Pack 12 Q4: In the late 2000s, financial experts said that...

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Pack 12, Question 4 of 5:

In the late 2000s, financial experts said that the global financial crisis led directly to the Great  Recession and anticipated income inequality to reach an eighty-year high with lower wages and unemployment that become more prevalent. 
 
A. Recession and anticipated income inequality to reach an eighty-year high with lower wages and unemployment that become more prevalent

B. Recession and anticipate income inequality to became more prevalent as lower wages and unemployment reach an eighty-year high

C. Recession and they anticipate income inequality to reach an eighty-year high with the prevalence of lower wages and unemployment

D. Recession and that they anticipated income inequality to reach an eighty-year high as lower wages and unemployment became more prevalent

E. Recession, and that they anticipated an eighty-year high to reach income inequality as lower wages and unemployment would become more prevalent

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Raxit85 · Answer

EMPOWERgmatVerbal ,

Can you please check the option A as it does not match with original sentence? Is that typo error or shall i consider option A as correct one rather than original sentence?

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aniket2045 · Answer

Answer is Option D

A. Recession and anticipated income inequality to reach an eighty-year high  with  lower wages and unemployment that become more prevalent - With changes original meaning of sentence.

B. Recession and  anticipate  income inequality to became more prevalent as lower wages and unemployment reach an eighty-year high - Unnecessary change of tense and changes meaning of sentence

C. Recession and  they   anticipate  income inequality to reach an eighty-year high with the prevalence of lower wages and unemployment - Same as b unnecessary change of tense.

D. Recession and that they anticipated income inequality to reach an eighty-year high as lower wages and unemployment became more prevalent - Proper parallelism and meaning is intact.

E. Recession, and that they  anticipated an eighty-year high  to reach income inequality as lower wages and unemployment would become more prevalent - changes original meaning of sentence.

saro · Answer

As option A doesnot match with the original sentence, correct answer is as written in answer choice D. Parallelism is perfect.

Raxit85 · Answer

After waiting for a while, now ill try to answer the question as option D is the original sentence.

In the late 2000s, financial experts said that the global financial crisis led directly to the Great Recession and that they anticipated income inequality to reach an eighty-year high as lower wages and unemployment became more prevalent.

In the late 2000s, financial experts said that the GFC led directly to GR and that they anticipated income inequality to reach an 80-yr high as lower wages and unemployment became more prevalent.

I think the sentence implying FE said that GFC led to GR and (FE said; as understood) that they (FE) anticipated income inequality to reach high as, 
reason 1 - lower wages (phrase) and
reason 2 - unemployment became more prevalent (clause).
Here also, parallelism is not maintained. So, original sentence is suspicious because of weird structure but let's hold it.

A. Recession and anticipated income inequality to reach an eighty-year high with lower wages and unemployment that become more prevalent
B. Recession and anticipate income inequality to became more prevalent as lower wages and unemployment reach an eighty-year high
C. Recession and they anticipate income inequality to reach an eighty-year high with the prevalence of lower wages and unemployment

B. Recession and  anticipate  income inequality to became more prevalent as lower wages and unemployment reach an eighty-year high - Incorrect verb tense and misplaced modifier changes the meaning of original sentence.

C. Recession and the y anticipate  income inequality to reach an eighty-year high with  the prevalence of  lower wages and unemployment - Incorrect verb tense and misplaced modifier changes the meaning of original sentence.

D. Recession and that they anticipated income inequality to reach an eighty-year high as lower wages and unemployment became more prevalent - Hold it as said above.

E. Recession, and that they anticipated a n eighty-year high to reach income inequality  as lower wages and unemployment would become more prevalent - Incorrect due to misplaced modifier of anticipation,, anticipation of 80-yr high to reach income inequality...unnecessary wordy and 80-yr high,,,what? can 80-yr high reach income inequality?? of course not.

I did not like the option D but it is better than other four options.

Imo. D

EMPOWERgmatVerbal ,
(out of curiosity) Is it possible to have such questions in real GMAT test? Where can we see such weird structure in sentence (as option D) to ease our ears?

EMPOWERgmatVerbal · Answer

Thanks for catching that, Raxit85 ! We'll go in and change it so that the original sentence matches option A.

EMPOWERgmatVerbal · Answer

Official Explanation

In the late 2000s, financial experts said that the global financial crisis led directly to the Great  Recession and anticipated income inequality to reach an eighty-year high with lower wages and unemployment that become more prevalent. 
 
 A. Recession  and anticipated  income inequality to reach an eighty-year high with lower wages and unemployment that  become  more prevalent
B. Recession  and anticipate  income inequality  to became  more prevalent as lower wages and unemployment reach an eighty-year high
C. Recession  and they anticipate  income inequality to reach an eighty-year high with the prevalence of lower wages and unemployment 
 D. Recession  and that they anticipated  income inequality to reach an eighty-year high as lower wages and unemployment  became  more prevalent 
 E. Recession , and that they anticipated  an eighty-year high to reach income inequality as lower wages and unemployment  would become  more prevalent 
 
After a quick glance over the options, it’s pretty clear that there are a lot of differences in how each is organized.

However, there is one thing we can focus on to eliminate wrong choices rather quickly – consistent verb tense!

If we look at the non-underlined portion of the sentence, we see that we have to match up the verbs in the underlined portion to the non-underlined portion:

In the late 2000s, financial experts  said  that the global financial crisis  led  directly to the Great  Recession and anticipated income inequality to reach an eighty-year high with lower wages and unemployment that become more prevalent.

Since we’re talking about a past event, we need to make sure all of our verbs are past tense to match. Let’s see how each one breaks down:
 
 A. Recession and  anticipated  income inequality to reach an eighty-year high with lower wages and unemployment that  become  more prevalent  
past/present = not consistent

B. Recession and  anticipate  income inequality  to became  more prevalent as lower wages and unemployment reach an eighty-year high  present/past = not consistent 
 (also “to became” isn’t a verb tense in English)

C. Recession and they  anticipate  income inequality to reach an eighty-year high with the prevalence of lower wages and unemployment  
present = not consistent

D. Recession and that they  anticipate  income inequality to reach an eighty-year high as lower wages and unemployment  became  more prevalent 
past/past = CONSISTENT!

E. Recession, and that they  anticipated  an eighty-year high to reach income inequality as lower wages and unemployment  would become  more prevalent  
past/past, but at a different time = not consistent 
 (Yes, “would become” is still past tense. However, we’re trying to express that these two events happened at the same time, not that unemployment became more prevalent after income inequality.) 
 
 There you have it – only option D uses consistent past tense verbs throughout the sentence.

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EMPOWERgmatVerbal · Answer

Well done  aniket2045 ! You cracked the code on this one! Kudos to you!

EMPOWERgmatVerbal · Answer

Sorry about the typo  saro  - we went in and fixed it for you!

Also, congrats on getting the correct answer! Kudos to you!

EMPOWERgmatVerbal · Answer

Well done, raxit 85! You cracked the code AND caught the typo! Kudos to you! To answer your question, it IS possible to have questions on the GMAT that may not sound right to your ears, especially if you get to answer some of the more advanced questions. Long-winded sentences like this can be tough to answer, so we wanted to give you some samples in case you confront them on the GMAT.

jrk23 · Answer

i am not able to understand the usuage of "that" after and. If FE did two things first is "said" and second is "anticipated" than how the usuage of that is parallel. Please help me guys.

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