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IMAO +1 B

I have seen this same passage as an RC

Hi Jryan,

Answer choice may look figuratively correct, but grammatical construction vise it is not the best one among all the answer choices. (A) does not maintain proper parallelism. Moreover, the use of both "would become" and "was born" seem to jumble up the tenses and make the sentence awkward.

You should give more preference to a grammatically correct answer choice than to a figuratively correct one. Usually figurative correctness is not tested on the GMAT and one will have good reasons to eliminate the incorrect answer choices because figurative usages could be debated but a grammatically correct answer choice will be correct for sure.

Hope this helps,

Vercules

By delving into figurative and literal speech, we are diverging; ‘Be born’, per se is not objectionable. But clubbing it with other active voices in a series is a mistake.
Secondly once we accept something as figurative, we shouldn’t go beyond its appropriateness. Only because, some things are literally inappropriate, we use the figurative license. But this factor is a concern of English prose and composition and not sentence correction.
For ex: The case study method of Management study was given birth to by the Harvard School of business. In this case, are we going to ask, how can a school give birth to something?
Look at another example: The Boss barked at me; Can we ask how a boss, a human being can bark?
We should be content with B

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