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05 Jan 2019, 10:54
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Records of the first 736 British convicts deported to Australia reveal convictions for crimes against property in all cases and they ranged from highway robbery to forgery.
A. convictions for crimes against property in all cases and they ranged
B. convictions in all cases were crimes against property and ranging
C. the ranging of convictions for crimes against property in all cases
D. that all were convicted of crimes against property ranging
E. that all of them had convictions for crimes that were against property; the range was
A. convictions for crimes against property in all cases and they ranged
B. convictions in all cases were crimes against property and ranging
C. the ranging of convictions for crimes against property in all cases
D. that all were convicted of crimes against property ranging
E. that all of them had convictions for crimes that were against property; the range was
10 Jan 2019, 03:43
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KAPLAN OFFICIAL EXPLANATION:
D
This sentence attempts to describe the crimes committed by the deported British convicts. The original (A) is awkwardly wordy and the pronoun they has more than one possible antecedent. In (B), the verbs linked by and aren't parallel; "were convicted" doesn't match "ranging." (C) is awkward and unidiomatic. (E) is wordy, and also, the second part of the sentence doesn't relate clearly to the first part. That raises the question, 'The range of what?" (D) is the best choice. Note that it's also the shortest (The most concise answer choice is often (but not always) the correct answer on the GMAT.)
ThatIndianGuy
09 Nov 2021, 19:16
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Why Option D is correct?
It seems that "ranging" is incorrectly modifying property rather than crimes, which is non sensical.
Please explain
