That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft

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That the new managing editor rose from the publicationâ€™s â€œsoftâ€

giddi77 · Answer

Not sure but E?

The " is more of  suggests that the latter pat has to be present tense. Also we need both parts of the sentences to be in active voice.

Event X "is" ... than Y "is" ..

A/B: being a woman - passive - doesn't go with first part
C - definitely funny - incorrect - apple vs orange comparison
D - past tense
E - CORRECT

vivek123 · Answer

It should be 'E'.

Only 'E' is parallel!

"new MD is more of a landmark than that she is a woman."

giddi77 · Answer

Thanks vivek. When I was in high school my grammat teacher use to mention that ENGLISH IS A MONKEY LANGUAGE. There are more exceptions than rules. 

I find that more than half of the times LOGIC does not work. I am still learning the GMATical rules.

I must comment that your questions and participation/discussion here has helped me (and definitely other GMAT clubbers) a lot and encouraged me to solve more SCs from the 1000's collection.

andy_gr8 · Answer

My vote for E too.

I arrived to E like this

That(1st part)..... that(2nd part)....

ps_dahiya · Answer

E for ||ism.


" she is more of a landmark  in the industry than that  she is a woman "

gmacvik · Answer

OA is E...Somehow I didn't look at the tense correctly and picked D.

ywilfred · Answer

I go with (E). We're doing a comparison here: "is X than is Y." (A) lacks parallelism, (B) and (C) are awkward, (D) suggests that she's presently a man while in the past she was a woman.

That the new managing editor rose from the publications soft

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