rachana sahu Says

ans. must b "e" as 'and' is a parallel conjunction. pls rply corrct ans

Parallel construction..

OA is E

plz explain..


Some airline companies prefer to spend extra money on leather seats for their aircraft, sometimes twice as expensive as the others, because they last two times as long.

(A)Some airline companies prefer to spend extra money on leather seats for their aircraft, sometimes twice as expensive as the others, because they last two times as long.
(B)Some airline companies prefer to spend extra money, sometimes twice as expensive as the others, on leather seats for their aircraft because they last twice as long.
(C)Some airline companies prefer to spend extra money on leather seats, sometimes twice as expensive as the others, on leather seats for their aircraft, being twice as long lasting.
(D)Leather seats lasting twice as long as the others, some airline companies prefer spending two times the extra money on them.
(E)Some airline companies prefer to spend extra money on leather seats, sometimes twice as expensive as the others, for their aircraft because they last twice as long.

A) "two times as long" - should be "twice"
C) weird construction, "leather seats" - repeated
D) weird construction, "two times" - should be "twice"

B) looks right..but "they last twice as long" modifies "extra money"

Therefore IMO E

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a late nineteenth-century feminist, called for urban apartment houses including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses



including communal eating and social facilities.
(A) including child-care facilities and clustered suburban houses including communal eating and social facilities
(B) that included child-care facilities, and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities
(C) with child-care facilities included and for clustered suburban houses to include communal eating and social facilities
(D) that included child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities
(E) to include child-care facilities and for clustered suburban houses with communal eating and social facilities included

IMO D

D - "...called for___ and for _____"

A - weird construction
B - not parallel
C - not parallel
E - not parallel

We can eliminate C & E because of another rule.

"Preposition + Noun + Participle" is almost always wrong on GMAT

"with child-care facilities included" - C&E;

2) Contrary to popular opinion, the movement toward a service economy is leading neither to lower standards of living, more of an unequal distribution of income, or displacing the physical production of goods.

(A) leading neither to lower standards of living, more of an unequal distribution of income, or
(B) leading neither to lower standards of living nor a more unequal distribution of income, or
(C) not leading to either lower standards of living nor to more of an unequal distribution of income, and neither is it
(D) not leading to lower standards of living, more of an unequal distribution of income, and it is not
(E) not leading to lower standards of living or to a more unequal distribution of income, nor is it


I need help!! Which option is parallel?

Try this one:
Yellow jackets number among the 900 or so species of the worlds social wasps, wasps living in a highly cooperative and organized society where they consist almost entirely of femalesthe queen and her sterile female workers.

A. wasps living in a highly cooperative and organized society where they consist almost entirely of
B. wasps that live in a highly cooperative and organized society consisting almost entirely of
C. which means they live in a highly cooperative and organized society, almost all
D. which means that their society is highly cooperative, organized, and it is almost entirely
E. living in a society that is highly cooperative, organized, and it consists of almost all

IMO B

A - "...where they consist almost entirely of females"
C - "which means" is wrong in this sentence
D - "which means" is wrong in this sentence
E - "...and it consists of almost all females..."

91.Should present metal prices continue their sharp rise, the value of the copper in a penny will soon be greater than the face value of the coin.
a. Should present metal prices continue their sharp rise,
b. If present metal prices are continuing their sharp rise,
c. If present metal prices continue to sharply rise,
d. Continuation of sharply rising metal prices should mean that
e. Metal prices sharp rise continuing should mean that

IMO A

B: "..are continuing their sharp rise" - tense error
C: "..to sharply rise.." - split infinitive
D: "should" - changes the meaning
E: "metal prices' sharp rise continuing.." - doesn't make sense

try this:

1. Aho, a Kiowa matriarch, held festivals in her home, they featured the preparation of great quantities of ceremonial food, the wearing of many layers of colorful clothing adorned with silver, and the recounting of traditional tribal jokes and stories.
(A) Aho, a Kiowa matriarch, held festivals in her home, they featured
(B) Festivals were held in Aho, a Kiowa matriarchs home, which featured
(C) Aho, who was a Kiowa matriarch in her home, held festivals featuring
(D) In her home, Aho, a Kiowa matriarch, held festivals that featured
(E) Aho, a Kiowa matriarch, held festivals in her home that featured

To start the discussion, I think the subject needs to be introduced 1st.

Aho is the name of a person and she is a Kiowa matriarch.
Aho held many festivals in her home.

A - "they" pronoun error
B - "..held in Aho" - Aho is a person not a place
C - "..who was a Kiowa matriarch in her home" - changes the meaning of the sentence. Sounds as if she was not a Kiowa matriarch outside her home.
E - "that" pronoun error
that refers to her home in this option

Therefore, IMO D

Try these:

1. According to a survey of graduating medical students conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas.
(A) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates in planning to practice
(B) minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than other graduates who plan on practicing
(C) minority graduates are nearly four times as likely as other graduates to plan on practicing
(D) it is nearly four times more likely that minority graduates rather than other graduates will plan to practice
(E) it is nearly four times as likely for minority graduates than other graduates to plan to practice

2. According to Booker T. Whatleys recent analysis, planting the same crops as are planted on large farms will lead to economic disaster for the small farmer, who should plan a succession of high-value crops that will provide a year-round cash flow.
(A) planting the same crops as are planted on large farms will lead to economic disaster for the small farmer, who
(B) it will lead to economic disaster for the small farmer to plant the same crops as on the large farms; they
(C) economic disaster will result from planting the same crops as large farms to the small farmer, who
(D) economic disaster for the small farmer will result from planting the same crops as on the large farms; they
(E) the small farmer planting the same crops as are planted on large farms will lead to economic disaster; they

3. According to Henry David Thoreau, the reason a majority is allowed to rule is not that it is more likely to be right, but because it is stronger.
(A) the reason a majority is allowed to rule is not that it is more likely to be right, but because it is stronger
(B) a majority is allowed to rule not because it is more likely to be right, but because it is stronger
(C) the reason for majority rule is not because they are more likely to be right, they are stronger
(D) the majority is allowed to rule because of its strength, not because it is more likely to be right
(E) the reason why the majority rules is that it is strong, not because it is likely to be right

4. According to his own account, Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty, modeled the face of the statue like his mothers and the body like his wifes.
(A) modeled the face of the statue like his mothers and the body like his wifes
(B) modeled the face of the statue after that of his mother and the body after that of his wife
(C) modeled the face of the statue like his mother and the body like his wife
(D) made the face of the statue after his mother and the body after his wife
(E) made the face of the statue look like his mother and the body look like his wife

IMO

1. C
"...likely...to plan" - corrent usage

2. A
"..small farmer,who.." - correct usage
B,D & E can be eliminated b'coz of modifier error
C changes the meaning "...planting the same crops as large farms to the small farmer.."

3. B
"..not...but.." - correct idiomatic expression
The other options are nor parallel

4. B
Parallel construction and "modeled after" is the correct idiomatic expression
The other options change the meaning of the sentence
"..like his mother.." - wrong usage in this context

answer is E. It happens in quant, so i started working for quant regularly now... here is another good one:
A cook went to a market to buy some eggs and paid $12. But since the eggs were quite small, he talked the seller into adding two more eggs, free of charge. As the two eggs were added, the price per dozen went down by a dollar. How many eggs did the cook bring home from the market?
A. 8
B. 12
C. 15
D. 16
E. 18

IMO E

However, i plugged in the answers choices to get the answer. Is there another way?

Option E

The cook brought back 18 eggs. Therefore, he/she paid Rs.12 for 16 eggs.

Rate of a dozen eggs:
I. (12*12)/18 = 8
II. (12*12)/16 = 9

Try this one

Two distinct manuscript traditions preserve nineteen plays of the Athenian tragedian Euripides, which surpasses the number of extant plays of both Aeschylus and Sophocles combined.


which surpasses the number of extant plays of both Aeschylus and Sophocles combined

surpassing the number of extant plays of both Aeschylus and Sophocles combined

which surpasses the number of plays extant from a combination of both Aeschylus and Sophocles


surpassing the combined number of plays of both Aeschylus and Sophocles being extant


which surpasses the combined number of plays of both Aeschylus and Sophocles being extant

Confused between A & B.

The OA is B

Why do we use "surpassing" instead of "which surpasses" in this sentence.

1. A special Japanese green tea called genmai-cha contains brown rice and is considered as a delicacy fit for a gourmet by most Japanese, though it is virtually unavailable outside Yokohama.

(A) A special Japanese green tea called genmai-cha contains brown rice and is considered as a delicacy fit for a gourmet by most Japanese, though it is virtually unavailable outside Yokohama.
(B) Considered to be a delicacy fit for a gourmet by most Japanese, genmai-cha is a special green tea that contains brown rice, virtually unavailable outside Yokohama.
(C) A special Japanese green tea called genmai-cha contains brown rice and is considered a gourmet delicacy by most Japanese, though it is virtually unavailable outside Yokohama.
(D) Most Japanese consider genmai-cha, a special green tea which contains brown rice, as a delicacy virtually unavailable outside Yokohama.
(E) Though virtually unavailable outside Yokohama, most Japanese consider genmai-cha, a special green tea that contains brown rice, a gourmet delicacy.

IMO C

A - uses "considered as"
B - modifier error "...brown rice, virtually unavailable"
D - uses "consider as"
E - modifier error "..unavailable outside Yokohama, most Japanese"