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Re: The development of a new jumbo rocket that is expected to carry the Un [#permalink] New post  22 Jul 2020, 05:55
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The core sentence after ignoring the inessential modifier is a compound sentence that is connected by the coordinate conjunction ‘and’. Apparently, it looks as if the second part is simply a prepositional phrase, but actually, the intended sentence has an element of ellipsis, that is implicit

Will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle can, and (will be able to deliver) at a lower cost.

It makes complete structural sense now and is parallel too logically. The ellipsis is not stated to avoid repetition In addition, the comparison between the two deliveries is matched with the use of the verb ‘can’

(E) A newly developed jumbo rocket, which is expected to carry the United States into its next phase of space exploration, will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle and to cost less.

The ellipsis doe not work well in E

will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle and (will be able to deliver) to cost less. One can see the ellipsis does not make much sense. Secondly, the verb ‘can’ is missing and thus it becomes an illegitimate comparison between the rocket’s delivery and the shuttle.

All this is my gut feeling; even without the ellipsis, still D can be decided simply by virtue of parallel comparison of actions and E will simply fall by the way side


I don't quite get how "... and at a lower cost" can be parallel even though I see daagh 's point. However, if thats the case, and ellipsis allows this preposition to be parallell, wouldn't that imply that we cannot eliminate splits based on parallelism fastly because as a matter of fact anything can be parallel - on second sight - if the writer implies some form of ellipsis?
I know that this is a far fetched thought but I eliminated (D) so quickly just because of the "... and at a lower cost", hence missing the proper comparison that other answer choices were missing.

Can we conclude that this question is all about the faulty comparison and not the parallelism split at the end?
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Re: The development of a new jumbo rocket that is expected to carry the Un [#permalink] New post  02 Feb 2021, 06:19
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The development of a new jumbo rocket that is expected to carry the United States into its next phase of space exploration will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle and at a lower cost.


(A) The development of a new jumbo rocket that is expected to carry the United States into its next phase of space exploration will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle and at a lower cost.

(D) A newly developed jumbo rocket, which is expected to carry the United States into its next phase of space exploration, will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle can, and at a lower cost.

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MartyTargetTestPrep, GMATNinja, GMATGuruNY, AjiteshArun, VeritasPrepHailey, BrightOutlookJenn,

I'm stuck with this one! I've few queries in this question.
Q1:
What does the blue part do here? Is it modifier or any ellipsis are hidden here like the following?
A newly developed jumbo rocket, which is expected to carry the United States into its next phase of space exploration, will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle can, and (will be able to deliver) at a lower cost.

Q2: The 'which' is definitely the non-essential modifier. if we remove the 'which' part then the meaning should not be changed so far i know, right? But, if we remove the 'which' part then how do we know that 'what happens to United States'?

Thanks in advanced..
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Re: The development of a new jumbo rocket that is expected to carry the Un [#permalink] New post  02 Feb 2021, 06:51
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The development of a new jumbo rocket that is expected to carry the United States into its next phase of space exploration will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle and at a lower cost.


(A) The development of a new jumbo rocket that is expected to carry the United States into its next phase of space exploration will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle and at a lower cost.

(D) A newly developed jumbo rocket, which is expected to carry the United States into its next phase of space exploration, will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle can, and at a lower cost.

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Hi Honorable Expert,
GMATGuruNY,
In one of my recent posts you said (link given below) that the things that DEFINITELY HAPPENS and MIGHT NOT HAPPEN can't be paralleled each other!
It seems that in the choice D, 'will be able' is a bit hypothetical which MIGHT NOT HAPPEN in future and the 'can' is something that DEFINITELY HAPPENS.
So, how did we parallel those action?
https://gmatclub.com/forum/the-normativ ... l#p2702583

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The development of a new jumbo rocket that is expected to carry the Un [#permalink] New post  02 Feb 2021, 06:54
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The development of a new jumbo rocket that is expected to carry the United States into its next phase of space exploration will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle and at a lower cost.


(A) The development of a new jumbo rocket that is expected to carry the United States into its next phase of space exploration will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle and at a lower cost.

(D) A newly developed jumbo rocket, which is expected to carry the United States into its next phase of space exploration, will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle can, and at a lower cost.

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MartyTargetTestPrep, GMATNinja, GMATGuruNY, AjiteshArun, VeritasPrepHailey, BrightOutlookJenn,
The whole sentence seems absurd to me! It seems that there is an ellipsis here :? The core sentence could be (if I don't miss anything):
A newly developed jumbo rocket will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle can (be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit) , and (will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit) at a lower cost.
Why we don't have a subject (jumbo rocket) after , and?
This sentence resembles the following one:
They ate mango, and drink four glasses of water.
Shouldn't we put a subject after , and?
Isn't it absurd, sir?
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Re: The development of a new jumbo rocket that is expected to carry the Un [#permalink] New post  02 Feb 2021, 14:56
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The development of a new jumbo rocket that is expected to carry the United States into its next phase of space exploration will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle and at a lower cost.


(A) The development of a new jumbo rocket that is expected to carry the United States into its next phase of space exploration will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle and at a lower cost.

(D) A newly developed jumbo rocket, which is expected to carry the United States into its next phase of space exploration, will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle can, and at a lower cost.

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Hi Honorable Expert,
MartyTargetTestPrep, GMATNinja, GMATGuruNY, AjiteshArun, VeritasPrepHailey, BrightOutlookJenn,
The whole sentence seems absurd to me! It seems that there is an ellipsis here :? The core sentence could be (if I don't miss anything):
A newly developed jumbo rocket will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle can (be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit) , and (will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit) at a lower cost.
Why we don't have a subject (jumbo rocket) after , and?
This sentence resembles the following one:
They ate mango, and drink four glasses of water.
Shouldn't we put a subject after , and?
Isn't it absurd, sir?


The sentence you provided is correct in terms of parallelism.
They ate mango, and drink four glasses of water.
The stem starts with "They". after it it starts with (1) ate mango (2) drink four glasses of water

Put both of them in front of "They" separately: They(1) and; They (2).

If the meaning they want to convey and grammatically correct then we should not repeat the subject in the second part of parallelism. This will be tested again and again on the GMAT.
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Re: The development of a new jumbo rocket that is expected to carry the Un [#permalink] New post  17 Feb 2021, 09:39
TheUltimateWinner wrote:
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The development of a new jumbo rocket that is expected to carry the United States into its next phase of space exploration will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle and at a lower cost.


(A) The development of a new jumbo rocket that is expected to carry the United States into its next phase of space exploration will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle and at a lower cost.

(D) A newly developed jumbo rocket, which is expected to carry the United States into its next phase of space exploration, will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle can, and at a lower cost.

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Hi Honorable Expert,
MartyTargetTestPrep, GMATNinja, GMATGuruNY, AjiteshArun, VeritasPrepHailey, BrightOutlookJenn,
The whole sentence seems absurd to me! It seems that there is an ellipsis here :? The core sentence could be (if I don't miss anything):
A newly developed jumbo rocket will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle can (be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit) , and (will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit) at a lower cost.
Why we don't have a subject (jumbo rocket) after , and?
This sentence resembles the following one:
They ate mango, and drink four glasses of water.
Shouldn't we put a subject after , and?
Isn't it absurd, sir?

I'm eagerly expecting feedback from my honorable experts! Appreciating your help, experts.
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The development of a new jumbo rocket that is expected to carry the Un [#permalink] New post  17 Feb 2021, 09:42
TheUltimateWinner wrote:
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The development of a new jumbo rocket that is expected to carry the United States into its next phase of space exploration will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle and at a lower cost.


(A) The development of a new jumbo rocket that is expected to carry the United States into its next phase of space exploration will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle and at a lower cost.

(D) A newly developed jumbo rocket, which is expected to carry the United States into its next phase of space exploration, will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle can, and at a lower cost.

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Hi Honorable Expert,
GMATGuruNY,
In one of my recent posts you said (link given below) that the things that DEFINITELY HAPPENS and MIGHT NOT HAPPEN can't be paralleled each other!
It seems that in the choice D, 'will be able' is a bit hypothetical which MIGHT NOT HAPPEN in future and the 'can' is something that DEFINITELY HAPPENS.
So, how did we parallel those action?
https://gmatclub.com/forum/the-normativ ... l#p2702583

Thanks__

GMATGuruNY
It seems that you missed post. May I have your feedback sir?
Thank you so much...
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Re: The development of a new jumbo rocket that is expected to carry the Un [#permalink] New post  19 Feb 2021, 17:23
The development of a new jumbo rocket that is expected to carry the United States into its next phase of space exploration will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle and at a lower cost.


(A) The development of a new jumbo rocket that is expected to carry the United States into its next phase of space exploration will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle and at a lower cost. X

-comparing 'heavier load of instruments' and 'space shuttle'

(B) The development of a new jumbo rocket is expected to carry the United States into its next phase of space exploration and be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit at a lower cost than the space shuttle. X

-the major error here is the sentence says the rocket is expected to deliver the space shuttle

(C) The new development of a jumbo rocket, which is expected to carry the United States into its next phase of space exploration, will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit at a lower cost than the space shuttle. X

-same issue as B)

(D) A newly developed jumbo rocket, which is expected to carry the United States into its next phase of space exploration, will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle can, and at a lower cost. CORRECT

(E) A newly developed jumbo rocket, which is expected to carry the United States into its next phase of space exploration, will be able to deliver a heavier load of instruments into orbit than the space shuttle and to cost less. X
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