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A group of FBI investigators, in connection with the 1975 disappearance of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa, are searching a small area of a rural Milford Township horse farm.A. A group of FBI investigators, in connection with the 1975 disappearance of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa, are searching a small area of a rural Milford Township horse farm. B. A group of FBI investigators, in connection with the 1975 disappearance of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa, is searching a rural Milford Township horse farm, a small area within. C. A group of FBI investigators, searching a small area of a rural Milford Township horse farm, is connected with the 1975 disappearance of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa. D. A group of FBI investigators, in connection with the 1975 disappearance of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa, is searching a small area of a rural Milford Township horse farm. E. A small area of a rural Milford Township horse farm is being searched by a group of FBI investigators in connection with the 1975 disappearance of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa
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+1E A group is singular, in connection with wrongly modifies investigators, eliminate A “A small area within” is unnecessarily wordy, in connection with wrongly modifies investigators, eliminate B Group of investigators is not connected with the 1975 disappearance, eliminate C. Changes the meaning in connection with wrongly modifies investigators, eliminate D 
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souvik101990 wrote: A group of FBI investigators, in connection with the 1975 disappearance of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa, are searching a small area of a rural Milford Township horse farm.
A. A group of FBI investigators, in connection with the 1975 disappearance of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa, are searching a small area of a rural Milford Township horse farm.
B. A group of FBI investigators, in connection with the 1975 disappearance of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa, is searching a rural Milford Township horse farm, a small area within.
C. A group of FBI investigators, searching a small area of a rural Milford Township horse farm, is connected with the 1975 disappearance of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa.
D. A group of FBI investigators, in connection with the 1975 disappearance of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa, is searching a small area of a rural Milford Township horse farm.
E. A small area of a rural Milford Township horse farm is being searched by a group of FBI investigators in connection with the 1975 disappearance of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa Should be D. A - "are" doesn't go with "A group of investigators" WRONG B- "searching a rural Milford Township horse farm, a small area within" awkward construction WRONG C- Changes the meaning of the original sentence WRONG D- CORRECT E- has several problems, use passive voice and also use of "being", which is not preferred. WRONG
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E for me too.
I initially rejected it because of the passive voice, but none of the other choices make sense. The first criteria should be singular / plural, this eliminates A.. C basically means that the team is responsible for the crime, thus modifying the meaning.
The problem with B and D is that they both put a necessary information within double commas. I also agree with the concision point mentioned by getgyan.
Would be happy to see some more comments.
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Cool, this was really a good question. Great to see Ron accepting the issue with the question. 
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souvik101990 wrote: Thanks for sharing. This a MGMAT question whose OA is wrong. This means MGMAT might not have used the same set of options otherwise. I think in the light of GMAT, question itself is flawed.
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