Lenders and building managers in the southwestern section of

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Lenders and building managers in the southwestern section of the city report that because of the rental market in the area being renewed, as well as the willingness of the banks to lend money being increased, apartment buildings are being rehabilitated at a pace unseen for a decade.

A. of the rental market in the area being renewed, as well as the willingness of the banks to lend money being increased

A. of the rental market in the area being renewed, as well as the willingness of the banks to lend money being increased

B. of the renewed rental market in the area, as well as the willingness of banks to lend money increasing

C. of the renewed rental market in the area and the increased willingness of banks to lend money

D. the rental market in the area renewed and the willingness of banks to lend money increased, therefore

E. the rental market in the area was being renewed and banks were increasingly willing to lend money, so

geturdream · Answer

i am also with C. The answer has already been explained

samatace · Answer

Guys common this is not 700 level question. Please, stop clogging this section.

psychomath · Answer

i GO WITH C-clear and concise....btw Samatace are u from GMAC or from any other team that u can say with so much confidence that this is not a 700 level Q ? :-)

Womiwom · Answer

I got C at 49 seconds. Was that one really a 700 level question?

FQ · Answer

Must be C
"renewed rental market" corresponds well with "increased willingness of banks"

monirjewel · Answer

"Because of" is used for possessive noun but it is not the case here. what is the reason to use it here?

cssk · Answer

C is the answer. "Because of" should be followed by a noun phrase.

Here "the renewed rental market in the area" and "the increased willingness of banks
to lend money" are the two noun phrases and are perfectly joined by conjunction "and".

Hope I made sense.

abrakadabra21 · Answer

D. the rental market in the area renewed and the willingness of banks to lend
money increased, therefore
No need to use therefore. Because is there. 
after because of something happened. you need "verb" there.

Chemerical71 · Answer

sasidharrs · Answer

I was thinking correct answer is c...good chance I could be wrong

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Krishchamp · Answer

Can someone plaese explain me the reasoning of the correct answers and wrong answers? I also want to know the usage of 'due to' and 'because of' on GMAT.

AndrewN · Answer

Hello,  Krishchamp . I would be happy to help you with this one. Speaking to the latter query, you will find everything you want to know about  due to  versus  because of  in  this post  by e-GMAT. In short, it can be useful to think of  due to  as saying  caused by , but if you are more grammar-focused, you can look for  due to  to modify a noun and  because of  to modify a verb. Looking at this sentence, we can pare down the choices to the correct one without too much trouble.

Although it is not a consideration here, notice that  due to  would  not  work in place of  because of :  due to the rental market  sounds fine, but, using our replacement trick, you can see that it makes no sense in the context--  caused by  the rental market in the area being renewed . The sentence is conveying that  because of  an action (some verb)...apartment buildings are being rehabbed. Although the three instances of  being  present an apparent parallel construct, they are unnecessary to express the vital meaning of the sentence, particularly the second part about  the willingness of banks to lend money . If the willingness of banks to lend is increasing, then we would expect a form of  increase  to appear closer to the noun it modifies.

Although I like the placement of the adjective  renewed  ahead of the noun it modifies, I dislike the after-the-fact placement of  increasing , which ruptures any attempt at parallelism and makes the sentence harder to follow.

Both issues are now fixed. The parallelism is maintained, and we even get a more concise version of  as well as  in the conjunction  and . There is nothing to argue against in this one.

There are a couple issues with this option. Without  of , we need a verb to make the phrase about the renewed rental market make sense. As presented,  the rental market... renewed  personifies the market itself. Renewed what? We can say that the market  is  renewed to flip the switch on the verb  renewed  and turn it back into an adjective, but the usage of  the rental market... renewed  is incorrect. At the tail-end of the sentence, we also get an unnecessary transition in  therefore . A  because  construct already provides the premise for a conclusion or statement that is going to follow, so adding  therefore  is superfluous. Compare the following:

1) Because I was hungry, I grabbed a bite to eat.

2) Because I was hungry,  therefore  I grabbed a bite to eat.

Nothing is gained by adding the transition in the second sentence. Finally, although I did not highlight it above, the placement of  increased  after  lend  is less clear than its placement above in (C). Altogether, this answer choice is a mess. Move on.

Here,   was being renewed  is a less clear version of the earlier  renewed rental market , an action compared to a description. Moreover, the conjunction in  so  presents the same problem that its cousin  therefore  had in the previous iteration of the sentence. Again, a  because  frame lays the groundwork for the conclusion or statement to follow (in the main clause), so neither a transition nor a conjunction is needed.

I hope that helps clarify any concerns you may have had on this question. Good luck with your studies.

- Andrew

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