niyatisuri wrote:
Hi GMATNinja, egmat,
Could you please help tackle this question, I was lost while tracing down
issues.
Looking forward learning from you
Regards,
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(A) The original building and loan associations were organized as limited life funds, whose members made monthly payments on their share subscriptions, then taking turns drawing on the funds for home mortgages.
The phrase "then taking turns" is an issue.
First, it doesn't make sense for it to serve as a modifier for the previous clause, since it seems to be a new action that takes place after the members "made" payments. But "taking" isn't a verb, so it can't function as a new action that occurs after "made."
If there's no logical way to interpret "taking," it's a problem. (A) is out.
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(B) The original building and loan associations were organized as limited life funds, whose members made monthly payments on their share subscriptions, and then taking turns drawing on the funds for home mortgages.
Because we see "and," the modifier "taking" has to be parallel to another modifier. Again, "made" is a verb, so that won't work. Because there's nothing for "taking to be parallel to," we can kill (B).
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(C) The original building and loan associations were organized as limited life funds, whose members made monthly payments on their share subscriptions and then took turns drawing on the funds for home mortgages.
Now we're in business. The verb phrase "took turns drawing on the funds" is parallel to "made monthly payments." Perfectly logical, too. Keep (C).
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(D) The original building and loan associations were organized as limited life funds, whose members made monthly payments on their share subscriptions and then took turns, they drew on the funds for home mortgages.
As Karishma noted, this is a run-on sentence -- we have two independent clauses with no conjunction. Not cool. Eliminate (D).
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(E) The original building and loan associations were organized as limited life funds, whose members made monthly payments on their share subscriptions and then drew, taking turns on the funds for home mortgages.
Same problem as (A). First, "taking turns on the funds" doesn't logically modify the previous clause. Worse, I know what it means to take turns
drawing on the funds, but taking turns on the funds themselves? Taking turns doing
what, exactly?
I don't know, and that's a problem. So (E) is out, and (C) is our winner.
I hope that helps!