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GMAT Prep Question - PLS help!!! SC [#permalink] New post   05 Aug 2006, 17:39
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Re: GMAT Prep Question - PLS help!!! SC [#permalink] New post   05 Aug 2006, 18:07
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Re: GMAT Prep Question - PLS help!!! SC [#permalink] New post   05 Aug 2006, 21:59
C is correct.

D and E are straight out. The proliferation led to the passage of act NOT to the act.

A could have been correct if "X led to passing of Y". Also what is allowing companies to seek something? Proliferation or the act???

B is out because "which" is referring to the year 1999 not the act.

C properly use "proliferation of X led to passage of Y" and "which" is properly referring to act.
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Re: GMAT Prep Question - PLS help!!! SC [#permalink] New post   05 Aug 2006, 22:06
ps_dahiya wrote:
C is correct.

D and E are straight out. The proliferation led to the passage of act NOT to the act.

A could have been correct if "X led to passing of Y". Also what is allowing companies to seek something? Proliferation or the act???

B is out because "which" is referring to the year 1999 not the act.

C properly use "proliferation of X led to passage of Y" and "which" is properly referring to act.


Additionally:

1. The passage of ~ is idiomatic
2. "They" in B doesn`t have a clear referent.

Although (C) is passive, it is grammatically flawless.
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Re: GMAT Prep Question - PLS help!!! SC [#permalink] New post   08 Aug 2006, 04:37
ps_dahiya wrote:
C is correct.

A could have been correct if "X led to passing of Y". Also what is allowing companies to seek something? Proliferation or the act???



Doesn't allowing and other -ing words just after a comma refer to the known closest to it...which in this case would be the Act

Or do they refer to the whole clause
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Re: GMAT Prep Question - PLS help!!! SC [#permalink] New post   09 Aug 2006, 00:51
dwivedys wrote:
sumitsarkar82 wrote:
ps_dahiya wrote:
C is correct.

A could have been correct if "X led to passing of Y". Also what is allowing companies to seek something? Proliferation or the act???



Doesn't allowing and other -ing words just after a comma refer to the known closest to it...which in this case would be the Act

Or do they refer to the whole clause


That's correct. IMO there's no confusion here.


Didn't get you...

Which one out of these...

Doesn't allowing and other -ing words just after a comma refer to the known closest to it...which in this case would be the Act Or do they refer to the whole clause
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Re: GMAT Prep Question - PLS help!!! SC [#permalink] New post   09 Aug 2006, 01:00
sumitsarkar82 wrote:
dwivedys wrote:
sumitsarkar82 wrote:
ps_dahiya wrote:
C is correct.

A could have been correct if "X led to passing of Y". Also what is allowing companies to seek something? Proliferation or the act???



Doesn't allowing and other -ing words just after a comma refer to the known closest to it...which in this case would be the Act

Or do they refer to the whole clause


That's correct. IMO there's no confusion here.


Didn't get you...

Which one out of these...

Doesn't allowing and other -ing words just after a comma refer to the known closest to it...which in this case would be the Act Or do they refer to the whole clause


Oh .. I meant it will modify the "act". Ing words usually don't modify the whole clause.
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Re: GMAT Prep Question - PLS help!!! SC [#permalink] New post   09 Aug 2006, 22:31
its C, but I hate these posts where the OA can be seen upfront....my brain stops thinking at that point :)
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Re: GMAT Prep Question - PLS help!!! SC [#permalink] New post   09 Aug 2006, 22:56
Will go with C

A - "passing" is incorrect.
B - "which" incorrectly modifies 1999. also ambiguous "them"
D - ambiguous "it"
E - Proliferation led to act and allowing companies....... incorrect



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