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Although the rise in the Producer Price Index was greater than expecte 17 Jun 2023, 07:41
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My doubt is that we have assumed the analysts to agree on the two topics, but what if they are linked, (option C that the index was unlikely to go up, with inflation to remain...). How is option C incorrect and what would the correct answer look like in that case.
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Check out this post if you haven't already: https://gmatclub.com/forum/although-the ... l#p2619992.

The bottom line is that there are two subjects here: the (1) index and (2) inflation, so it's hard to "link" them in a way that still makes the meaning clear. Also, if they are linked, then doesn't that mean that the analysts agree on both of them? If so, (A) is the clearest way to express that idea.

And if the inflation part is totally separate and not something that the analysts agree about, then we'd want to separate that part entirely -- maybe something like, "Inflation remained under control, and most experts agreed that...".

I hope that helps!
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Although the rise in the Producer Price Index was greater than expecte 11 Jul 2023, 10:54
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can you kindly share why it should be "remained" and not "remain"

secondly, in option B we have "for the index continuing to go up and for inflation to remain"... is this not parallel as well?

Hello rnn!

Thank you for your questions. I imagine other people are wondering about these as well! Let's go through them one at a time:

1. The verb should be the past tense "remained" to stay consistent with the non-underlined part of the sentence where it says "was greater than expected" and "most analysts agreed," both of which are also in past tense.

2. No, this is not parallel. When looking at parallelism with phrases or clauses, you need to include the entire clause - not just the parts that sound good:

B. that it was unlikely for the index continuing to go up and for inflation to remain

If the phrase "it was unlikely" wasn't part of this option, then it would be parallel. However, since we're talking about parallel phrases here, we must include both phrases in their entirety. The only other way this could have been parallel would be to say "it was unlikely for the index to continue going up and it was unlikely for inflation to remain."

I hope this clears things up!
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Hi!

What is wrong in the sentence when we say this, "it was unlikely for the index to continue going up and it was unlikely for inflation to remain."
Is it the intended meaning issue?

VeritasKarishma could you please help
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what is the main verb of the sentence? I thought the part after the comma creates a fragment. Can someone please explain?
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what is the main verb of the sentence? I thought the part after the comma creates a fragment. Can someone please explain?
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Hi fmasood,

The main verb of the sentence is agreed.

1. Although the rise in the Producer Price Index was greater than expected, most analysts agreed that the index was unlikely to continue going up and that inflation remained essentially under control.
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I think that you can eliminate D and E purely because of meaning. Analysts agree that 1) it is unlikely that the index will rise ... Well, PPI is some type of an inflation-measured index; if they agree that the inflation index is unlikely to keep going up, they cannot possibly agree on the unlikelihood that inflation will remain under control but rather the opposite - they must agree on the likelihood that inflation WILL remain under control since the index will not keep rising.
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