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Having One of the highest melting points of all the chemical elements Updated on: 07 May 2018, 11:22
Originally posted by Archit143 on 24 Mar 2013, 07:27.
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Having One of the highest melting points of all the chemical elements, tungsten is used in temperature - dependent products such as light bulb filaments so adaptable that it is also used to make wedding bands.

A. filaments so adaptable
B. filaments being so adaptable
C. filaments, yet being so adaptable
D. filaments, and so adaptable
E. filaments yet is so adaptable
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Having One of the highest melting points of all the chemical elements 10 May 2015, 21:01
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A. LIGHT BULB FILAMENTS so adaptable that IT is also used to make wedding bands
B. LIGHT BULB FILAMENTS being so adaptable that IT is also used to make wedding bands
These answer choices seem to imply that LIGHT BULB FILAMENTS are so adaptable that IT (tungsten) is also used to make wedding bands -- a nonsensical meaning.
The intended meaning is that TUNGSTEN is so adaptable that it is also used to make wedding bands.
Eliminate A and B.

C: tungsten IS USED in temperature-dependent products such as light bulb filaments, yet BEING SO ADAPTABLE
D: tungsten IS USED in temperature-dependent products such as light bulb filaments, and SO ADAPTABLE
Conjunctions such as yet and and must connect PARALLEL FORMS.
In C, yet cannot serve to connect IS USED (verb) with BEING SO ADAPTABLE (adjective phrase).
In D, and cannot serve to connect IS USED (verb) with SO ADAPTABLE (adjective phrase).
Eliminate C and D.

The correct answer is E.
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I feel we need to have a contrast marker here; because Tungsten is being used for two diametrically opposite purposes--- one as a thin filament in bulbs and two as a thick band in wedding ornaments. This contrast has to be explicitly brought out by using an appropriate marker such as yet or but or the like.
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Having One of the highest melting points of all the chemical elements, tungsten is used in temperature - dependent products such as light bulb filaments so adaptable that it is also used to make wedding bands.

A. filaments so adaptable ( that is used... )
The subject of the last part becomes the filaments, and not the substance.
B. filaments being so adaptable
"Being" is simply wrong
C. filaments, yet being so adaptable
The comma is wrong, and once more "being" makes the sentence unclear
D. filaments, and so adaptable
"and" does not create the right structure in the passage. We are looking for a contraposition
E. filaments yet is so adaptable
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Such as...........So........... is the correct idiom.

using yet is completely wrong as we are not contrasting two situations.

so D is correct.
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Such as...........So........... is the correct idiom.

using yet is completely wrong as we are not contrasting two situations.

so D is correct.
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I'm not sure whether there exists an idiom as such as X so Y.

such as (in general and also today) is used to indicate examples.
Here the filament is example of products in which tungsten is used for its melting point.

sentence with option D looks as follows

Having One of the highest melting points of all the chemical elements,
    tungsten is used in temperature - dependent products
    such as light bulb filaments, and
    so adaptable     that it is also used to make wedding bands.

and so adaptable does mot indicate the contrast required here.

I hope this helps! :)
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Can someone please explain how "e" is the correct answer. is the use of "is" is correct in "e" option. As their is one clause and that is " tungustan is...." . So how the use of another verb is is correct here. Thanks in advance
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Can someone please explain how "e" is the correct answer. is the use of "is" is correct in "e" option. As their is one clause and that is " tungustan is...." . So how the use of another verb is is correct here. Thanks in advance
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Hi jrk23,

There is a conjunction (yet) that connects those two parts of the sentence.

X is used... yet is...
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daagh Is it okay to omit comma before yet in this case?
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Having One of the highest melting points of all the chemical elements 05 Oct 2019, 03:03
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Do we need a comma at all before 'yet'? After all, there is no IC after 'yet'. You require a comma before the fanboys only when you join full - fledged two ICs, each with its own subject and verb. What is after 'yet' is only a predicate and per se this is a simple sentence with one subject 'tungsten' and two predicates joined by a fanboys. When there are only two items in a list, there is no need for a comma before the fanboys.
Hope I am clear.
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Dear AnthonyRitz IanStewart GMATGuruNY DmitryFarber VeritasPrepBrian ccooley MartyTargetTestPrep,

I'm not clear why is choice D. wrong?
Because of comma? Because of "and"? How do I know I have to use "and" or "yet"? (Both seem logical to me)

Having One of the highest melting points of all the chemical elements, tungsten is used in temperature - dependent products such as light bulb filaments, and [IS] so adaptable that it is also used to make wedding bands.

Here, I think IS is understood.

Why can't Is be understood or omitted?
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I'm not clear why is choice D. wrong?
Because of comma? Because of "and"? How do I know I have to use "and" or "yet"? (Both seem logical to me)

Having One of the highest melting points of all the chemical elements, tungsten is used in temperature - dependent products such as light bulb filaments, and [IS] so adaptable that it is also used to make wedding bands.

Here, I think IS is understood.

Why can't Is be understood or omitted?
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"And" is fine here, if the sentence is listing all the great uses of tungsten. "Yet" is fine here if the sentence is contrasting two surprisingly different uses for tungsten. I don't understand what rationale other replies above are using to prefer one over the other.

D is clearly wrong because it contains no verb. You need a complete clause after the conjunction here; "is" is not "understood". Without the verb, the end of the sentence says "tungsten so adaptable that it is also used to make wedding bands". That is not a sentence, and it needs to be. If you look at a simpler example:

Gold is used to make jewellery, and shiny.

that is not an English sentence. It needs to say

Gold is used to make jewellery, and is shiny.
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please correct my understanding below:

A. filaments so adaptable

if we ignore the contrast for a while, is there any grammar errror in this

D. filaments, yet so adaptable

I just added a 'YET' above. does this make the choice correct? do we have a independent clause starting with 'yet'

E. filaments yet is so adaptable

is 'yet' used a parallel marker her.

tungsten is used in temperature dependent products
yet
tungsten is so adaptable.

this is how should we think?
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