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An array of tax incentives has led to a boom in the construction of new office buildings; so abundant has capital been for commercial real estate that investors regularly scour the country for areas in which to build.


(A) so abundant has capital been for commercial real estate that

(B) capital has been so abundant for commercial real estate, so that

(C) the abundance of capital for commercial real estate has been such,

(D) such has the abundance of capital been for commercial real estate that

(E) such has been an abundance of capital for commercial real estate,
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Dear All GMAT Experts,

I have a different doubt regarding the answer choices. As D seems one of the closest correct answer choice, but I didn't select it due to the fact that "has been" has to come together to convey the meaning of the sentence, that is "the abundance of capital is from some time in the past and is continuing today...?? Just to say a perfect tense. Please clarify if this is correct or we have exceptions as it is here..??

Same is the issue with A.

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An array of tax incentives has led to a boom in the construction of new office buildings; so abundant has capital been for commercial real estate that investors regularly scour the country for areas in which to build.


(A) so abundant has capital been for commercial real estate that

(B) capital has been so abundant for commercial real estate, so that

(C) the abundance of capital for commercial real estate has been such,

(D) such has the abundance of capital been for commercial real estate that

(E) such has been an abundance of capital for commercial real estate,

Dear All GMAT Experts,

I have a different doubt regarding the answer choices. As D seems one of the closest correct answer choice, but I didn't select it due to the fact that "has been" has to come together to convey the meaning of the sentence, that is "the abundance of capital is from some time in the past and is continuing today...?? Just to say a perfect tense. Please clarify if this is correct or we have exceptions as it is here..??

Same is the issue with A.

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Hello sourodeep,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, yes; the meaning here is that the capital was abundant in the past and continues to be abundant in the present, so the use of the present perfect tense verb "has...been" is correct.

We hope this helps.
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Even after going through all the solutions stated above.I am still not able to understand why option D is incorrect. And in option A its written "has capital been". In case of using has been. Can we have something in between of has and been. As in the case of option A.

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This is one of those questions that tests a construction we basically never use in everyday speech, so don't think of this as typical. But yes, in this context we can have quite a bit in between HAS and BEEN, and in more ordinary constructions we often see a modifier in between those words: "has certainly been," "has recently been," etc.

The problem with D is that we really need "so . . . that" to indicate that capital has been SO abundant THAT investors keep looking for new places to build. Notice that SO is dealing with a modifier: abundant. SUCH deals with nouns. I can use it to say the same kind of thing as SO THAT, but the structure has to look different. For instance, I could say "It's so hot today that school was cancelled" or "It's such a hot day that school was cancelled." SO intensifies HOT, while SUCH intensifies HOT DAY.

In that context, D is like saying "Such has the heat of the day been." That's not a thing we say. SUCH only applies to the noun part, not the whole clause, so this isn't saying anything clear.
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Why not c. it seems simpler and more clear answer
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For C to work, we'd need "such THAT." I can't say "the heat has been such, I stay inside all day." Even with SUCH THAT, this construction doesn't make a lot of sense, as you can see if you add THAT to my heat example. When we use "such that," we are usually talking about what KIND of thing led to our result, not just HOW MUCH of something we've had. So I'd say "capital has been SO abundant that investors . . . ." I'd use "such that" if I were saying something like this: "The NATURE of the investments has been SUCH THAT only specialists can accurately assess the risks involved."
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