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Most teen-agers who work for pay hold jobs that require few skills, little responsibility, and also no hope for career advancement.

(A) little responsibility, and also
(B) little responsibility, and with
(C) little responsibility, and offer
(D) carry little responsibility, and
(E) carry little responsibility, and offer
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Answer is E for the verb parallelism of 'require few skills', 'carry little responsibility', and 'offer no hope'
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only option e maintains parallelism
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At the very outset, it is clear that this question is testing parallelism.

Here we have a list of three things: few skills, little responsibility, and no hope.

The verb that opens the list is ‘require’. In order to maintain parallelism, we need verbs that agree with this.

Option E with ‘carry’ and ‘offer’ is the only option that satisfies the parallelism. Hence this is the best option.

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While E maintains parallelism, it results in a sentence that makes no sense. "Most teen-agers who work for pay hold jobs that require few skills, carry little responsibility, and offer no hope for career advancement." => "Most teen-agers who [teens modified by jobs which then again get modified]...." Something is missing there, isn't it? What do those teens actually do?Please correct me if I'm wrong..
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While E maintains parallelism, it results in a sentence that makes no sense. "Most teen-agers who work for pay hold jobs that require few skills, carry little responsibility, and offer no hope for career advancement." => "Most teen-agers who [teens modified by jobs which then again get modified]...." Something is missing there, isn't it? What do those teens actually do?Please correct me if I'm wrong..
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I was also perplexed at first, but the sentence makes sense.
The sentence tries to convey that ...Most teenagers, [in particular] teenagers who work in order to get some money, hold jobs...now which kind of jobs do they hold...this is described by THAT modifier.....
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While E maintains parallelism, it results in a sentence that makes no sense. "Most teen-agers who work for pay hold jobs that require few skills, carry little responsibility, and offer no hope for career advancement." => "Most teen-agers who [teens modified by jobs which then again get modified]...." Something is missing there, isn't it? What do those teens actually do?Please correct me if I'm wrong..
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I totally agree with you, I feel the sentence is incomplete.
After spending sufficient time, I chose the correct option E because it was the best among the five options. I have another question that I think is similar in the way this one is constructed. I bumped into the below question by Veritas yesterday.

Three federal lawsuits that charge a prominent investment firm with releasing fraudulent financial reports to promote sales of its mutual funds and raising disturbing questions about how to control fraudulent behavior in the financial services industry, behavior that appears to be on the rise.

(A) that charge a prominent investment firm with releasing fraudulent financial reports to promote sales of its mutual funds and raising disturbing questions about how to control fraudulent behavior in the financial services industry, behavior that appears to be on the rise


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E. This dense sentence includes several verbs, making its structure difficult to follow. The key is the verb “raise” (or “raising” or “raises”) about halfway through the sentence – that verb belongs to the lawsuits, as the point of the sentence is that “three lawsuits raise disturbing questions”. In choice A, the verb “raising” is incorrect for two reasons: one, it logically doesn’t make sense that the investment firm would both release the fraudulent documents and raise the disturbing questions about fraud. Two, without an active verb “raise” belonging to the lawsuits, the sentence doesn’t have a subject and verb. As written, choice A only modifies the lawsuit…it never introduces a verb for the subject. In B and C, the verb “raises” is singular, but the subject “three lawsuits” is plural. And in choice D, the active verb “charge” leaves the verb “raise” without a subject (stripped down it reads “lawsuits charge a firm with releasing documents raise” – the verb “raise” is left alone). Choice E, which commits none of these errors, is correct – but watch out for the unique appositive phrase at the end, a classic GMAT technique of hiding the right answer behind an unfamiliar sentence structure.


(E) charging a prominent investment firm with releasing fraudulent financial reports to promote sales of its mutual funds raise disturbing questions about how to control fraudulent behavior in the financial services industry, behavior that appears to be on the rise

As for parallelism, I know the option A is incorrect. But my doubt is regarding the SUBJECT-VERB agreement. Three federal lawsuits that (relative pronoun modifier) charge- Can the main subject not take the verb charge? Is there a gap in my understanding?

Going by the explanation provided by Veritas, Can I think that MOST TEENAGERS lacks an active verb ? Please help. I am not even sure if all this makes sense, I am kinda lost.
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