test9032 wrote:
Hi Experts,
AndrewN GMATNinja GMATNinja2
MartyTargetTestPrep AjiteshArun RonTargetTestPrep KarishmaBI have 2 doubts.
i) I'm unable to understand how there's a meaning error across Options (B) and (C).
ii) Some users and experts said that in Option (C), "they were built for" and "for which...." are not parallel.
To my understanding, as long as 2 entities are of the same type nouns/verbs/.... they are parallel.
Here "they were built for" and "for which" are both clauses so are they not parallel? Obviously we prefer Option (A) since it has better parallelism but is Option (C) straight up incorrect?
Thanks!
I don't see much of a meaning difference in these options:
'increasingly engage' or 'increasingly are engaged (passive)' or 'engage increasingly' or 'Increasingly, they engage in ...'
All seem to mean 'more and more frequently.' None of these makes me think of a higher degree of engagement. For this, I might want to re-word it as 'their engagement is increasing...'
Though we routinely end our clauses with a preposition in spoken English, formal business English still prefers to not do so.
Hence, in a comparison between:
'missions that differ significantly from the tasks they were built for' vs
'missions far different from the tasks for which they were built'
I would prefer the second one in writing.
GMAT seems to agree with it and that is why, the non-underlined part is written as 'for which their crews were trained' and not 'their crews were trained for'
Otherwise, it could have read as: 'missions that differ significantly from the tasks they were built for and their crews were trained for'
Since we like to maintain as much parallelism as possible, (A) looks much better than (C).