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In recent years, troubled airlines have exchanged their aging, inefficient fleets for a smaller number of efficient new airplanes, in part because high fuel costs should be lowered and repair costs should be reduced and partly because low entry barriers for new carriers have created intense competition. (A) in part because high fuel costs should be lowered and repair costs should be reduced (B) in part that high fuel costs might be lowered and repair costs might be reduced (C) partly because high fuel costs should be lowered and repair costs should be reduced your answer (D) partly for the lowering of high fuel costs and the reduction of repair costs (E) partly to lower high fuel prices and reduce repair costs Hi guys, Shouldn't (E) be "to lower... AND to reduce" to be parallel? Why is it optional? I picked C because of it has explicit parallel structure even though it sounds very awkward!
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I agree. It should be " partly TO lower high fuel prices and TO reduce repair costs".
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Can anyone explain... why E and not C???
I also thought it to be C...
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The answer is E.
C is wordy and thus eliminated
Consider this :
Mary likes to eat and dance. ("We can share the infinitive form b/w the two verbs")
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DYNAMITE wrote: In recent years, troubled airlines have exchanged their aging, inefficient fleets for a smaller number of efficient new airplanes, in part because high fuel costs should be lowered and repair costs should be reduced and partly because low entry barriers for new carriers have created intense competition.
(A) in part because high fuel costs should be lowered and repair costs should be reduced
(B) in part that high fuel costs might be lowered and repair costs might be reduced
(C) partly because high fuel costs should be lowered and repair costs should be reduced your answer
(D) partly for the lowering of high fuel costs and the reduction of repair costs
(E) partly to lower high fuel prices and reduce repair costs
Hi guys,
Shouldn't (E) be "to lower... AND to reduce" to be parallel? Why is it optional? I picked C because of it has explicit parallel structure even though it sounds very awkward! No, it is still parallel because you cut off at the same point for each item on the list: PARTLY TO 1. lower fuel costs 2. reduce repair costs Parallelism is not just about making two items in a list look stylistically and logically similar. It is about splitting off at the same point for each item. This may help you visualize the concept: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/diagrams2/diagram10.htm
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DYNAMITE wrote: In recent years, troubled airlines have exchanged their aging, inefficient fleets for a smaller number of efficient new airplanes, in part because high fuel costs should be lowered and repair costs should be reduced and partly because low entry barriers for new carriers have created intense competition.
(A) in part because high fuel costs should be lowered and repair costs should be reduced
(B) in part that high fuel costs might be lowered and repair costs might be reduced
(C) partly because high fuel costs should be lowered and repair costs should be reduced your answer
(D) partly for the lowering of high fuel costs and the reduction of repair costs
(E) partly to lower high fuel prices and reduce repair costs
Hi guys,
Shouldn't (E) be "to lower... AND to reduce" to be parallel? Why is it optional? I picked C because of it has explicit parallel structure even though it sounds very awkward! Has to E. you dont need to repeat the infinitive again because of the usage of conjunction 'and'.
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DYNAMITE wrote: In recent years, troubled airlines have exchanged their aging, inefficient fleets for a smaller number of efficient new airplanes, in part because high fuel costs should be lowered and repair costs should be reduced and partly because low entry barriers for new carriers have created intense competition.
(A) in part because high fuel costs should be lowered and repair costs should be reduced
(B) in part that high fuel costs might be lowered and repair costs might be reduced
(C) partly because high fuel costs should be lowered and repair costs should be reduced your answer
(D) partly for the lowering of high fuel costs and the reduction of repair costs
(E) partly to lower high fuel prices and reduce repair costs
Hi guys,
Shouldn't (E) be "to lower... AND to reduce" to be parallel? Why is it optional? I picked C because of it has explicit parallel structure even though it sounds very awkward! I have a doubt. The two parallel elements that i am comparing have been higlighted below- 'partly to' and 'partly because'. Shouldn't both the parallel elements start with partly because as in option 'C'? partly to lower high fuel prices and reduce repair costs and partly because low entry barriers for new carriers have created intense competition.
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Re: In recent years, troubled airlines have exchanged their [#permalink]
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Can someone please explain reasons to eliminate C ? Why E is better over C in terms of parallelism ?
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Re: In recent years, troubled airlines have exchanged their [#permalink]
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DYNAMITE wrote: In recent years, troubled airlines have exchanged their aging, inefficient fleets for a smaller number of efficient new airplanes, in part because high fuel costs should be lowered and repair costs should be reduced and partly because low entry barriers for new carriers have created intense competition.
(A) in part because high fuel costs should be lowered and repair costs should be reduced
(B) in part that high fuel costs might be lowered and repair costs might be reduced
(C) partly because high fuel costs should be lowered and repair costs should be reduced your answer
(D) partly for the lowering of high fuel costs and the reduction of repair costs
(E) partly to lower high fuel prices and reduce repair costs
Hi guys,
Shouldn't (E) be "to lower... AND to reduce" to be parallel? Why is it optional? I picked C because of it has explicit parallel structure even though it sounds very awkward! its easy to eliminate A,B looking at the non underlined part..among C,D & E (C) partly because high fuel costs should be lowered and repair costs should be reduced your answer - should is a subjunctive verb and can not be used when the intent is definite. Here the fleets are replaced to reducefuel cost..... not that fleets are reduced because fuel cost should be reduced... (D) partly for the lowering of high fuel costs and the reduction of repair costs - this is not the best construction (E) partly to lower high fuel prices and reduce repair costs -Correct B is wrong - we do x to achieve y. we do x so that y should be achieved. (Is the difference visible??) E- is right- infinitives are used in two ways- 1. to do,to think,to make and to reach. 2. to do,think,make and reach. either to should be used with every verb in the list or should be used only once in the beginning of the list. to do,make,think and to reach - this is an incorrect construction. Hope this helps! 
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Re: In recent years, troubled airlines have exchanged their [#permalink]
05 Oct 2012, 08:16
Quote: should is a subjective verb and can not be used when the intent is definite Can you please throw more light on the acceptable usage of SHOULD ?
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anshunadir wrote: Quote: should is a subjective verb and can not be used when the intent is definite Can you please throw more light on the acceptable usage of SHOULD ? B is wrong - we do x to achieve y. we do x so that y should be achieved. (Is the difference visible??)
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