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SC : Crack-GMAT Test Q

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jnelson0612
 Post subject: Re: SC : Crack-GMAT Test Q
 Post Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2012 2:33 pm 
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aps_asks wrote:
I rule out choice D) Because of Being.

I feel that the the choices A , B and C are incorrect due to Parallelism issue.

So Apart from the fact that , there is correct usage of "comma + ing" modifier in Choice E) , all the other choices are screwed.

Please let me know your comments on this.


My biggest concerns with A and C are that they both lack verbs. Both of them are currently sentence fragments.

And yeah, I'm extremely suspicious of being. It is *rarely* right.

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heyazhi09
 Post subject: Re: SC : Crack-GMAT Test Q
 Post Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:11 pm 
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I'm really confused by the choice B, because i think the verb "extended" is parallel to "was"
"...was the Incan highway and extended..."

In this case, "extended" is used as a past tense. actually it is a helping verb, paralleled with "was".
Also, since the"extended" works as a verb, it means the same as "extending" ( i mean the meaning, not the function.)

correct me, please.
thanks a lot.
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jnelson0612
 Post subject: Re: SC : Crack-GMAT Test Q
 Post Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2012 5:37 pm 
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heyazhi09 wrote:
I'm really confused by the choice B, because i think the verb "extended" is parallel to "was"
"...was the Incan highway and extended..."

In this case, "extended" is used as a past tense. actually it is a helping verb, paralleled with "was".
Also, since the"extended" works as a verb, it means the same as "extending" ( i mean the meaning, not the function.)

correct me, please.
thanks a lot.


Did you read the explanation on page 1? There is a helpful post there by dbernst as well as some thoughts from other people.

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ashwinkumar96
 Post subject: Re: SC : Crack-GMAT Test Q
 Post Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2012 12:22 am 
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In option B, can't "extended" be considered an adjective ? In the MGMAT book there is an example:
A mastodan carcass, thawed only once and still fresh, is on display.

In the above sentence thawed and fresh are considered parallel as they both describe carcass. Can't similar reasoning be applied to this question?
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tim
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 Post Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 7:58 pm 
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does it matter? B is wrong either way.. :)

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