avohden wrote:
Situated on a splendid Adriatic harbor and surrounded by hills, blessed with an average of 300 days of sunshine a year, a variety of museums, great restaurants, and a vital, multicultural population, the city has just about everything a visitor could ask for.
A. Situated on a splendid Adriatic harbor and surrounded by hills, blessed with an average of 300 days of sunshine a year, a variety of museums, great restaurants, and a vital, multicultural population
B. Situated on a splendid Adriatic harbor, surrounded by hills, blessed with an average of 300 days of sunshine a year, and a variety of museums, great restaurants, as well as a vital, multicultural population
C. Situated on a splendid Adriatic harbor, surrounded by hills, and blessed with an average of 300 days of sunshine a year, a variety of museums, great restaurants, and a vital, multicultural population
D. Situated on a splendid Adriatic harbor, as well as surrounded by hills, blessed with an average of 300 days of sunshine a year, a variety of museums, great restaurants, and a vital, multicultural population
E. Situated on a splendid Adriatic harbor, surrounded by hills, as well as blessed with an average of 300 days of sunshine a year, and a variety of museums, great restaurants, and a vital, multicultural population
Dear
avohden,
I'm happy to help.
Usually, I find the Veritas questions very good. I am surprised that, here, the make the
faux pas of ending a sentence with a preposition. The real GMAT would never do that! That's in the non-underlined part. The content of the question is perfectly clear, although it's a bit over the top in testing just one thing to the max.
The basic idea is, that when you list three things, the proper format is
P, Q, and RCommas separating all terms, and the word "and" before the very last term. Incorrect forms include
P and Q, R
P, Q, R
P as well as Q, RNow, look at the three participles in parallel
P = "
Situated on ..."
Q = "
surrounded by hills"
R = "
blessed with ..."
The only answer that has the correct structure for these three element is
(C).
Now, look at the four elements with which the city is "
blessed"
P = "
an average of 300 days of sunshine a year"
Q = "
a variety of museums"
R = "
great restaurants"
S = "
a vital, multicultural population"
Again, these must be in the form
P, Q, R, and Sand
(C) has these correct.
Therefore, only
(C) could be the answer. Does this make sense?
Mike
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