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In many villages of the Carpathians, wealth is measured not in currency, houses or silverware, but rather by the quality and variety of home-woven blankets, carpets and richly embroidered clothes.

A. is measured not in currency, houses or silverware, but rather by the quality and variety

B. is being measured not by currency, houses or silverware, but rather by the quality and variety

C. is measured not in terms of currency, houses or silverware, but rather in the quality and variety

D. is measured not by currency, houses or silverware, but rather by the quality and variety

E. is measured by currency, houses or silverware, but in the quality and variety
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In many villages of the Carpathians, wealth is measured not in 02 Dec 2020, 08:18
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I said C.

|| is measured not in... but rather in...
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Abhi077 Can u please explain that why option D is wrong ?
As option D has parallelism is measured not by... but rather measured by...
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Can someone please provide an explanation for the correct choice? As per Manhattan GMAT prep book, we don't need to use same proposition for correct parallelism. For example, "It was important to leave the money in the drawer RATHER THAN on the table." is perfectly acceptable. Moreover, BY is more commonly used preposition with "measured'. Hence, even if we insist on using same preposition, I would have selected D (measured not by …. but rather by …).
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In many villages of the Carpathians, wealth is measured not in 14 Dec 2020, 02:24
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C:
Because of parallelism between the two clauses, 2nd clause talks about the quality of the items so first clause too should talk about some attribute of currency of houses etc rather than making a direct comparison!

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Abhi077 Can u please explain that why option D is wrong ?
As option D has parallelism is measured not by... but rather measured by...
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Hi

The problem in (D) is the use of "by", which is typically used to denote the

i) action of measurement. For example: Temperature is measured by determining the volume of a mercury column.

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ii) instrument of measurement . For example: The temperature of gas in the column is measured by a thermometer.

In this case, the sentence is trying to express a unit of measurement, for which the correct preposition would be "measured in". For example: Length is measured in metres.

Hope this clarifies.
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In many villages of the Carpathians, wealth is measured not in 09 Aug 2021, 03:30
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Abhi077 Can u please explain that why option D is wrong ?
As option D has parallelism is measured not by... but rather measured by...

Hi

The problem in (D) is the use of "by", which is typically used to denote the

i) action of measurement. For example: Temperature is measured by determining the volume of a mercury column.

or

ii) instrument of measurement . For example: The temperature of gas in the column is measured by a thermometer.

In this case, the sentence is trying to express a unit of measurement, for which the correct preposition would be "measured in". For example: Length is measured in metres.

Hope this clarifies.
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Hi svasan05 can you please tell what's wrong with option A? I agree with your explanation for the first part that it should be IN and not BY but for the second part, why can't we use BY quality? I think BY quality makes more sense than "can be measured IN quality". Please help me understand. Thanks!
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In many villages of the Carpathians, wealth is measured not in currency, houses or silverware, but rather by the quality and variety of home-woven blankets, carpets and richly embroidered clothes.
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A. is measured not in currency, houses or silverware, but rather by the quality and variety
Thiz gives the meaning as though quality and variety take charge for the inspection literally which is not the case therefore out

B. is being measured not by currency, houses or silverware, but rather by the quality and variety
Similar reasoning as A and in addition being is a huge red flag as always for creating the wrong answers which is still the case here therefore out

C. is measured not in terms of currency, houses or silverware, but rather in the quality and variety
THe meaning is spot on therefore let us hang on to it

D. is measured not by currency, houses or silverware, but rather by the quality and variety
Similar reasoning as A

E. is measured by currency, houses or silverware, but in the quality and variety
Here the inspection baton is changed to the currency which just doesn't make any sense therefore out

THerefore IMO C
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