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by force5 » Wed Apr 06, 2011 5:15 am
While all financial institutions face a similar crisis, those investment houses that hold a significant number of subprime mortgage loans and the insurance companies that underwrite credit swaps obviously dictates the types and amounts of assistance required to fix the problem.
(a) all financial institutions face a similar crisis, those investment houses that hold a significant number of subprime mortgage loans and the insurance companies that underwrite credit swaps obviously dictates
(b) each financial institution faces a similar crisis, the investment houses holding a significant number of subprime mortgage loans and the insurance companies that underwrite credit swaps obviously dictate
(c) all financial institutions face a similar crisis; the financial investment houses that have a significant holding in subprime mortgage loans and the insurance companies that underwrite credit swaps obviously dictates
(d) each financial institution faces similar crises, the investment houses that hold a significant number of subprime mortgage and each of the insurance companies that underwrite credit swaps obviously dictates
(e) all financial institutions face similar crises, those investment houses that have a significant holding in subprime mortgage loans and those insurance companies that underwrite credit swaps obviously dictate
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by gig92 » Wed Apr 06, 2011 5:32 am
force5 wrote:While all financial institutions face a similar crisis, those investment houses that hold a significant number of subprime mortgage loans and the insurance companies that underwrite credit swaps obviously dictates the types and amounts of assistance required to fix the problem.
(a) all financial institutions face a similar crisis, those investment houses that hold a significant number of subprime mortgage loans and the insurance companies that underwrite credit swaps obviously dictates
(b) each financial institution faces a similar crisis, the investment houses holding a significant number of subprime mortgage loans and the insurance companies that underwrite credit swaps obviously dictate
(c) all financial institutions face a similar crisis; the financial investment houses that have a significant holding in subprime mortgage loans and the insurance companies that underwrite credit swaps obviously dictates
(d) each financial institution faces similar crises, the investment houses that hold a significant number of subprime mortgage and each of the insurance companies that underwrite credit swaps obviously dictates
(e) all financial institutions face similar crises, those investment houses that have a significant holding in subprime mortgage loans and those insurance companies that underwrite credit swaps obviously dictate
There is 2/3 split owing to "dictate(s)" between A, C, D, and B,E.
All options with "dictates" are wrong because the nouns "Investment houses" and "Insurance Companies" are plural.

B is wrong too as the parallism is missing in the subclause of "Insurance companies"

This IMO, Ans: E as it maintains ||ism in subclauses and subject is followed by correct verb form.
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by HSPA » Wed Apr 06, 2011 5:35 am
financial institutions = plural = face (a/c/e)
investment houses = plural = dictate (e)

But i have question regarding "those"..it is unclear... I would have gone for C if it has 'dictate'
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by gig92 » Wed Apr 06, 2011 5:48 am
HSPA wrote:financial institutions = plural = face (a/c/e)
investment houses = plural = dictate (e)

But i have question regarding "those"..it is unclear... I would have gone for C if it has 'dictate'
The option C starts with a subclause which ends with ";" which is wrong as a subclause cannot stand alone with ";" but needs ",". Also the present participle in "the financial investment houses..." does not have its parallel equivalent in the following subclause "the insurance companies that underwrite credit swaps...". It could be "the insurance companies that underwriting credit swaps..."
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by HSPA » Wed Apr 06, 2011 5:52 am
Good catch gig
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by AIM GMAT » Wed Apr 06, 2011 5:53 am
IMO E .

But i am skeptical about the word "those" used in option E . Is it required there if we can edit that option ?
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by Target2009 » Wed Apr 06, 2011 6:49 am
I would go with E.
D is also gramatically correct but changes meaning.

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by aspirant2011 » Wed Apr 06, 2011 10:50 am
I would also go with E..........

i was between B and E but in B i felt the usage of "the investment houses holding a significant number" was not parallel with rest of the sentence.............
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by force5 » Wed Apr 06, 2011 2:23 pm
thanks everyone for the input. The OA is E.

source:Kaplan

@aspirant2011 - can you please tell me how did you not find parallelism in B
@Target2009 and AIM GMAT- can you please provide inputs on B.
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by AIM GMAT » Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:50 pm
(b) each financial institution faces a similar crisis, the investment houses holding a significant number of subprime mortgage loans and the insurance companies that underwrite credit swaps obviously dictate

(e) all financial institutions face similar crises, those investment houses that have a significant holding in subprime mortgage loans and those insurance companies that underwrite credit swaps obviously dictate
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by force5 » Thu Apr 07, 2011 7:52 am
Ohh!! this means

the investment houses holding... and the insurance companies underwriting .... ( this would have been parallel)

but i used to think that only the first word matters?? is it mandatory that verb form or construct should be same too?

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by aspirant2011 » Thu Apr 07, 2011 9:17 am
in B i found that

the investment houses holding a significant number of subprime mortgage loans and the insurance companies that underwrite credit swaps obviously dictate

while in E i found "that x || that y"

those investment houses that have a significant holding in subprime mortgage loans and those insurance companies that underwrite credit swaps obviously dictate
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