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Over the last 20 years, the growth of information technology [#permalink]
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Over the last 20 years, the growth of information technology has been more rapid than any other business field, but has recently begun to lag behind as newly emerging fields seem more enticing to new graduates. (A) the growth of information technology has been more rapid than any other business field (B) the growth of information technology has been more rapid than any other fields of business (C) information technology's growth has been more rapid than any other fields of business (D) the growing of information technology has been more rapid than that of any other business field (E) the growth of information technology has been more rapid than that of any other business field Please answer with explanations
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gmatchase wrote: Over the last 20 years, the growth of information technology has been more rapid than any other business field, but has recently begun to lag behind as newly emerging fields seem more enticing to new graduates.
(A) the growth of information technology has been more rapid than any other business field
(B) the growth of information technology has been more rapid than any other fields of business
(C) information technology's growth has been more rapid than any other fields of business
(D) the growing of information technology has been more rapid than that of any other business field
(E) the growth of information technology has been more rapid than that of any other business field
Please answer with explanations This question is about comparing apples to apples. "growth of information technology" should be compared with "growth of any other business field" and thatswhy A, B, C are incorrect. D is incorrect becasue of growing of information technology. Hence E is the correct answer. Cheers!
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Re: Over the last 20 years, the growth of information technology [#permalink]
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Capricorn369 wrote: gmatchase wrote: Over the last 20 years, the growth of information technology has been more rapid than any other business field, but has recently begun to lag behind as newly emerging fields seem more enticing to new graduates.
(A) the growth of information technology has been more rapid than any other business field
(B) the growth of information technology has been more rapid than any other fields of business
(C) information technology's growth has been more rapid than any other fields of business
(D) the growing of information technology has been more rapid than that of any other business field
(E) the growth of information technology has been more rapid than that of any other business field
Please answer with explanations This question is about comparing apples to apples. "growth of information technology" should be compared with "growth of any other business field" and thatswhy A, B, C are incorrect. D is incorrect becasue of growing of information technology. Hence E is the correct answer. Cheers! Great explanation from Capricorn369 already. Just wanted to chime in with a general suggestion on this type of mistake. Consider the following example: "My car's gas mileage is worse than your car." Same type of mistake here; we're comparing my car's gas mileage to you car. The GMAT loves to test this kind of comparison mistake – we're comparing an attribute of one object to another object itself. We need to compare object-to-object, atribute-to-atribute to stay logical. There are a couple ways to fix the problem in my example sentence: "My car's gas mileage is worse than your car's." "My car's gas mileage is worse than that of your car." "My car's gas mileage is worse than your car's gas mileage." These examples are all correct. The GMAT prefers the first two fixes because the third makes what they were testing too obvious. Moral of the story: whenever you notice this kind of mistake, look for the choices that include a possessive or "that" as a quick fix. Mark
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Re: Over the last 20 years, the growth of information technology [#permalink]
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gmatchase wrote: Over the last 20 years, the growth of information technology has been more rapid than any other business field, but has recently begun to lag behind as newly emerging fields seem more enticing to new graduates.
(A) the growth of information technology has been more rapid than any other business field
(B) the growth of information technology has been more rapid than any other fields of business
(C) information technology's growth has been more rapid than any other fields of business
(D) the growing of information technology has been more rapid than that of any other business field
(E) the growth of information technology has been more rapid than that of any other business field
Please answer with explanations Hi Gmatchase For any "Parallelism" type question, you should be on the lookout for markers i.e. something which connects a list. for ex. and, but, than etc. Here we find "than". Then you should see if it compares two similar entity. In this case the entity compared are "growth of information technology" and "any other business field" Here the entities are not parallel. You can either make the first entity similar to second entity or vice versa, whichever makes sense. The second entity should be changed to "growth of any other business field". Now you will have to resort to process of elimination The only option left out would be E which correctly uses relative pronoun "that" for "growth of". Hope it helps! 
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Re: Over the last 20 years, the growth of information technology [#permalink]
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Thank you Capricorn369, Mark & getgyan for the explanations.
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Re: Over the last 20 years, the growth of information technology [#permalink]
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Over the last 20 years, the growth of information technology has been more rapid than any other business field, but has recently begun to lag behind as newly emerging fields seem more enticing to new graduates. here GMAT is not that willing to test you over " business filed " and " field of business" anyone can be chosen as long as the rest of the sentence is right the " growth " we are talking about is the comparable parameter ; "than that" states that the "growth" in IT has been more than " any other business field" (A) the growth of information technology has been more rapid than any other business field (B) the growth of information technology has been more rapid than any other fields of business (C) information technology's growth has been more rapid than any other fields of business (D) the growing of information technology has been more rapid than that of any other business field (E) the growth of information technology has been more rapid than that of any other business field the only right choice-E
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Over the last 20 years, the growth of information technology has been more rapid than any other business field, but has recently begun to lag behind as newly emerging fields seem more enticing to new graduates.
(A) the growth of information technology has been more rapid than any other business field
(B) the growth of information technology has been more rapid than any other fields of business
(C) information technology's growth has been more rapid than any other fields of business
(D) the growing of information technology has been more rapid than that of any other business field
(E) the growth of information technology has been more rapid than that of any other business field
A, B, C ruled out because they are comparing growth to business field
D ruled out because of ' growing '
Correct answer E
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Re: Over the last 20 years, the growth of information technology [#permalink]
06 Oct 2012, 11:19
E is the right choice because it compares growth of Information technology with the growth of other business fields.
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