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Although the baseball team practiced more diligently that year than [#permalink] New post   31 Mar 2022, 23:56
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Although the baseball team practiced more diligently that year than their prior years, in the end it still lost the championship to the opposing team.


A) their prior years

B) they had in prior years

C) in prior years

D) they had for any prior years

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Although the baseball team practiced more diligently that year than [#permalink] New post   01 Apr 2022, 00:25
Basketball team is a collective noun and a collective noun almost always takes a singular pronoun. So, even purely on that basis you can eliminate choices A, B, D and E. C remains.

(C) is also correct because it uses correct comparison. Sentence without ellipsis would be:
Although the baseball team practiced more diligently that year than the baseball team practiced in their prior years, in the end it still lost the championship to the opposing team.
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Re: Although the baseball team practiced more diligently that year than [#permalink] New post   01 Apr 2022, 00:34
My answer is (C). It took me 31 seconds.

(A) "The baseball team" is singular. The use of "it still lost" further confirms it.
"Their" does not have an appropriate precedent.

(BDE) can be eliminated for the same reason.

Usually a GMAT question contains more than one decision point. Did I miss anything?
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Although the baseball team practiced more diligently that year than [#permalink] New post   06 May 2022, 02:17
How come answer is C. Than follows parallelism there is no IN in earlier art of sentence then how come answer is C? I know they should not be there since baseball is team is singular but i believe that statements are wrong
Can someone please explain me this
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Re: Although the baseball team practiced more diligently that year than [#permalink] New post   06 May 2022, 06:08
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How come answer is C. Than follows parallelism there is no IN in earlier art of sentence then how come answer is C? I know they should not be there since baseball is team is singular but i believe that statements are wrong
Can someone please explain me this


Hello Tanvay,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, Option C "that" parallels "in"; here, "that" serves as a preposition rather than a pronoun, so it can parallel the preposition "in".

We hope this helps.
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