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A new genetically engineered papaya was produced not by seed companies who have been motivated by profit, which was the case with most genetically modified crops previously approved for commercial use, but university and United States Department of Agriculture researchers who allowed growers to use it free of charge.

A. produced not by seed companies who have been motivated by profit, which was the case with most genetically modified crops previously approved for commercial use, but

B. produced not by profit-motivated seed companies, the case with most genetically modified crops previously approved for commercial use, but

C. produced not by profit-motivated seed companies, as was the case with most genetically modified crops previously approved for commercial use, but by

D. not produced by profit-motivated seed companies, which was the case with most genetically modified crops previously approved for commercial use, but was produced by

E. not produced by seed companies who have been motivated by profit, the case with most genetically modified crops previously approved for commercial use, but by


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Re: A new genetically engineered papaya was produced not by seed companies [#permalink] New post   30 Nov 2017, 20:12
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A new genetically engineered papaya was produced not by seed companies who have been motivated by profit, which was the case with most genetically modified crops previously approved for commercial use, but university and United States Department of Agriculture researchers who allowed growers to use it free of charge.

A produced not by seed companies who have been motivated by profit, which was the case with most genetically modified crops previously approved for commercial use, but
B produced not by profit-motivated seed companies, the case with most genetically modified crops previously approved for commercial use, but
C produced not by profit-motivated seed companies, as was the case with most genetically modified crops previously approved for commercial use, but by
D not produced by profit-motivated seed companies, which was the case with most genetically modified crops previously approved for commercial use, but was produced by
E not produced by seed companies who have been motivated by profit, the case with most genetically modified crops previously approved for commercial use, but by

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Where a modifier is placed changes the meaning.

In D and E:
Not PRODUCED by seed companies.
Not modifies the verb: not THIS VERB but THAT VERB.
For example:
Not PRODUCED by seed companies but CONSUMED by seed companies.
Not PRODUCED by seed companies but OFFERED by seed companies.
Since the SC above is not comparing one action of seed companies to another action of seed companies, the placement of not before PRODUCED is incorrect.
Eliminate D and E.

Produced not BY SEED COMPANIES.
Not modifies the prepositional phrase: produced not BY THIS but BY THAT.
Produced not BY SEED COMPANIES but BY RESEARCHERS.
This is the intended meaning of the SC above.

In A, not by seed companies...but university and United States Department of Agriculture researchers lacks parallelism. Eliminate A.

In B, not by profit-motivated seed companies...but university and United States Department of Agriculture researchers lacks parallelism. Eliminate B.

The correct answer is C.

Only C offers the correct -- and parallel -- comparison:

...produced not by profit-motivated seed companies...but by university and United States Department of Agriculture researchers...
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Re: A new genetically engineered papaya was produced not by seed companies [#permalink] New post   23 Jul 2005, 05:26
My answer is C. Nice question BTW.

C is concise and maintains the parallelism by using - "not by" "but by"

D comes close, but "not produced by" and "but produced by" is not parallel

I rejected A, B and E on the grounds that "the case with most genetically modified...." is awkward.
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Re: A new genetically engineered papaya was produced not by seed companies [#permalink] New post   23 Jul 2005, 05:47
Barely managed to pick C.

Could eliminate D and E ,as "not produced"...would lead to "profit-minded companies still being responsible although they might not have produced them ( probably they acquired them ).

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Re: A new genetically engineered papaya was produced not by seed companies [#permalink] New post   23 Jul 2005, 06:15
C

A and B - No. Lacks Parallel structure. Should be "but by"
C - Keep. Not happy with "profit-motivated". It should parallel "who allowed growers to use it free of charge".
D - No. Wordy.
E - No. "the case with most genetcally modified crops..." wrongly modifies the "the papaya was not produced by seed companies"


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Re: A new genetically engineered papaya was produced not by seed companies [#permalink] New post   23 Jul 2005, 08:12
You are right, OA is C.
But well, from allthose explanations I cannot see the difference between В and C. I'm not a native speaker, so there's no difference for me between "not produced by" and "produced not by" ;)

Can anyone explain the difference more clearly? I would appreciate... :)
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Re: A new genetically engineered papaya was produced not by seed companies [#permalink] New post   23 Jul 2005, 09:31
You need paralellism

Not by.... but by

B is missing a by after but.

Usually, you have to put the verb out and make the comparison by the predicate of the verb.

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Re: A new genetically engineered papaya was produced not by seed companies [#permalink] New post   24 Jul 2005, 23:40
riteshgupta1 wrote:
B is missing a by after but.

A-a-a-a! Now I got the difference :) Thanks a lot!
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Re: A new genetically engineered papaya was produced not by seed companies [#permalink] New post   23 Aug 2007, 06:04
Easy question.
You can make an idiom : not by X, but by Y - I think I met it in sentence correcton bible (Manhattan)
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Re: A new genetically engineered papaya was produced not by seed companies [#permalink] New post   14 Feb 2015, 00:37
THe option C maintains the parellelism perfectly and is concise and gives the intended meaning.
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Re: A new genetically engineered papaya was produced not by seed companies [#permalink] New post   14 Feb 2015, 01:11
c

parallelism - not by ....but by.. :-D
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Re: A new genetically engineered papaya was produced not by seed companies [#permalink] New post   06 Sep 2018, 03:36
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Between C and D

D - "which was the case with most genetically modified crops"

Here which modifies a clause(action) of produced by X company >> wrong. "Which is a noun modifier and hence is incorrectly used to modify action.

C is correct as the sentence structure tries to put up a comparison with the help of the comparison marker "as"

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Re: A new genetically engineered papaya was produced not by seed companies [#permalink] New post   29 Jan 2019, 07:28
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A new genetically engineered papaya was produced not by seed companies who have been motivated by profit, which was the case with most genetically modified crops previously approved for commercial use, but university and United States Department of Agriculture researchers who allowed growers to use it free of charge.


A produced not by seed companies who have been motivated by profit, which was the case with most genetically modified crops previously approved for commercial use, but

B produced not by profit-motivated seed companies, the case with most genetically modified crops previously approved for commercial use, but

C produced not by profit-motivated seed companies, as was the case with most genetically modified crops previously approved for commercial use, but by

D not produced by profit-motivated seed companies, which was the case with most genetically modified crops previously approved for commercial use, but was produced by

E not produced by seed companies who have been motivated by profit, the case with most genetically modified crops previously approved for commercial use, but by


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In choice (C),
..,as was the case with most...

here, what is the subject of the verb "was"? GMATinsight

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" As was the case wirth ...."This is just an inverted clause. The subject is 'the case' and the verb 'was'
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Re: A new genetically engineered papaya was produced not by seed companies [#permalink] New post   18 Feb 2019, 03:04
"as was the case with X" is an idiom we should remember . it is used to show that the two action is in the same way

as was the case with you, I passed gmat

if we apply this phrase in choice C, "as was the case..." must modify the whole preceding clause. the result is a no sense meaning.

choice C is terribly wrong

of course, I choose C
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Re: A new genetically engineered papaya was produced not by seed companies [#permalink] New post   01 Dec 2020, 23:11
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Pauline wrote:
A new genetically engineered papaya was produced not by seed companies who have been motivated by profit, which was the case with most genetically modified crops previously approved for commercial use, but university and United States Department of Agriculture researchers who allowed growers to use it free of charge.


A produced not by seed companies who have been motivated by profit, which was the case with most genetically modified crops previously approved for commercial use, but

B produced not by profit-motivated seed companies, the case with most genetically modified crops previously approved for commercial use, but

C produced not by profit-motivated seed companies, as was the case with most genetically modified crops previously approved for commercial use, but by

D not produced by profit-motivated seed companies, which was the case with most genetically modified crops previously approved for commercial use, but was produced by

E not produced by seed companies who have been motivated by profit, the case with most genetically modified crops previously approved for commercial use, but by


This question is based on Parallelism and Modifiers.

The correlative conjunctions ‘not-but’ indicate the need to maintain parallelism in the sentence. To maintain parallelism, each of the pair of correlative conjunctions must be followed by a word of the same part of speech.
In Options A and B, the first of the pair – not – is followed by the preposition ‘by’ but the second of the pair – but – is not followed by a preposition. In both the options, the noun ‘university’ is placed immediately after the conjunction ‘but’. So, Options A and B can be eliminated.

Option D also lacks parallelism. The auxiliary verb ‘was’ is unnecessarily repeated after the conjunction ‘but’ since it has been placed before the conjunction ‘not’.
Furthermore, the pronoun ‘which’ refers to companies, making the modifier illogical. The meaning conveyed by the modifier as it is in Option D is that companies was the case with most….use. The intended meaning is that the case is that genetically modified crops are usually manufactured by profit-motivated seed companies. So, Option D can be eliminated.

Option E also lacks parallelism. The conjunction ‘not’ is followed by the verb ‘produced’; the conjunction ‘but’ is followed by the preposition ‘by’. So, Option E can be eliminated.

Option C maintains parallelism. The modifier “as was the case with most genetically modified crops previously approved for commercial use” also logically modifies the clause before it. Therefore, C is the most appropriate option.

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Re: A new genetically engineered papaya was produced not by seed companies [#permalink] New post   25 Sep 2023, 10:00
Just a general question about the GMAT prep questions.
Why are most of the high level GMAT Prep questions ranked SUB 500? I mean, I am so sure this question is not a sub 500 level question but for some reason, most of the high level questions from GMAT prep are sub categorised under Sub 500 level. Is there any reason for it?
Can anyone shed some light on the same?
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Re: A new genetically engineered papaya was produced not by seed companies [#permalink] New post   25 Sep 2023, 10:12
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jainanant909 wrote:
Just a general question about the GMAT prep questions.
Why are most of the high level GMAT Prep questions ranked SUB 500? I mean, I am so sure this question is not a sub 500 level question but for some reason, most of the high level questions from GMAT prep are sub categorised under Sub 500 level. Is there any reason for it?
Can anyone shed some light on the same?


We do not assign the difficulty level manually. The difficulty level of a question on the site is determined automatically based on various parameters collected from users' attempts, such as the percentage of correct answers and the time taken to answer the question. You can find the difficulty level of a question and its related statistics in the first post. Furthermore, only 25% of the SC GMAT Prep questions (https://gmatclub.com/forum/search.php?s ... mit=Search) are categorized as sub-500 (https://gmatclub.com/forum/search.php?s ... mit=Search), which indicates that your evaluation may not be accurate.

Hope it clarifies.
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