Many states, in search of industries that are clean, fast-growing, and

gdatta I don't think any expert would suggest that we replace "that" with "industries" in this sentence. "That" is creating a modifier for "industries," not serving as a pronoun to stand in for that word. Be careful of overgeneralizing from one sentence to another. While "that" can be a regular pronoun, it has many other uses, including its use here as a relative pronoun that modifies a noun.

Hi everyone,

A dumb question,

How do you know the word "fast growing" is an adjective and not a verb?

If the word fast was taken out, will growing still be consider an adjective?

DmitryFarber sir VeritasKarishma mam I am able to eliminate options A,B and D due to non parallel structure but I am still not able to understand why Option E is incorrect? Please explain

Many states, in search of industries that are clean, fast-growing, and pay good wages to skilled workers, are trying to attract high-technology industries.

(A) clean, fast-growing, and pay
(B) clean, grow fast, and that pay
(C) clean and fast-growing and that pay
(D) clean and grow fast, paying
(E) clean, fast-growing, and paying
Ok, we are between the commas, modifier first of all I recommend the GMAT ninja youtube video "wtf that is doing in my sentence" then I think you definitely get this hard-level question easily. I get it within a minute so you can.
back to the awkward structure option, A is definitely not parallel Adjective, adjective and ohh clause wrong
In option B is good than A but hold on again are we comparing these three things if we are then what is 'that' doing in my sentence if we remove 'that' they are parallel of course not. Bro just watch that GMAT ninja video
and c is correct and you also watched other mentors in D and E

A) clean, fast-growing, and pay
There is a lack of continuity in the flow and clean should be followed by and

(B) clean, grow fast, and that pay
fast-growing is the right usage

(C) clean and fast-growing and that pay
This nails the tense and modifiers are exactly in place

(D) clean and grow fast, paying
grow isn't the appropriate use of words

(E) clean, fast-growing, and paying
and paying is modifying the sentence hence out

Therfore IMO C

[C] is the only option that maintains parallelism, so that should be the right answer.

Can anyone please explain why the choice E is not correct? All three elements in the list are connect properly with "are".

this post may help

In option D ,can that //are clean and //grow fast be parallel?
Some explanations to this question state otherwise.
Thanks

Sachinpri - No! In (D), "are clean" and "are grow" cannot be parallel.

Putting (D) in the given sentence:
Many states, in search of industries that are clean and grow fast, paying good wages to skilled workers, are trying to attract high-technology industries.

This implies,
that are clean,
and
that are grow fast (weird, isn't it? "growing fast" would be the correct noun form here)...this is enough to eliminate (D)

Hope this clarifies.

Hi,
Can this be a possible right answer, if it was present in the options?

"Many states, in search of industries that are clean, fast-growing, and that are paying good wages to skilled workers, are trying to attract high-technology industries."

(A) clean, fast-growing, and pay

clean = adjective
fast-growing = adjective
pay = verb

Parallelism error.

Can eliminate Option (A)

(B) clean, grow fast, and that pay

are clean = verb + modifier
grow fast = verb + modifier
that pay = modifier + verb

Clear parallelism error.

We would need an "and" between "are clean" and "grow fast" to make it work.

Can eliminate Option (B)

(C) clean and fast-growing and that pay

Exactly what we need! An "and" between "clean" & "fast-growing"

We have nested parallelism here.

that "are clean" and "are fast-growing"
that "pay good wages"

Looks good let's keep Option (C)

(D) clean and grow fast, paying

I was very shocked to see that only 1% of people marked Option (D).

I think everyone eliminated this option because "clean" and "grow" are not parallel. But in fact, they are perfectly parallel. -

are clean = verb + adjective
grow fast = verb + adjective

Functions "paying" could perform -
i) Verb-ing modifier : comma + "paying" (a verb-ing modifier) modifies a previous clause but there is no clause here to modify. So this possibility is incorrect. ❌
ii) Noun modifier : A noun modifier modifies the preceding element. Logically, we want "paying" to modify "industries" but clearly that is not possible here. ❌

Can eliminate Option (D). I'm still surprised only 1% marked this. Clearly either everyone missed this or I am over analyzing.

(E) clean, fast-growing, and paying

are clean = verb + adjective
are fast-growing = verb + adjective
are paying = present continuous verb

"are paying" is just one big verb nothing more. Easy to miss!

Another reason I used was that the sentence is stating general requirements for industries not for industries currently paying good wages

Can eliminate Option (E).

Option (C) is the answer!

Takeaways -
i) Avoid eliminating words on incorrect parallelism blindly. Look at the whole sentence and then eliminate.
ii) It is important to check in parallel statements if verb + “verb-ing” results in an action.

Thanks for reading!

GMATIntensive, @DmitryFarber,@ArtVandaley and other experts:
In option B, I'm confused why the parts aren't parallel here since they're all verb+adjective:
1. are clean (Verb+adjective)
2. grow fast (verb+adjective)
3. pay good (verb+adjective)