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Re: During the twentieth century, the study of the large-scale structure [#permalink] New post  14 Nov 2021, 21:45
GMATNinja, Bunuel, could you please clarify why both X and Y structure should be used in this sentence? My understanding is that Einstein's theory and the the ability to observe extremely objects are two distinct items in the list. Therefore, it may not be correct to use both X and Y structure in this case. Is it correct that both X and Y structure should be used when we are referring to similar items in the list?
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Re: During the twentieth century, the study of the large-scale structure [#permalink] New post  19 Nov 2021, 05:07
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GMATNinja, Bunuel, could you please clarify why both X and Y structure should be used in this sentence? My understanding is that Einstein's theory and the the ability to observe extremely objects are two distinct items in the list. Therefore, it may not be correct to use both X and Y structure in this case. Is it correct that both X and Y structure should be used when we are referring to similar items in the list?


Hello tkorzhan1995,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your question, X and Y actually are similar things here; "Einstein's theory of relativity" and "the better ability...astronomical objects" are both abstract nouns that can be said to have made the field of physical cosmology possible.

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Re: During the twentieth century, the study of the large-scale structure [#permalink] New post  25 Mar 2022, 13:23
C and D : and also = out, no parallel
E : seem very wordy compared to the last two options (A and B), so I wouldnt remove E immediately but there is a good chance it's wrong

Between A and B it's very close, as a non native speaker it was hard for me because it's mostly idiom at this point. I went with B as it is more concise and GMAT like concision. So A is out and E too.
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Re: During the twentieth century, the study of the large-scale structure [#permalink] New post  07 Aug 2022, 02:07
In this question i looked at option B and i was a little uncertain about the parallelism of the two elements because the idiom both X and Y is a closed parallel construction and both the elements are supposed to start with a similar constructio.. X starts with a possessive followed by a noun and Y starts with Noun modifier followed by a noun. can someone explain this a little.
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Re: During the twentieth century, the study of the large-scale structure [#permalink] New post  07 Aug 2022, 05:17
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In this question i looked at option B and i was a little uncertain about the parallelism of the two elements because the idiom both X and Y is a closed parallel construction and both the elements are supposed to start with a similar constructio.. X starts with a possessive followed by a noun and Y starts with Noun modifier followed by a noun. can someone explain this a little.


Hello Jayantalawadhi,

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To answer your query, "Einstein's theory of relativity" and "the better ability to observe extremely distant astronomical objects" are sufficiently parallel, as they are both noun phrases; two elements need not be identical in structure to be parallel.

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Re: During the twentieth century, the study of the large-scale structure [#permalink] New post  20 Dec 2022, 02:47
avigutman not cler why because of and as a result of are considered wrong idiomatically here? avigutman MartyTargetTestPrep
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Re: During the twentieth century, the study of the large-scale structure [#permalink] New post  04 Apr 2023, 11:15
shalabh3103 wrote:
can have because of in the answer choice since it should be followed by a reason/clause

whereas we have nouns as reasons
theory and ability
A, D and E are wrong due to this.

b/w B and C B is more idiomatically structured.


That cannot be the reason since because of is followed by noun phrases and because is followed by a clause. So in this case because of can refer to the noun phrases.
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Re: During the twentieth century, the study of the large-scale structure [#permalink] New post  09 Oct 2023, 12:24
How to solve this question without the idiomatic split?
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