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by ildude02 » Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:12 pm
my pick is E since it's more parallel.
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Re: Grocery chains

by kiranlegend » Tue Jul 22, 2008 8:16 pm
IMO E

i am not good at explaining stuff, anyway will do:


C -- have been enabled looks wrong to me,, ppl ur opinion??

D is in past tense..

E looks parallel
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by Aldiablo » Tue Jul 22, 2008 10:13 pm
A B - wrong comparison.

C - Contender
D - able to have maintained - awkward.
E - Contender

I opted C though.

But probably, 'by means of focus' is wordy and could have been replaced simply by 'by focusing'
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by Vignesh.4384 » Wed Jul 23, 2008 12:56 am
IMO E
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by aj5105 » Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:17 am
IMO E.

Parallelism,lucid too.
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by Aldiablo » Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:08 am
Whats wrong with C ?
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by Sunny22uk » Wed Jul 23, 2008 9:04 am
Don't you guys think that E changes the meaning of the sentence-"small markets that have focused on personal attention and locally-produced foods have been able to maintain" which means only the small markets that have focused on personal attention and locally-produced foods have been able to maintain relatively high profits. Onthe other hand as per the question, all small markets have focussed on personal attention and and locally-produced foods.
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by ricky » Wed Jul 23, 2008 9:54 am
'small markets THAT HAVE focused on personal attention and locally......' is very much parallel to '...the large national grocery chains THAT HAVE sought to maxmize........'
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by Sunny22uk » Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:08 am
There is change in meaning and then there is parallelism.
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by ricky » Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:45 am
The change is parallel....'In contrast to the large national grocery chains THAT HAVE sought to maxmize........' and 'small markets THAT HAVE focused on personal attention and ....'
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by Sunny22uk » Thu Jul 24, 2008 10:06 am
You are right Ricky, I was overlooking parallelism in the sentence,thanks for your help.
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by NSNguyen » Sat Jul 26, 2008 10:35 pm
C, D, E will be considered when the passage states comparison with the text" in contrast to A....., B "

I would go with E,
C miss verb
D wordy
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IMO E

by stubbornp » Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:22 am
e is right....


c has a wrong verb

d uses passiveness and wordy too
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by nitin86 » Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:11 am
C is wrong becuase it changes the meaning of the sentence by using "has enabled"

D is wrong because of modifier error.

this phrase "by focusing on personal attention...." should modify "small markets..."

As a rule -> non-adverbial modifier phrases should be closer to the nound the phrase modify

so correct sentence should be ->

small markets, by focusing on personal attention and....., are able to......

For eg,

Incorrect -> Nitin is happy, like all his relatives, to be on vaction
Correct -> Nitin, like all his relatives, is happy to be on vacation
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like all his relatives,Nitin is happy to be on vacation

"Like all his relatives" is the modifying phrase
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