George Washington dedicated his life to the economic

Question

38. George Washington dedicated his life to  the economic strengthening of the south with improvement of soil and diversification of corps.

A. the economic strengthening of the south with improvement of soil and diversification of corps.
B. strengthening the economy in the south with soil improvement and diversification of corps.
C. the strengthening the economy of the south through soil improvement and crop diversification.
D. the strengthening of the economy of the south through improving soil and crop diversifying
E. the economic strengthening in the south with improving soil and diversifying corp.

Leopard · Answer

Eliminate D and E - diversifying is wrong. 
C - Wrong - dedicated his life to the strengthening the . Two 'the' makes the sentence clumsy.
I am now confused between A and B.
A - improvement of soil, diversification of crops looks parallel. But, the economic strengthening looks clumsy.

I will go with B.

nevergiveup · Answer

economic modify strengthening does not logically make sense. It should be strengthening modify economy; therefore, eliminate A and E.
B is wrong you need 'the' here because after to it should be the verb original form.
C and D are hard to tell. In C, soil improvement and crop diversification seems parallel, but it is missing the of.
In D, improving soil and crop diversifying does not seem parallel, but it does have the of.

I guess I will go with C.

rohit929 · Answer

agree with eileen 
soil improvement and crop diversification is correct in C

billyjeans · Answer

I think it is B.

Dedicated his life to strengthening the economy of the south.

farend · Answer

Will go with D. A gerund is required. through sounds better than with

neeraj.kaushal · Answer

Answer should be B 
as dedicated his life to must be followed by a nouns phrase and strengthning the economy in south is that phrase .

sondenso · Answer

I must many time admit that Gmatprep is too tricky! GMAC expertise in decieving us if we have "the sound best" reasoning!

I think GMAT writers go out to every corner of the world, understanding every culture of that "corners", hearing every mistaken words the native can make. They insert all into the Gmat test. You will fall in the trap! Ofcourse, me too!

A few choose the corect choice!

billyjeans · Answer

What is OA? plz? :lol:

sondenso · Answer

OA is C <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":-D" title="Very Happy" />

farend · Answer

Isn't an "of" missing in option C or is it alright?

mymba99 · Answer

Testing Altered intent and Parallelism
A & E : 'economic strengthening' & 'strengthening the economy' have different meanings.
 'economic strengthening' means inexpensive strengthening which is not the intended meaning here.
B - 'soil improvement' not parallel to 'diversification of crops'. 
( It should have been 'soil improvement' and 'crop diversification')
D - 'improving soil' not parallel to 'crop diversifying'
( It should have been ' improving soil and diversifying crops')
C - Wins.

bsd_lover · Answer

Its a straight C for the usage of "through". The usage of with is confusing in A cos with implies that George washington is doing both of these things whereas I think the intent of the author is to show the relationship between both the things GW is doing.

mbawaters · Answer

A D and E are out for obvious reasons...

Now between B and C, B needs 'the' besided I did not like the use of 'in' over 'of'.

Yeah C. Good question though. Wonder what is the source?

zhenmaster · Answer

There's a typo in C in this thread. The original question doesn't have "the" in the beginning of C.

wizardofwashington · Answer

Thanks for pointing that out. It makes a huge difference now to know that the word "the" at the beginning of the sentence shouldn't be there. It was a key factor in swaying the reader to pick the other best/closest choice B.

If not for that "the" I would have picked C. Those who managed to do it already, Kudos to you for picking the right choice inspite of the minor error.

getafixdruid · Answer

I chose B. If only C did not have the typo in the beginning.. :shock:

sondenso · Answer

GmapPrep! <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_lol.gif" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing" />

billyjeans · Answer

hehe that's what i thought so too, i was thinking C is clearly wrong

George Washington dedicated his life to the economic

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