The Official Guide for GMAT Verbal Review 2018
Practice Question
Question No.: SC 204
Page: 255
Child development specialists believe
that, in confining babies much of the time to strollers, high chairs, playpens, and walkers, muscle development can be inhibited.
(A) that, in confining babies much of the time to strollers, high chairs, playpens, and walkers, muscle development can be inhibited-
INCORRECT as ambiguous meaning is conveyed.
(B) that, in
their confinement much of the time to strollers, high chairs, playpens, and walkers, muscle development can be inhibited in babies-
INCORRECT as pronoun "their" does not correctly refer to babies.
(C) that confining babies much of the time to strollers, high chairs, playpens, and walkers can inhibit muscle development.-
CORRECT as the sentence is grammatically correct and logically conveys the meaning that confining the babies most of the time to chairs.....etc inhibits their muscle development.
(D) that babies, if confined much of the time to strollers, high chairs, playpens, and walkers can inhibit muscle development.-
INCORRECT as "babies" is the subject of this sentence and babies do not inhibit their muscle development.
(E) that strollers, high chairs, playpens, and walkers can, if babies are confined to the much of the time, result in muscle development being inhibited
as the sentence is awkward and does not convey the proper meaning.