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28 Aug 2022, 16:54
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empowergmatverbal mentions that Choice B is not parallel because of the "it". To make Choice B correctly parallel, keeping "took 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to complete it", how would you make the first element "is... old" parallel? I am just confused as to where you would be an "it" in the first element.
Can someone also explain to me why Choice D is not parallel?
empowergmatverbal says Choice D is incorrect because "is more than 2,000 years old and 700,000 artisans took more than 36 years to complete" does not maintain parallelism.
Thank you!
Can someone also explain to me why Choice D is not parallel?
empowergmatverbal says Choice D is incorrect because "is more than 2,000 years old and 700,000 artisans took more than 36 years to complete" does not maintain parallelism.
Thank you!
28 Aug 2022, 17:22
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woohoo921
You can't keep that part, because that part is ungrammatical in combination with the non-underlined part of the sentence.
This "it" is trying to stand for the army of life-size warrior statues—which is already the subject of the sentence (and therefore the subject of both parallel parts).
In other words, with this "it" left in place, you have a sentence that says "The army of life-size warrior statues took 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to complete the army of life-size warrior statues".
More generally, you really don't want to get into the habit of trying to re-write GMAC's answer choices. The chance that you'll end up writing something that doesn't work for reasons that aren't tested on this exam is much too high. And more generally, the skill set required to WRITE these sentences and/or answer choices is something altogether different from, and mostly irrelevant to, the skill set you'll need to solve multiple-choice problems.
29 Aug 2022, 09:43
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woohoo921
Choice B is actually fine when it comes to parallel structure, but the meaning within the parallel structure makes no sense. As Ron explained above, the sentence would then mean "the army of terra cotta warriors... took 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to complete the army of terra cotta warriors." This means the army of terra cotta warriors created itself, and needed 700,000 artisans and 36+ years to do.
Regarding D, the reason parallelism is broken is because we actually drop parallelism entirely. At the beginning of the underline, after the conjunction, we introduce a new CLAUSE (a subject-verb pair). In this case we have "700,000 artisans took 36+ years to complete." One problem is that this clause doesn't specify what was completed. Now we NEED the 'it.' The other issue is that, since we're starting a new clause, there should be a comma before the 'and' in the non-underline (I almost never use the absence or presence of a comma exclusively to eliminate an answer choice, but most of the time when a conjunction is joining clauses, you should use a comma).
D's structure ends up being: "The army of terra cotta warriors is more than 2,000 years old and 700,000 artisans took 36+ years to complete." The more-correct version of this would be something like: "The army of terra cotta warriors is more than 2,000 years old, and 700,000 artisans took 36+ years to complete it."
