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In the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. the United States acquired 828.000 21 Aug 2023, 20:41
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Option E is actually quite interesting and has good learning. It says:

....the United States bought it for about four cents an acre, more than doubling the country's size and bringing its western border within reach of the Pacific Ocean.

It is important to note that the fact that United States bought Louisiana for about four cents an acre had no bearing (was not the reason) on doubling the country's size and bringing its western border within reach of the Pacific Ocean.

GMAT does test this concept in some cases. A very interesting example that comes to mind:

Emily Dickinson’s letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson were written over a period beginning a few years before Susan’s marriage to Emily’s brother and ending shortly before Emily’s death in 1886, outnumbering her letters to anyone else.

The reason this sentence is incorrect is because the fact that those letters where written "over a specific period", was not the "reason" why these letters outnumber her letters to anyone else.
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In the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. the United States acquired 828.000 09 Oct 2023, 11:47
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Why is option D incorrect? Can it not mean that the size doubled as the western border was brought within the reach of the Pacific Ocean?

I thought there is no particular rule to not have two modifiers back to back. Can someone please point out the grammatical error in D?
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In the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. the United States acquired 828.000 16 Nov 2025, 15:48
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