comes immediately after subject of a main clause.
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by akhpad » Sat Jul 03, 2010 11:24 pm
Patrick_GMATFix wrote:
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by Patrick_GMATFix » Sat Jul 03, 2010 11:37 pm
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by michael290 » Wed Jul 30, 2014 10:59 pm
unlike cannt be correct as it is not comparining anyhting hence i eliminate A,b and C. out of D and E E is wordy and not concise. so left with D.
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