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First sold May 1, 1924, iodized salt that made its way in regular di

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In My Opinion this Sentence is flawed from meaning preservative. As per the meaning its says that Iodized salt itself made the way to regular.......

It absolutely wrong from logical sentence. How a salt can itself make its way.... to a regular diet. It has to be taken in use by someone.....in regular diet.

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Hi Bunuel ,

Could you please help me out with why option E is wrong
I eliminated option E because of the following reason ->

(E) First sold May 1, 1924, iodized salt has made its way in regular diet to reduce the incidence of goiter, also playing

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1) The 'also playing' is without a verb in the 2nd part of the sentence
2) 'Also playing' is not parallel with 'to reduce the incidence of goiter'

Are my reasons for eliminating option E correct ?

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First sold May 1, 1924, iodized salt that made its way in regular diet to reduce the incidence of goiter has also been found to play a crucial role in brain development, especially during gestation.

B) Iodized salt, which was first sold May 1, 1924, making its way for reducing the incidence of goiter, has also been found to play

D) First sold May 1, 1924, making its way in regular diet to reduce the incidence of goiter, iodized salt has also been found to play

Hi @e-GMAT

I think the modifier placement of "making" is absolutely fine in options B and D as "making" is jumping to modify the Iodized Salt before "First sold May 1, 1924"

Can you please help here?

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rheam25 I think in both the options the ing-modifier 'making' is ambiguous , it can refer to the action of 'sold' in the first phrase and action of 'found' in the second clause.
So the sentence would have been correct if we placed a conjunction between the modifiers.
Also for option B, modifier and modified entity must be placed close to each other

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Hi

Let me try to address your query.

1) I am not sure why you feel there is no verb - "playing" itself is a verb that tells us what iodized salt did.
2) "Also playing" is problematic, but not for parallelism reasons. The problem is that it changes the intended meaning of the original sentence. The original sentence brings in an angle of discovery by using "found to play" which is completely omitted in "also playing...". Since there is no logical reason to change the meaning, and also looking at the other four options on this point, option (A) is better than option (E).

Please note, there is no problem with option (E) grammatically - the meaning issue is the problem. Hope this helps.

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If A is the right answer, isnt there supposed to be a comma b/w goiter and has? AkashM AndrewN

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If A is the right answer, isnt there supposed to be a comma b/w goiter and has? AkashM AndrewN

Hello, pranayraj98. The original sentence does not need a comma because the relative clause, the one that begins with that, contains essential information and needs to resolve before we can get to the verb. If that were which and the information were considered non-essential, then yes, we would expect to see commas both before and after the relative clause.

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First sold May 1, 1924, iodized salt that made its way in regular diet to reduce the incidence of goiter has also been found to play a crucial role in brain development, especially during gestation.

The sentence follows a subject-relative clause-verb-participle construct. We are only interested in the earlier part, though, relative to your question. Consider a similar, simpler sentence. We would not write, The car that drove down the street, was black. I will say, nevertheless, that the GMAT™ takes a somewhat relaxed stance on comma usage, so unless you are positive that there is an error, you should probably look to other points of consideration to assess the merits of each option.

I hope this information proves useful to you. Thank you for thinking to ask.

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