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(A) the proportion of judges and partners at major law firms who are women have not risen to a comparable extent
This one is a gift from the GMAT gods: “… the proportion of (blah blah)… HAVE not risen…”
Nope, that’s a classic subject-verb error. We can get rid of (A). Thank you for giving us something easy for once, GMAT!
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(B) the proportion of women judges and partners at major law firms have not risen comparably
(B) has exactly the same subject-verb error as (A): “… the proportion… HAVE not risen…” So (B) is gone, too.
Isn’t this exciting?
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(C) the proportion of judges and partners at major law firms who are women has not risen comparably
Well, this works just fine: “the proportion… has not risen comparably.” Let’s keep (C).
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(D) yet the proportion of women judges and partners at major law firms has not risen to a comparable extent
Well, there are two things that are different in (D) than in (C). One is that the word “comparably” is used in (C), but “to a comparable extent” appears in its place in (D). Honestly, I don’t know if this is a big deal. “Comparably” seems more succinct to me, but I’m not sure that “to a comparable extent” is necessarily WRONG. I certainly wouldn’t eliminate (D) based on that alone, even though I mildly prefer the shorter version in (C).
The other weird issue is the use of “yet” at the beginning of the underlined portion. So that gives us “Despite the increasing number of women…, yet the proportion of women judges…” That’s wrong: both “yet” and “despite” begin dependent clauses, so now the sentence just consists of two dependent clauses in a row. That’s not OK.
So (D) is out.
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(E) yet the proportion of judges and partners at major law firms who are women has not risen comparably
And (E) has exactly the same problem as (D): two consecutive dependent clauses does NOT give us a legitimate sentence.
So we can eliminate (E), and (C) is our answer.
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