A recent study has found amoxicillin, long a standard treatment for

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A recent study has found  amoxicillin, long a standard treatment for ear infections, as being about as effective as newer, more expensive antibiotics and causing  fewer side effects.

(A) amoxicillin, long a standard treatment for ear infections, as being about as effective as newer, more expensive antibiotics and causing

(B) amoxicillin, long a standard treatment for ear infections, to be about as effective compared to newer, more expensive antibiotics and with

(C) amoxicillin, long a standard treatment for ear infections, to be about as effective as newer, more expensive antibiotics and that it causes

(D) that amoxicillin, long a standard treatment for ear infections, is about as effective as newer, more expensive antibiotics and causes

(E) that amoxicillin, long a standard treatment for ear infections, is about as effective compared to newer, more expensive antibiotics and with

GMATNinja · Accepted Answer

Here is what the sentence looks like with the correct answer choice (D):

"A recent study has found that amoxicillin, long a standard treatment for ear infections, is about as effective as newer, more expensive antibiotics and causes fewer side effects."

If we add a "that" in the middle of "and causes", we will have a parallelism issue... "A recent study has found that amoxicillin is effective and that causes fewer side effects." The noun "amoxicillin" appears after "that", so if you add another "that", you'd have to add another noun, i.e. "A recent study has found that amoxicillin is effective and that patients prefer amoxicillin to other antibiotics."

As is, the sentence correctly creates a list of the two parallel verbs "is" and "causes": "... that amoxicillin  is ... and  causes ..."

Zarrolou · Answer

A recent study has found  amoxicillin, long a standard treatment for ear infections, as being about as effective as newer, more expensive antibiotics and causing  fewer side effects.

(D) that amoxicillin, long a standard treatment for ear infections, is about as effective as newer, more expensive antibiotics and causes
(E) that amoxicillin, long a standard treatment for ear infections, is about as effective  compared  to newer, more expensive antibiotics and  with

In 99% of the cases "show, require, found" etc require "that", we can eliminate 3 possible answers.
The idiom is  "as ADJ as"  and with this E is out of the competition. Moreover in E "with" is unclear.
D

pqhai · Answer

This is one of   report questions that require "that"    (found that, indicate that, demonstrate that....)    You cannot ignore "that"  .
Narrow down to D, E.
D is correct; 
........that amoxicillin, long a standard treatment for ear infections,  is  about  as  effective  as  newer,  more  expensive antibiotics  and causes 
Good comparison and parallelism.

Hope it helps.

aditya111 · Answer

Two issues are dealt with in this question :
1.
The researches dint  find   the drug... they found  that amoxicillin  .....

So clearly the answer choice is either D or E .
2. and now check for idiom -  as effective as

We have the answer choice as D clearly.

mdacosta · Answer

I agree w/ the 'found that' idiom, but is it ok to leave out THAT after the 'and'?

The study found that:
1) that Amox is as effective as the more expensive stuff
2) that it causes fewer side effects

Skywalker18 · Answer

A recent study has found  amoxicillin, long a standard treatment for ear infections, as being about as effective as newer, more expensive antibiotics and causing  fewer side effects.

A. amoxicillin, long a standard treatment for ear infections, as being about as effective as newer, more expensive antibiotics and causing -- that is needed after found, usage of being
B. amoxicillin, long a standard treatment for ear infections, to be about as effective compared to newer, more expensive antibiotics and with -- that is needed after found , as X as is correct idiom 
C. amoxicillin, long a standard treatment for ear infections, to be about as effective as newer, more expensive antibiotics and that it causes -- that is needed after found 
D. that amoxicillin, long a standard treatment for ear infections, is about as effective as newer , more expensive antibiotics and causes - Correct
E. that amoxicillin, long a standard treatment for ear infections, is about as effective compared to newer, more expensive antibiotics and with - as X as is correct idiom

Answer D

RashedVai · Answer

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AlN · Answer

GMATNinja  is  and that  an independent clause? If so shouldnt it be connected by FANBOYS

NandishSS · Answer

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Can we eliminate, because B & C lack verb?

Also in C to be is not parallel to that? Is my understanding correct?

GMATNinja · Answer

I'm not sure that I understand your question, but I'll give it a shot...

You can certainly have a parallel list of "that" clauses, i.e., "A study has found 1) that amoxicillin is effective and 2) that penicillin is ineffective."

Both 1) and 2) are noun clauses which cannot stand by themselves (" that  penicillin is ineffective" would not be a complete thought).

B & C both have a main verb: "A recent study  has found ..." However, as pointed out in  this post , we need a "that" after "has found". The study did not FIND amoxicillin (hiding under a rock?). Rather, the study found out something ABOUT amoxicillin. What did the study find out? "THAT amoxicillin is about as effective...{etc.}"

We also want "as effective as", not "as effective compared to", so there's another issue with (B).

Yes, you are right about the parallelism issue in (C)!

svasan05 · Answer

A recent study has found  amoxicillin, long a standard treatment for ear infections, as being about as effective as newer, more expensive antibiotics and causing  fewer side effects.

(A) amoxicillin, long a standard treatment for ear infections, as being about as effective as newer, more expensive antibiotics and causing  Reported speech ("...study has found...") requires "that" to report. Current structure seems to imply that amoxicillin itself has been found by the study. Eliminate.

(B) amoxicillin, long a standard treatment for ear infections, to be about as effective compared to newer, more expensive antibiotics and with  Same error as in (A). Also, "as effective" needs to be followed by "as" for correct comparison. Eliminate.

(C) amoxicillin, long a standard treatment for ear infections, to be about as effective as newer, more expensive antibiotics and that it causes  Same error as in (A). Eliminate.

(D) that amoxicillin, long a standard treatment for ear infections, is about as effective as newer, more expensive antibiotics and causes  Correct answer. Correct form is used for reported speech and correct structure "as effective as" is used to compare. No new errors are introduced.

(E) that amoxicillin, long a standard treatment for ear infections, is about as effective compared to newer, more expensive antibiotics and with  "as effective" needs to be followed by "as" for correct comparison. Eliminate.

Hope this helps.

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