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A higher interest rate is only one of the factors, albeit an important one, that keeps the housing market from spiraling out of control, like it did earlier in the decade.
A. that keeps the housing market from spiraling out of control, like it did earlier in the decade.
B. that keep the housing market from spiraling out of control, as it did earlier in the decade
C. that keeps the housing market from spiraling out of control, as it did earlier in the decade
D. that keep the housing market from spiraling out of control, like earlier in the decade
E. that keep the housing market from spiraling out of control, like it did earlier in the decade
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Re: SC - Housing Market [#permalink]
06 Jun 2006, 18:41
ninadk wrote: A higher interest rate is only one of the factors, albeit an important one, that keeps the housing market from spiraling out of control, like it did earlier in the decade.
A. that keeps the housing market from spiraling out of control, like it did earlier in the decade.
B. that keep the housing market from spiraling out of control, as it did earlier in the decade
C. that keeps the housing market from spiraling out of control, as it did earlier in the decade
D. that keep the housing market from spiraling out of control, like earlier in the decade
E. that keep the housing market from spiraling out of control, like it did earlier in the decade
i suppose "albeit an important one" refers to "A higher interest rate" and choose C over B.
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Re: SC - Housing Market [#permalink]
06 Jun 2006, 19:04
Professor wrote: i suppose "albeit an important one" refers to "A higher interest rate" and choose C over B.
Prof, I know I suck at SCs.. but
Isn't "one of the factors that keep" correct?..
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Re: SC - Housing Market [#permalink]
06 Jun 2006, 19:26
giddi77 wrote: Professor wrote: i suppose "albeit an important one" refers to "A higher interest rate" and choose C over B. Prof, I know I suck at SCs.. but Isn't "one of the factors that keep" correct?.. Yea kinda...but here it is the high interest rate that keeps...
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Going with C.
' A higher interest rate.......keeps '.
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Re: SC - Housing Market [#permalink]
06 Jun 2006, 20:33
gmatmba wrote: giddi77 wrote: Professor wrote: i suppose "albeit an important one" refers to "A higher interest rate" and choose C over B. Prof, I know I suck at SCs.. but Isn't "one of the factors that keep" correct?.. Yea kinda...but here it is the high interest rate that keeps... Thanks buddy! Now I get it  .. from the second part "it" should refer to a singular noun - A higher interest rate - that keeps
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Straight C ... "one of the....keeps" ... is the right way ...and "as" is preferred over "like" ...
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Straight forward C. Interset rate is singluar hence keeps.
Factors didnot keep the housing rates from spiralling ..... tangible things did like interest rate etc.
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Re: SC - Housing Market [#permalink]
07 Jun 2006, 00:07
giddi77 wrote: gmatmba wrote: giddi77 wrote: Professor wrote: i suppose "albeit an important one" refers to "A higher interest rate" and choose C over B. Prof, I know I suck at SCs.. but Isn't "one of the factors that keep" correct?.. Yea kinda...but here it is the high interest rate that keeps... Thanks buddy! Now I get it .. from the second part "it" should refer to a singular noun - A higher interest rate - that keepsCorrect.
C should be the answer.
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C:
'keeps' goes with singular "interest rate"
We are comparing the act of spiralling of the interest rate this year and last year, therefore merits the usage of 'as'
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Re: SC - Housing Market [#permalink]
07 Jun 2006, 09:20
giddi77 wrote: Professor wrote: i suppose "albeit an important one" refers to "A higher interest rate" and choose C over B. Prof, I know I suck at SCs.. but Isn't "one of the factors that keep" correct?.. SC was my easiest part of GMAT but nowadays i am loosing my confidence and concentration on SC. now i also started to be sucked at SCs. 
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OA is 'B'
Here is the explanation given,
The original sentence states that "a higher interest rate is only one of the factors...that keeps..." The clause "that keeps the housing market from spiraling out of control" is describing the word "factors." Since "factors" is plural noun and "keeps" agrees with singular nouns, we need to find a sentence that replaces "keeps" with "keep". Also, "like it did earlier in the decade" is incorrect. When comparing clauses (i.e., a phrase containing a subject and a verb), we must use "as" instead of "like." For example, "She sings like her mother" and "She sings as her mother does" are both correct, but "She sings like her mother does" is not.
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ninadk wrote: OA is 'B'
Here is the explanation given,
The original sentence states that "a higher interest rate is only one of the factors...that keeps..." The clause "that keeps the housing market from spiraling out of control" is describing the word "factors." Since "factors" is plural noun and "keeps" agrees with singular nouns, we need to find a sentence that replaces "keeps" with "keep". Also, "like it did earlier in the decade" is incorrect. When comparing clauses (i.e., a phrase containing a subject and a verb), we must use "as" instead of "like." For example, "She sings like her mother" and "She sings as her mother does" are both correct, but "She sings like her mother does" is not.
That's a 
I thought the same but I got confused by "it".
Well, although 'it' refers to "A higher interest rate", "keep" refers to "factors".
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ninadk wrote: OA is 'B'
Here is the explanation given,
The original sentence states that "a higher interest rate is only one of the factors...that keeps..." The clause "that keeps the housing market from spiraling out of control" is describing the word "factors." Since "factors" is plural noun and "keeps" agrees with singular nouns, we need to find a sentence that replaces "keeps" with "keep". Also, "like it did earlier in the decade" is incorrect. When comparing clauses (i.e., a phrase containing a subject and a verb), we must use "as" instead of "like." For example, "She sings like her mother" and "She sings as her mother does" are both correct, but "She sings like her mother does" is not.
Good question. I also chose C but now I realized the mistake. Lesson learned is "read carefully" and keep all the options open.
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...one of plural that do...
A higher interest rate is only one of the factors, albeit an important one, that keep the housing market from spiraling out of control, as it did earlier in the decade.
vertically compared to #14 from the Brutal SC list
Biologists believe that they have found one of the substances that tell individual genes both when to become active and when to remain quiescent in the earliest phases of an embryo's development.
Hope this helps.
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