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This process resulted in a total of 15 new townships: of

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This process resulted in a total of 15 new townships: of [#permalink] New post   04 May 2010, 08:29
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This process resulted in a total of 15 new townships: of which, to date, 7 are still in existence.

* of which, to date, 7 are still in existence.
* of which number, 7 of the 15 are still, to date, in existence.
* of the number 15, 7, to date, are still in existence.
* to date of these 15, 7 are still in existence.
* to date, 7 of the 15 are still in existence.


Guys what do you think about the usage of "still in existence" in ALL the options.. I think "still exist"(though not given in options) is a better usage.



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Re: This process resulted in a total of 15 new townships: of [#permalink] New post   05 May 2010, 07:55
Guys what do you think about the usage of "still in existence" in ALL the options.. I think "still exist"(though not given in options) is a better usage.

>>> will it be 'still exists' or 'still exist'?

from the given options, i like (A)...what is the OA?
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Re: This process resulted in a total of 15 new townships: of [#permalink] New post   05 May 2010, 13:41
imo A

reason: best "of which" construct.

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Re: This process resulted in a total of 15 new townships: of [#permalink] New post   08 Jul 2010, 16:50
i thought you can't start off with a prepositional phrase (of which) after a colon... it just doesn't make sense.

unless the original sentence above is miswritten, i would go with E...

The following should be correct though:

This process resulted in a total of 15 new townships, 7 of which, to date, are still in existence.
This process resulted in a total of 15 new townships: 7 of them are still in existence.
etc.

correct subgroup modifiers:
some of which are ...
some of them ...
some ...
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Re: This process resulted in a total of 15 new townships: of [#permalink] New post   08 Jul 2010, 18:07
A...The rest have poor grammar and they all repeat 15 which to me seems as gmat redundancy
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Re: This process resulted in a total of 15 new townships: of [#permalink] New post   13 Jul 2010, 07:13
I am quite confused here between A and E.

can someone explain?
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Re: This process resulted in a total of 15 new townships: of [#permalink] New post   13 Jul 2010, 07:50
110% A. Others are just to be killed :-)
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Re: This process resulted in a total of 15 new townships: of [#permalink] New post   13 Jul 2010, 08:33
the answer has to be E..
What we have in the question is a colon (:) and we can never start an an independent clause after a colon..
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Re: This process resulted in a total of 15 new townships: of [#permalink] New post   29 May 2011, 09:44
Mahattan SC said the correct answer is not necessarily the perfect sentence, it is just the best of all answer choices. It may sound wordy but it has best grammar of all, it can still be the answer.

Moreover, in Mahattan SC, concision is the last to consider, it means we should consider grammar before concision.

This is from Gmatclub test and the official answer is E. However I don't know what's wrong with A too :(
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Re: This process resulted in a total of 15 new townships: of [#permalink] New post   29 May 2011, 17:12
+1 A
We need the most clear and least ambiguous pronoun. "which" is that pronoun.

Yes, "still exist" would be better because is more concise. However, you must understand that the GMAT can show a question which is not perfect. (Hey, I don't make the test!)



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