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Paper production accounts for approximately 40 percent of the world's industrial use of wood, and the market for paper is growing faster than it is for all major wood products.
(A) the market for paper is growing faster than it is for all
(B) the market for paper is growing faster than the market for all other
(C) the market for it is growing faster than it is for all other
(D) its market is growing faster than the market for all
(E) its market is growing faster than it is for all other
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(A) the market for paper is growing faster than it is for all
(B) the market for paper is growing faster than the market for all other
(C) the market for it is growing faster than it is for all other
(D) its market is growing faster than the market for all
(E) its market is growing faster than it is for all other
Verbal Question of The Day: Day 108: Sentence Correction
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Why in B, you don't need "IS" at the end to parallel?
Why in B, you don't need "IS" at the end to parallel?
20 Sep 2017, 12:08
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This is another one of those questions that has a pretty strong meaning component. Typical GMAT, for better or worse. (For a little bit of context on meaning in SC questions, check out our SC Guide for Beginners: https://gmatclub.com/forum/ultimate-sc- ... 44623.html.)
But the meaning is definitely a little bit off here, even if you assume that the pronoun refers back to "market": "The market for paper is growing faster than it is for all major wood products." Wait, paper IS a major wood product. So how can the market for paper alone grow faster than the market for ALL wood products? That doesn't make sense.
On your first pass through the question, you could be conservative and keep (A), but in a moment, we'll see a better option. (A) isn't our winner.
In any case, (B) is much, much clearer because it doesn't have those pronouns at all. (C) is out.
More importantly, we have another goofy pronoun here. The "its" before "market" could plausibly refer to either "wood" or "paper production" -- but neither of those would make sense. And again, "paper" basically functions as a modifier at the beginning of the sentence.
So (D) can be eliminated, too.
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I don't see any major grammatical issues here. I suppose that there's a worry about pronoun ambiguity, because "it" could, in theory, refer back to "market" or "paper" or "market for paper" -- but I really don't think that's too awful. Sure, it could be better, but it's not a DEFINITE error, and I don't think it's a good reason to eliminate (A), at least not on the first pass through the question.
But the meaning is definitely a little bit off here, even if you assume that the pronoun refers back to "market": "The market for paper is growing faster than it is for all major wood products." Wait, paper IS a major wood product. So how can the market for paper alone grow faster than the market for ALL wood products? That doesn't make sense.
On your first pass through the question, you could be conservative and keep (A), but in a moment, we'll see a better option. (A) isn't our winner.
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This solves both of our concerns in (A). The pronoun "it" is changed to "the market" -- so any ambiguity issues are resolved in (B). Plus, "all major wood products" has been changed to "all other major wood products." That makes much more sense. Keep (B).
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OK, now the pronouns are getting really messy. "It" shows up twice in a row, and that makes things pretty confusing, since the two "its" are trying to refer back to different referents ("paper" and "market", respectively). You could also argue that the first "it" should refer to paper, but "paper" actually acts as a modifier earlier in the sentence -- we have "paper production", not just "paper."
In any case, (B) is much, much clearer because it doesn't have those pronouns at all. (C) is out.
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(D) has the same issue with "all" that we saw in (A): it doesn't make sense for the market for paper to grow faster than the market for ALL wood products, since paper itself is a wood product.
More importantly, we have another goofy pronoun here. The "its" before "market" could plausibly refer to either "wood" or "paper production" -- but neither of those would make sense. And again, "paper" basically functions as a modifier at the beginning of the sentence.
So (D) can be eliminated, too.
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I like the use of "other" in (D), but the rest of it has the same pronoun issues that we see in many of the other answer choices. (E) is gone, and (B) is the right answer.
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Just starting out in SC hence my reasoning might not be as good as some of the other members in here. Anyways I narrowed down to B simply because the "it" was not very clear. I guess the antecedent for "it" in this question is paper and this changes the meaning of the sentence.
The correct answer thus should eliminate the pronoun antecedent issue.
