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Yet is generally used to show contrast. I read other usages of "Yet" described in Cambridge dictionary.
For example - Yet (means still; until the present time): He hasn't finished yet.
Why we can't consider yet as an adverb in D?

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If "yet" has the adverb meaning of "till now", it needs to be close to the verb e.g.

...the proportion of judges and partners at major law firms who are women has not yet risen comparably.

... yet the proportion of judges and partners at major law firms who are women has not risen comparably - shows the contrast usage of yet. This has happened, yet that has not happened.
To show the adverb usage, you will say: This has happened, but that has not happened yet.

We have an option that is clean and clear and free of all these issues and that is option (C). So that is our answer.
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‘Who’ refers to the partners and not to the firms. ‘At major law firms’ is an essential part of the partners. After all, the pronoun’ who’ cannot refer to the non-human term ‘firms’
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can you please explain why in this example placement of WHO away from the object it relates to, is a mistake. it seems very similar:
"Stella Adler was one of the most influential artists in the American theater, who trained several generations of actors" is wrong, according to GMAT.
What's the difference?
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Hi experts,

I have a question regarding answer choice B.

I recognized that "have" is not matching the singular "the proportion". However, I presumed that we are talking about; 1) the proportion of woman judges; 2) the proportion of woman partners.

If that interpretation is correct, we are talking about two proportions, thus "have" should be correct.

I know I am wrong, but I don't understand where. Can you help? :)
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Hi experts,

I have a question regarding answer choice B.

I recognized that "have" is not matching the singular "the proportion". However, I presumed that we are talking about; 1) the proportion of woman judges; 2) the proportion of woman partners.

If that interpretation is correct, we are talking about two proportions, thus "have" should be correct.

I know I am wrong, but I don't understand where. Can you help? :)
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hello FrontEndurance,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, the construction of the phrase "proportion of women judges and partners" is such that the phrase refers to the combined proportion of "women judges" and "women partners".

We hope this helps.
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Hi experts,

I have a question regarding answer choice B.

I recognized that "have" is not matching the singular "the proportion". However, I presumed that we are talking about; 1) the proportion of woman judges; 2) the proportion of woman partners.

If that interpretation is correct, we are talking about two proportions, thus "have" should be correct.

I know I am wrong, but I don't understand where. Can you help? :)
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If we wanted to refer to TWO proportions and thus have a plural subject, we would have to repeat the word "proportion" (as you did in your post). Consider this simple example:

    "Tim dropped the basket of apples and pears."

As written, there's no reason for the reader to assume that Tim dropped TWO different baskets. "Basket" is a singular noun, and it's modified by a prepositional phrase ("of apples and pears"). If we wanted to make it clear that Tim dropped two different baskets, we'd want to change it to "Tim dropped the basket of apples and the basket of pears."

The same thing is true in choice (B). When we see "the proportion," we have no reason to think that it's plural. We have a parallel list within the prepositional phrase ("of women judges and partners"), but that plural list of objects doesn't make the subject ("the proportion") plural.

If the intention is to refer to two distinct proportions, then (B) is an awfully confusing way of communicating that. (C) is a much clearer and better option.

I hope that helps!
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a) and b) subject-verb agreement error. Subject- The proportion(singular) verb- Have(plural)
d) and e) are out because of word yet. Remember FANBOYS(for,and ,nor, but , or, yet, so).These are also known as coordinating conjunctions. These are used to connect two independent clauses.The word despite begins a dependent clause already so use of FANBOY is wrong
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(A) the proportion of judges and partners at major law firms who are women have not risen to a comparable extent
This one is a gift from the GMAT gods: “… the proportion of (blah blah)… HAVE not risen…”

Nope, that’s a classic subject-verb error. We can get rid of (A). Thank you for giving us something easy for once, GMAT!

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(B) the proportion of women judges and partners at major law firms have not risen comparably
(B) has exactly the same subject-verb error as (A): “… the proportion… HAVE not risen…” So (B) is gone, too.

Isn’t this exciting?

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(C) the proportion of judges and partners at major law firms who are women has not risen comparably
Well, this works just fine: “the proportion… has not risen comparably.” Let’s keep (C).

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(D) yet the proportion of women judges and partners at major law firms has not risen to a comparable extent
Well, there are two things that are different in (D) than in (C). One is that the word “comparably” is used in (C), but “to a comparable extent” appears in its place in (D). Honestly, I don’t know if this is a big deal. “Comparably” seems more succinct to me, but I’m not sure that “to a comparable extent” is necessarily WRONG. I certainly wouldn’t eliminate (D) based on that alone, even though I mildly prefer the shorter version in (C).

The other weird issue is the use of “yet” at the beginning of the underlined portion. So that gives us “Despite the increasing number of women…, yet the proportion of women judges…” That’s wrong: both “yet” and “despite” begin dependent clauses, so now the sentence just consists of two dependent clauses in a row. That’s not OK.

So (D) is out.

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(E) yet the proportion of judges and partners at major law firms who are women has not risen comparably
And (E) has exactly the same problem as (D): two consecutive dependent clauses does NOT give us a legitimate sentence.

So we can eliminate (E), and (C) is our answer.
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I think, if the option B started with has instead of have then B would be the best option. Right?
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Hi Experts,
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If B had 'an overwhleming propotion' instead of the 'the proportion' then we could have taken 'have' plural verb ? right ?

pls help
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