However much Americans may complain that jury duty disrupts their live

Orginial sentence talks about uncertainy vs B,C,E talks about certainity

A and D remains.

A sounds better. and parallel in structure.

D. Even though Americans [color=#BF0080]may complain [/color]

The "May" in D expresses uncertainity

Hi Dont u think that we any ways need "that" after the underlined portion. (i mean i agree with what u say bout certainity and uncertainty)
so its just another reason for D to be eliminated, coz it does not contain "that" after the underlined portion.

Dhawan, I agree with you. Absence of "that" is a valid reason to eliminate D. The answer choice definetly does not represent uncertainity.

Even though Americans may complain that jury duty disrupts their lives and that the jury selection process can be long and tedious, most agree that there is no alternative to this procedure that would ensure the right of those charged with crimes to a jury of their
After carefully analysis of the structure of teh sentence I realised " that is used as a modifier and it lends a parrael structure -
that jury duty disrupts their lives and that the jury selection process can be long and tedious.
If you pose a question - "what do the AMericans complain about?" - that binds "jury duty disrupts their lives" and "the jury selection process can be long and tedious" to the sentence.

Orginial sentence talks about uncertainy vs B,C,E talks about certainity

A and D remains.

A sounds better. and parallel in structure.[/quote]

Hi Dont u think that we any ways need "that" after the underlined portion. (i mean i agree with what u say bout certainity and uncertainty)
so its just another reason for D to be eliminated, coz it does not contain "that" after the underlined portion.[/quote]

Dhawan, I agree with you. Absence of "that" is a valid reason to eliminate D. The answer choice definetly does not represent uncertainity.

Even though Americans may complain that jury duty disrupts their lives and that the jury selection process can be long and tedious, most agree that there is no alternative to this procedure that would ensure the right of those charged with crimes to a jury of their
After carefully analysis of the structure of teh sentence I realised " that is used as a modifier and it lends a parrael structure -
that jury duty disrupts their lives and that the jury selection process can be long and tedious.
If you pose a question - "what do the AMericans complain about?" - that binds "jury duty disrupts their lives" and "the jury selection process can be long and tedious" to the sentence.[/quote]


I did not understand why that is required here, can you please explain?

This is a very old topic, but I think this may help others that run into these 'However much THAT X and THAT Y' problems. The primary decision point is in the parallel structure of the 'and' conjunction. Answer A and D both use the correct parallel structure, but A is the only choice that uses a contrasting conjunction (however).

I think the ans is C if it had that at the end of the choice..

I am not sure I understand what you mean. answer C does not have 'that'.

C would be correct if the choice was "although Americans complain that" rather than "although Americans complain". It is a hypothetical, and irrelevant to the correct answer.

He is technically right, but in the context of the official question, C is not correct.

bb, could you pls ask any moderator to tag OA to this question?

much Americans???
much is used to modify uncountable nouns only.

________________
Done. Thank you.

However much Americans may complain that jury duty disrupts their lives and that the jury selection process can be long and tedious, most agree that there is no alternative to this procedure that would ensure the right of those charged with crimes to a jury of their peers.


This is a tricky question, but with correct approach easy to solve
when you look at the question you may notice"and that" in the non underlined portion. "and " is a parallelism indicator. both sides of and should be parallel.
A. However much Americans may complain that -parallel

B. Despite the complaints among Americans about the fact-"that" is missing, so it is not parallel

C. Although Americans complain-"that" is missing, so it is not parallel

D. Even though Americans may complain--"that" is missing, so it is not parallel

E. There are complaints among Americans that- parallel
Next step is evaluating options A and E
Option E- GMAT laid perfect trap, when we read option E, we think E looks better than A. but, if we notice closely, except E all are dependent clause and non underlined portion contain independent clause and doesn't have independent clause connectors such as like, but, yet, etc. So, option E is run on sentence i.e., two independent clause connected without a connector. this is a major error in GMAT.
So, A is the correct answer. much americans is correct by the way.

how can much refer to americans? americans can be counted. GMATNinja, GMATNinjaTwo, MikeScarn, aragonn, generis, hazelnut

Hi Manat

You may be misinterpreting the sentence. "much" is being used to describe the degree to which Americans are complaining. "much" is not being used to quantify "Americans."

Does this make sense?

The second ‘that’ in the non-underlined portion of the sentence points to a parallel structure.

We can see that Americans are complaining about two things
a) Jury duty disrupts their lives
b) Selection process is tedious

Because of this, we need to look for an option that has the word ‘that’ at the end.

We can eliminate Options B, C and D.

Between Option E and Option A, Option E changes the meaning of the sentence.
Substitute back into the sentence and you’ll see that it gives you a fused sentence. Eliminate.

Option A is the best choice.

Hope this helps!

Can you please tell me how's option A correct , much can only be with uncountable nouns egmat