First sold May 1, 1924, iodized salt that made its way in regular di

rheam25 I think in both the options the ing-modifier 'making' is ambiguous , it can refer to the action of 'sold' in the first phrase and action of 'found' in the second clause.
So the sentence would have been correct if we placed a conjunction between the modifiers.
Also for option B, modifier and modified entity must be placed close to each other

Hi

Let me try to address your query.

1) I am not sure why you feel there is no verb - "playing" itself is a verb that tells us what iodized salt did.
2) "Also playing" is problematic, but not for parallelism reasons. The problem is that it changes the intended meaning of the original sentence. The original sentence brings in an angle of discovery by using "found to play" which is completely omitted in "also playing...". Since there is no logical reason to change the meaning, and also looking at the other four options on this point, option (A) is better than option (E).

Please note, there is no problem with option (E) grammatically - the meaning issue is the problem. Hope this helps.

If A is the right answer, isnt there supposed to be a comma b/w goiter and has? AkashM AndrewN

Hello, pranayraj98. The original sentence does not need a comma because the relative clause, the one that begins with that, contains essential information and needs to resolve before we can get to the verb. If that were which and the information were considered non-essential, then yes, we would expect to see commas both before and after the relative clause.


The sentence follows a subject-relative clause-verb-participle construct. We are only interested in the earlier part, though, relative to your question. Consider a similar, simpler sentence. We would not write, The car that drove down the street, was black. I will say, nevertheless, that the GMAT™ takes a somewhat relaxed stance on comma usage, so unless you are positive that there is an error, you should probably look to other points of consideration to assess the merits of each option.

I hope this information proves useful to you. Thank you for thinking to ask.

- Andrew

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