rajathpanta wrote:
magicmanisha wrote:
I dint understand the Answer, can someone please tell me the OA
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
Nowhere they have used the correct idiom i.e. 'neither nor'
Here dont look for just the idiom. Look at the sentence as well. A,C and D can be ruled out because both the idiom usage and the sentence construction are wrong.
B has the correct idiom but 'or' after the comma does not give the correct meaning to the sentence.
E fits best.
Hope this helps.It is right that GMAT seldom test idiom, so better ignore them unless nothing else can be considered!
OA is E, and let's analyze the options from the parallelism angle: this is
a dual-level parallel question.
The context is saying that the "movement" is not leading to two bad results, and it is not displacing sth. that originally existed.
The two bad results are: (1) lower standards of living. (2) an unequal distribution of income.
(Use our common macro-economic sense, and we know that
the two issues are parallel, since either issue cannot explain the other.)
(A) leading neither to lower standards of living, more of an unequal distribution of income, orWrong.
(1) "more of" means "the thing mentioned above
really looks like blablabla". However, the latter is not used to explain the former.
(2) They are not parallel.
(B) leading neither to lower standards of living nor a more unequal distribution of income, orWrong.
(1) The structures "neither to lower standards of living" and "nor a more unequal distribution" are not parallel. A "to" in the latter is missing in the latter.
(2) Here the relationship of "leading" and "displacing" is wrong: This option is saying that one of them will occur (see "or" ), but in fact both will occur.
(C) not leading to either lower standards of living nor to more of an unequal distribution of income, and neither is itWrong.
(1) The structures "to either lower standards of living" and "nor to more of an unequal distribution" are not parallel.
(2) "and neither" looks really redundant. "neither" itself is enough.
(D) not leading to lower standards of living, more of an unequal distribution of income, and it is notWrong.
(1) "more of" means "the thing mentioned above
really looks like blablabla". However, the latter is not used to explain the former.
(2) Since this is a negative description, we do not prefer "and it is not". "nor" will be better.
(E) not leading to lower standards of living or to a more unequal distribution of income, nor is itCorrect.
Note that "nor is it" is an inversion.
BTW, seriously, by simply looking at the end of the sentence and considering the relationship between "leading" and "replacing", we can cross out "or" and "and". Then OA is E.