By choosing glass apartments towering a hundred feet over brownstone units designed for earlier generations, seemingly younger-than-ever moneyed professionals have embraced a modern design ethic that accentuated their luxury-laden lives.

A) By choosing glass apartments towering a hundred feet over brownstone units designed for earlier generations, seemingly younger-than-ever moneyed professionals have embraced a modern design ethic that accentuated

B) By choosing glass apartments towering a hundred feet over brownstone units designed for earlier generations, seeming younger-than-ever moneyed professionals have embraced a modern design ethic that accentuates

C) In choosing glass apartments in hundred-foot towers instead of brownstone units designed for earlier generations, seemingly younger-than-ever moneyed professionals have embraced a modern design ethic that accentuates

D) In choosing glass apartments in hundred-foot towers instead of brownstone units designed for earlier generations, seemingly younger-than-ever moneyed professionals have embraced a modern design ethic that accentuated

E) In choosing glass apartments towering a hundred feet over brownstone units designed for earlier generations, seeming younger-than-ever moneyed professionals have embraced a modern design ethic, accentuating


Once again I can't seem to be on the right side of the fence. The original sentence states that people are choosing glass apartments that tower 100 feet over brownstone units. My mental image of this sentence is a 100 foot high brownstone units and a 200 foot apartment buildings right next to it.

Selection C says that people are choosing apartments in towers that are 100 feet high instead of brownstone units. This selection distorts the stated facts and the meaning of the original sentence.

MGMAT says that C is the correct. This is the best of the worst because it uses "seemingly" and "accentuates" BUT I SUGGEST THAT THIS PROBLEM BE REMOVED BECAUSE IT TOOK ME 6 MINUTES TO CHOOSE THE WRONG ANSWER

i guess i m ready for the real thing..
that was a toughie...n i got it right... although i dunno if i got it right for the right reasons :D
anyway.. this is wat i thought...
all the sentences have "have embraced", that kind of did it for me....
bcoz of the "have" in the sentece.. the sentence should begin with "In choosing"
and bcoz of the "have" again... it should end with "accentuates"
am i right?

Hmm. I agree - I don't like the re-wording of that 100-foot info. I'll email our curriculum director. Grammar trumps all else, though, so I still would pick C on this one.

Dhruv, you're on track. "Have embraced" does demand "accentuates" so eliminate A, D, and E. Between B and C, "seeming" is an adjective and "seemingly" is an adverb. This word is supposed to modify another adjective, so it needs to be in the adverb form. Eliminate B. (By the way, by choosing vs. in choosing is basically a red herring here - they're trying to get you to focus on that split even though either one is fine.)

Also, one thing spencer - you will see questions on the test that tempt you to spend 6 minutes (and on which you will also probably choose the wrong answer). This doesn't (necessarily) indicate anything wrong with the test - most of the time, the issue is us! If you can't get an SC in 1.5 min, pick something anyway and move on. (2 min for all other question types.)

No matter how good you get, you'll still be presented with questions you can't do and on which you will be very tempted to spend way more time than you even realize you're spending. Your responsibility is to manage your time so that this doesn't happen.