saikarthikreddy wrote:
A 2009 study from the California State Housing Authority concluded that conversion from ownership to rental properties has often been difficult; it has been more common for some townhouses and other “attached” homes that are relatively small and old, located in central cities.
(A) difficult; it has been more common for some townhouses and other “attached” homes that are relatively small and old, located in central cities.
(B) difficult; it has been more common for some townhouses and other “attached” homes that are relatively small, old, and that are located in central cities.
(C) difficult; it has been more common for some townhouses and other “attached” homes, which are relatively small and old, and located in central cities.
(D) difficult: It has been more common for some townhouses and other “attached” homes that are relatively small and old and located in central cities.
(E) difficult: It has been more common for some townhouses and other “attached” homes that are relatively small and old, and located in central cities.
pjaseem wrote:
I dont get why B is wrong ???? B is similar to D except for the length .
dheeraj24 wrote:
Hi Mike ,
The OA for this question is D. Need you help in Understanding choice B. If we add "and" between small and old [removing comma in between them ], the sentence looks like this.
b)difficult; it has been more common for some townhouses and other “attached” homes that are relatively small and old, and that are located in central cities.
can i expect parallelism in above case ?
and also could you please explain me is "that are" implied in Option D after "and".
and also could you please explain me the difference between choice B and D .
Thanks in advance.
Help is appreciated
Dear
pjaseem: I'm happy to help.
Dear
dheeraj24: I'm happy to respond to your private message.
First, I will say: usually Veritas practice SC questions are very good, but I am not really fond of this one. This one seems far too detail-oriented, picayune, in a way that the GMAT SC is not. For example, choices
(A) -
(C) have semicolons, and choices
(D) -
(E) have full colons: among other things, the sentence seems to be testing punctuation directly. This is something the real GMAT
never does.
The differences between the five answer choices are minute, compared to the size of the underlined section. Also, not very GMAT-like.
The problem with
(B) is: the Parallelism is an absolute disaster. These options would be correct:
that are relatively small and old and located in central cities (three modifiers in parallel:
P and Q and R)
that are relatively small, old, and located in central cities (three modifiers in parallel:
P, Q, and R)
that are relatively small and old, and that are located in central cities (two parallel "
that" clauses)
Now, look at
(B):
that are relatively small, old, and that are located in central cities = a disaster
What are we trying to put in in parallel? If we want to put the two "
that" clauses in parallel, then the adjectives in the first clause need a conjunction between them. It would be correct simply to have a comma between "
small" and "
old" if we were constructing the
P, Q, and R parallel structure above, but individual adjectives cannot be in parallel to a "
that" clause!! There is absolutely no sensible way to interpret this structure as a legitimate form of parallelism. It is a complete failure of parallelism, arguably the "most wrong" of the five answer choices.
Does all this make sense?
Mike
Yes MIKE even I agree on the deviation from GMAT standard for this question. Thanks for reply.