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Re: Shoppers in sporting goods stores, unlike in department stores, do ver [#permalink] New post   14 Aug 2022, 18:42
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Anshul1223333 wrote:
please review my understanding below:

C. those in department stores, do very little impulse shopping, do not buy a pair of skis and a boomerang when they come in for a basketball, but leave with only a basketball

''do very little...'' , ''do not buy'' is it ok to separate the two verbs with a comma?


please remember that you're looking at a wrong answer.

In THAT context, no, that's not an acceptable form—but the verbs aren't the source of the problem. The issue here is that choice C tries to write a LIST OF THREE PARALLEL ITEMS as "x, y, BUT z". That is not a framework that actually exists in English.
The only two conjunctions that CAN be used to make lists of 3 or more items are "and" and "or".
I.e.,
[i]x, y, and z
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x, y, or z
are valid frameworks for a list of 3 parallel items. There are no others.




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D. those in department stores, do very little impulse shopping; someone who comes in for a basketball will leave with a basketball only and not buy a pair of skis and a boomerang as well

''and a boomerang as well'' should not this be 'or' a boomerrang.


The meaning of this choice is "Shoppers will buy only what they walked into the store for; they will not ALSO buy x and y other things".

"Shoppers will buy only what they walked into the store for; they will not also buy x other thing OR y other thing" would ALSO be a reasonable and valid form for the sentence—but that's just not the way in which D is written.
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Re: Shoppers in sporting goods stores, unlike in department stores, do ver [#permalink] New post   14 Aug 2022, 18:50
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Anshul1223333 wrote:
is usage of 'as well'' justififed. when is this usage called redundant? always ok to use along 'and' ?


There's no redundancy.

Please consider this simpler version of the sentence for a moment:

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Someone who comes in for a basketball will leave with a basketball only and not buy a pair of skis as well

In this sentence, this "and" connects the VERBS "leave" and "[not] buy".
"As well" isn't redundant because it doesn't link the same two verbs. Instead, "as well" means "as well as a basketball". (If this isn't clear, try substituting "in addition" for "as well"; you may find that construction more intuitive.)

The only extra complication in this sentence is that, instead of just "a pair of skis", it's "a pair of skis and a boomerang". Still no redundancy—this new "and" connects the skis and the boomerang, while the other "and" and the "as well" are still doing the same jobs mentioned above.
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Re: Shoppers in sporting goods stores, unlike in department stores, do ver [#permalink] New post   27 Sep 2022, 23:31
In the option D isn't 'as well' at the end redundant because we have 'and' also in the sentence.
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Re: Shoppers in sporting goods stores, unlike in department stores, do ver [#permalink] New post   28 Sep 2022, 04:41
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BansalT wrote:
In the option D isn't 'as well' at the end redundant because we have 'and' also in the sentence.


Hello BansalT,

We hope this finds you well.

As we have mentioned above, the use of "as well" is arguably a bit redundant here, but redundancy is not a deal-breaker on GMAT.

Redundancy and stylistic issues are of the least importance in GMAT sentence correction; these factors are only to be taken into account in order to choose between otherwise error-free answer choices.

We hope this helps.
All the best!
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Re: Shoppers in sporting goods stores, unlike in department stores, do ver [#permalink] New post   30 Sep 2022, 00:39
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In the option D isn't 'as well' at the end redundant because we have 'and' also in the sentence.


Not redundant.
"...will buy X, and not buy Y as well" specifically clarifies that it's certain that the person is going to purchase thing X, and that the only issue in question is whether she/he is ALSO going to purchase thing Y—i.e., IN ADDITION TO the thing X that she/he is definitely going to purchase no matter what.

If "as well" is taken away, that specificity of meaning is lost and a broader range of possibilities is admitted. E.g., that wording could also work if thing X and thing Y are alternatives, of which the customer is going to buy one or the other but not both.
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Shoppers in sporting goods stores, unlike in department stores, do ver [#permalink] New post   20 Jun 2023, 07:43
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Can you please help me with concept of lists? Can we combine three verbs with but? Ex. She played, singed, but did not sleep entire night? Is this one of the error in Option C?

Three verbs - do very little impulse shopping, do not buy a pair of ski, but leave ..

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