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Professor Clipper is one of the few analysts who believe that the expansion of the new home market will accelerate while  those of resale slows.

A) those of resale slows
B) it slows for resale
C) those of resale slow
D) the expansion of the retail market slows
E) there is slowing for the retail market's expansion

daagh · Accepted Answer

The difference between resale or retail is significant. . If it is retail in the original version, then this thread is not worth pursuing. If it is only resale and retails is rather a typo, then somebody should say so. At least at this stage, Veritas should intercept and clarify the status.

Vips0000 · Answer

Expansion is singular - Eliminate A and C In B 'it' can refer to expansion of market both. Ambiguity. Eliminate B E is so awkward it shouldnt have been a choice

Ans D it is.

Vineetk · Answer

Professor Clipper is one of the few analysts who believe that the expansion of the new home market will accelerate while those of resale slows.

A) those of resale slows
B) it slows for resale
C) those of resale slow
D) the expansion of the retail market slows
E) there is slowing for the retail market's expansion

The part before and after the while should be parallel. Thus, there are 2 error in the given sentence:
1. SV- The expansion is singular and cannot refer to those which is plural.
2. Meaning- Expansion of resale home market does not make sense.

We can eliminate A & C for 1 reason. 
In B, It slows for resale does not make sense.
E is incorrect due to parallelism. Voice issue - active & passive.
Correct option is D, which clears both the error.

banaorange · Answer

Is there a meaning change here? A-C talk about "resale" while D and E change it to "the retail market." These are two different concepts. I agree that A and C are wrong because of S/V, and E is plain awkward. But, B has the vague "it" while D changes meaning.
 
A) those of resale slows
B) it slows for resale
C) those of resale slow
D) the expansion of the retail market slows
E) there is slowing for the retail market's expansion

pqhai · Answer

Wow, very good catch!

After I re-read the question, your point makes sense. Thanks.

daagh · Answer

The kudo should go to banaorange. He is the one who pointed it out. I merely agreed with him.Well dome banaorange. A kudo for you, coincidentally your first I suppose.

Bluelagoon · Answer

When i read this question i see parallelism or comparison. one thing will accelerate and the other will slow. What will accelerate ? expansion of the new home market. So what will slow ? the expansion of the retail market.

D wins.

Nefertiti9 · Answer

Professor Clipper is one of the few analysts who believe that the expansion of the new home market will accelerate while those of resale slows.

A) those of resale slows--> what is those referring to ?
B) it slows for resale --> what is "it: referring to ?
C) those of resale slow---> slow (SV issue)
D) the expansion of the retail market slows-->  best choice ignoring the typo 
E) there is slowing for the retail market's expansion--> not expressing the intended meaning.

IMO retail is a typo here.

NarayanaGupta007 · Answer

My 5 seconds solution 
D option has apostrophe construction always correct on GMAT

Namangupta1997 · Answer

Hi  AjiteshArun

While option D is the most apt option amongst all the others, isn't it a bit flawed on parallelism front ? "Will accelerate" is simple future tense and "slows" is simple present.

AjiteshArun · Answer

Hi  Namangupta1997 ,

My reply is not specific to this question, but I generally ask my students not to look for "tense parallelism", as there's no reason to expect all the verbs in a sentence to always be in the same tense. We should definitely not consider it an absolute rule.

He  received  the memo yesterday  and   will submit  his application tomorrow.

There's nothing wrong with  will submit  here.

EducationAisle · Answer

I don't believe you should necessarily regard  while  as a parallelism marker.

A more important point is: as mentioned by  AjiteshArun , parallelism does  not  mean same tenses or same voices.

For example, following sentence is correct:

Naman is preparing for GMAT and will appear in GMAT in a couple of months.

The structure here is:

Naman X and Y (where X and Y are parallel structures)

Here,

X: is preparing for GMAT 
Y: will appear in GMAT in a couple of months.

Notice that X is present continuous, while Y is simple future. But that does not matter, from a parallelism perspective.

p.s. Our book    EducationAisle Sentence Correction Nirvana    discusses  this aspect of parallelism . Have attached the corresponding section of the book, for your reference.

ExpertsGlobal5 · Answer

Hello  Namangupta1997 ,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, tenses in a sentence need not always be parallel, even when linked by a comparison marker, because a single sentence can logically refer to actions in different time frames.

We hope this helps.
All the best!
Experts' Global Team

SolankiDas · Answer

retail market is not in the original sentence.

RonTargetTestPrep · Answer

Wow, that's a bad typo... Surely the last two choices are meant to say "resale" like the other three 😬

Besides, "retail" doesn't make sense in that position anyway. Both markets under discussion here—the market for newly built private homes and the market for homes being put up for resale—are retail markets.

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