The consultant explained that companies that establish successfully op

Apart from the above errors.

Here is an important takeaway.
An adjective cannot modify another adjective.Only an adverb can modify an adjective or it modifies
a verb but not noun etc >>>>The seeming swift mouse ran .(WRONG).The seemingly swift mouse(RIGHT)

So,

establish successfully operations(adverb modifying Noun)

correct form would be

successfully establish operations(adverb modifying Verb--fine)

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consistently protect .. timelessly lobby ... aggressively empower

it almost rhymes. D all the way.

The word successfully is not placed correctly. so A is wrong.

C,B and E is not parrallel
A, although parrallel but it does not follow the VAN pattern (see on CR Bible, which said that GMAT prefer adj, adv to Noun)

D is the best answer

I'm sucked in this differences with adv. placement in this question! A. "with consistency" should be replaced by "consistently", so do other two. B has the same problem. C-"consistently" is used to modify "protect", wrong. E-"of which" is wrong.

Ans - 'D'
Timing - 1.48 Mins

Adverbs modify adjectives or verbs and adjectives modify Nouns or Pronouns. In 'A' Successfully (Adverb) modifies Operations (Noun) that is incorrect.

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'That' is preferred to 'which' because companies with limited characteristics are mentioned here (restrictive structure).
B) and E) out.

Adverb vs adjective - You may have noticed the term 'logical prediction' in GMAT OG. Here it should be used.
......that successfully established…… - is the correct use of adverb "success'.
A), C) out.

D) has correct parallel structure, correct use of adverb & adjectives, and logical prediction.

Your doubt about A), it has adverbial error, parallelism error and logical prediction error.

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The consultant explained that companies that establish successfully operations abroad protect with consistency their intellectual property, lobby government officials without tiring, and empower local managers with aggression.

A) that establish successfully operations abroad protect with consistency their intellectual property, lobby government officials without tiring, and empower local managers with aggression - 'establish successfully' is incorrect - successfully establish is correct ; parallelism is better in D

B) which establish operations abroad successfully protect intellectual property consistently, lobby government officials without tiring, and empower local managers aggressively - which needs to preceded by a comma; modifier issue with successfully; parallelism is not as good as in D

C) that establish successful operations abroad consistently protect their intellectual property, lobby tirelessly government officials, and empower aggressive local management- modifier issue- successful operations is incorrect; successfully should modify establish ; parallelism is not as good as in D

D) that successfully establish operations abroad consistently protect their intellectual property, tirelessly lobby government officials, and aggressively empower local managers - Correct

E) of which operations abroad are successfully established protect their intellectual property consistently, lobby tirelessly government officials, and aggressively empower local management - of which is incorrect


Answer D

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The three listed behaviors of companies that successfully establish operations abroad are logically parallel; therefore, they should be structurally parallel. In the original sentence, the first activity “protect with consistency their intellectual property” is not structured in parallel fashion to the second and third activities. Also, the phrase
“empower local managers with aggression” suggests that the local managers are being given the quality of aggression, which is not contextually appropriate; “aggression” is better applied to the act of empowering the managers, not to the managers themselves.
(A) This choice is incorrect as it repeats the original sentence.
(B) This choice incorrectly uses the relative pronoun "which." "Which" should be used for noun modifiers, whereas here "which" is incorrectly used to introduce a set of clauses that are integral to the sentence. Also, the second activity “lobby government officials without tiring” is not structured in parallel fashion to the first and third
activities.
(C) This sentence fails to follow an appropriate parallel structure as it lists the three activities of companies that are successful abroad. Also, the phrase “empower aggressive local managers” suggests that the local managers are aggressive which is not contextually appropriate; “aggressive” is better applied to the act of empowering
the managers, not to the managers themselves.
(D) CORRECT. The three logically parallel activities in this sentence are structurally similar and the sentence is clear and concise.
(E) This choice incorrectly begins with the phrase "of which", which suggests that the operations of the company may be established abroad by a third party other than the company itself. Also, the three logically parallel activities are not structured in parallel fashion.

The consultant explained that companies that establish successfully operations abroad protect with consistency their intellectual property, lobby government officials without tiring, and empower local managers with aggression.


A) that establish successfully operations abroad protect with consistency their intellectual property, lobby government officials without tiring, and empower local managers with aggression

It sounds weird. The structure is not good

B) which establish operations abroad successfully protect intellectual property consistently, lobby government officials without tiring, and empower local managers aggressively

You can't have a which without a comma. Remember restrictive vs non-restrictive?

C) that establish successful operations abroad consistently protect their intellectual property, lobby tirelessly government officials, and empower aggressive local management

Lobby tirelessly government officials, really? Bad parallelism and sounds weird.

D) that successfully establish operations abroad consistently protect their intellectual property, tirelessly lobby government officials, and aggressively empower local managers

E) of which operations abroad are successfully established protect their intellectual property consistently, lobby tirelessly government officials, and aggressively empower local management

Wrong parallelism, and "of which" is just wrong