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In an effort to increase profits, the company moved itself from emphas [#permalink] New post  Updated on: 03 Jan 2018, 23:18
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In an effort to increase profits, the company moved itself from emphasizing its chemicals business to expand into high-growth pharmaceuticals and futuristic biotechnologies.

(A) itself from emphasizing its chemicals business to expand
(B) itself from emphasizing its chemicals business then to expanding
(C) from an emphasis on its chemicals business and to expanding
(D) from an emphasis on its chemicals business and to expand
(E) from emphasizing its chemicals business to expanding

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Parallel structure and logical meaning should take you where you want to go here. It needs to be emphasizing/expanding or emphasis/expand, but no mixing and matching. That eliminates A and C.

The idiom moves from/to eliminates B, C (again) and D. You can't have from/and to, as this logically doesn't make sense.

Moving itself doesn't work, unless the company is trying to dance. That eliminates A (again) and B (again).

Answer must be E by process of elimination, especially since the other choices have been doubly eliminated. And indeed E has the correct parallel structure and maintains the correct meaning, so that must be the answer.

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Originally posted by VeritasPrepRon on 22 Apr 2013, 05:57.
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Re: In an effort to increase profits, the company moved itself from emphas [#permalink] New post  22 Apr 2013, 13:59
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In an effort to increase profits, the company moved itself from emphasizing its chemicals business to expand into high-growth
pharmaceuticals and futuristic biotechnologies.

(A) itself from emphasizing its chemicals business to expand
(B) itself from emphasizing its chemicals business then to expanding
(C) from an emphasis on its chemicals business and to expanding
(D) from an emphasis on its chemicals business and to expand
(E) from emphasizing its chemicals business to expanding


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Answer must be E
It`s a idiom problem.Here the idiom is From x To y.Here only option E correctly uses the idiom from x to y........from emphasizing its chemicals business to expanding
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Re: In an effort to increase profits, the company moved itself from emphas [#permalink] New post  23 Apr 2013, 13:39
here without any idioms the meaning is clearly E. Straight and perfect
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Re: In an effort to increase profits, the company moved itself from emphas [#permalink] New post  04 Jul 2018, 03:56
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from x to y for parallelism. A is not parallel - emphasizing to expand. B has an extra 'then' - incorrect. C and D have got 'from x and y'.

E is the most parallel - emphasizing.. Expanding
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Re: In an effort to increase profits, the company moved itself from emphas [#permalink] New post  20 Aug 2020, 12:32
Is "emphasizing" and "expanding" gerunds in this sentence?
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Re: In an effort to increase profits, the company moved itself from emphas [#permalink] New post  20 Aug 2020, 13:33
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lakshya14 wrote:
Is "emphasizing" and "expanding" gerunds in this sentence?

Yes, lakshya14, these two -ing words in choice (E), reproduced below, are acting in the capacity of nouns, each answering the what as the object of a preposition, and can therefore be called gerunds. These nouns fit the expression from A to B. I have taken the liberty of boldfacing the gerund phrases.

In an effort to increase profits, the company moved from emphasizing its chemicals business to expanding into high-growth pharmaceuticals and futuristic biotechnologies.

Well done in spotting the gerunds. Thank you for pointing them out to others.

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Re: In an effort to increase profits, the company moved itself from emphas [#permalink] New post  22 Aug 2020, 06:42
in choice b, "itself " is not idiomatic
"then" is wrong.
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Re: In an effort to increase profits, the company moved itself from emphas [#permalink] New post  25 Feb 2021, 22:49
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In an effort to increase profits, the company moved itself from emphasizing its chemicals business to expand into high-growth pharmaceuticals and futuristic biotechnologies.

(A) itself from emphasizing its chemicals business to expand "emphasizing" is not parallel to "expand". Also, the company itself (seems to imply physically) did not move. Eliminate.

(B) itself from emphasizing its chemicals business then to expanding Unnecessary use of "then" - we already know that a prior state of being is being described by the use of "moved from". Also, the company itself (seems to imply physically) did not move. Eliminate.

(C) from an emphasis on its chemicals business and to expanding "emphasis" is not parallel to "expanding". Unnecessary conjunction "and" - we already have a "from...to" structure. Eliminate.

(D) from an emphasis on its chemicals business and to expand Unnecessary conjunction "and" - we already have a "from...to" structure. Eliminate.

(E) from emphasizing its chemicals business to expanding Correct answer - above errors are rectified and no new errors are introduced.

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