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This office answer seems so not correct to me. I strongly believe that "As long as" expresses a condition and not a lengh comparison.
How can "length of which" be awkward compared to "as long as". This is throwing me off the track. GMATNinja can you please share some expert thoughts. I appreciate in advance.

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A. to be the world’s smallest network digital camcorder, the length of which is that of a hand held computer, and it weighs
"It" is referring to computer rather than camcorder so this option is incorrect. Moreover "to be" makes this option passive.

B. to be the smallest network digital camcorder in the world, which is as long as a hand held computer, weighing
This sentence makes "which is as long as a hand held computer" as non essential clause and means that camcorder is weighing only 11 ounce. But logically speaking Camcorder length and weight both as its attribute. Moreover "to be" makes this option passive. Moreover "Which" is referring to "world".

C. is the smallest network digital camcorder in the world, which is as long as a hand held computer, and it weighs
"It" is referring to computer rather than camcorder and "Which" is referring to "world", so this option is incorrect.

D. is the world’s smallest network digital camcorder, which is as long as a hand held computer and weighs.
"Which" is clearly referring to "camcorder".

E. is the world’s smallest network digital camcorder, the length of which is that of a hand held computer, weighing
"the length of which is that of a hand held computer" is an awkward construction. "which is as long as a hand held computer" is much better.

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Hello souvik19,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, "as long as" is used as both a conditional marker and as a comparison of length; here the full phrase should be read as "which is as long as a handheld computer (is)"; the second "is" is implied.

We hope this helps.
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Is parallelism correct in the above the sentence ?

As per my understanding - length of which... is modifier and it weighs is a clause here .

Is my understanding correct ?

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d] to be the world???s smallest network digital camcorder, which is as long as a handheld computer and weighs

had the correct choice had ''to be'' at the start. Would it be wrong? Where can we use ''to be'' , in simple present situations??

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"To be" functions as a verb modifier and so doesn't have its own tense. I could write "Tim claims to be the world's coolest dad" or "Before his kids explained otherwise, Tim claimed to be the world's coolest dad" or "After he masters Kareem's skyhook, Tim will claim to be the world's coolest dad."

So the main verb can be past, present, or future tense.

The takeaways: 1) "to be" doesn't have a tense, and 2) there are plenty of better decision points to use in this problem.

I hope that helps!

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Hi Experts,

I had rejected Option A & C because "and it weighs" seems parallel to "it claims". Thus, we get a "The electronics company has unveiled what it (the world???s smallest network digital camcorder) weighs" which doesn't make sense.

Please advise whether my reasoning is valid.

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Not really. When the same pronoun appears in two distinct clauses (like the two instances of "it" here), the two occurrences of the pronoun can stand for two different nouns—as long as there's sufficient clarity in context. (NB: You won't have to worry about the latter point for the GMAT, which does not explicitly test pronoun ambiguity.)

What is problematic in that part of choices A and C is the use of "and IT weighs..." That's a complete sentence (independent clause) following "and"—meaning that the other parallel part has to be another independent clause. The only such clause available is the one that begins the sentence ("The electronics company has unveiled...").
Putting these two clauses in parallel ("The electronics company has unveiled ... AND it weighs...") is nonsense.

The ideas that SHOULD be parallel are the given facts about the length and width of the device. This is just basic parallelism—and it's all you need to solve the problem, because only choice D does it correctly (with two verbs introducing the two physical measurements)!
The two choices with "and" don't make sense for the reasons explained above. Neither do the two choices that write "weighing" as a comma _ING modifier, since the device's weight cannot sensibly modify a statement about its length.

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The electronics company has unveiled what it claims to be the world’s smallest network digital camcorder, the length of which is that of a handheld computer, and it weighs less than 11 ounces.

The electronics company has unveiled
what it claims to be the world’s smallest network digital camcorder
, the length of which is that of a handheld computer,
and it weighs less than 11 ounces.

Meaning: Some electronics company has unveiled a network digital camcorder. This company claims that this digital camcorder is the smallest in the world. Its length is the same as the length of a handheld computer and it weighs less than 11 ounces

Grammar:
1. All SV pairs are highlighted above and are correct as is
2. the first "it" (what it claims) refers to the electronics company while the second "it" (it weighs) logically refers to handheld computer

I personally don't find any deterministic errors in the sentence. I believe "Claims to be" is idiomatically correct. One can argue about some ambiguity with the usage of "it" but I believe that "it" logically can only refer to one entity (as mentioned above).

(A) to be the world’s smallest network digital camcorder, the length of which is that of a handheld computer, and it weighs
Hold

(B) to be the smallest network digital camcorder in the world, which is as long as a handheld computer, weighing
Incorrect: The main error that stands out for me is ",weighing" as it seems to illogically modify the preceding clause. However, "weighing less than 11 ounces" neither shows the how aspect nor the result of "the length = length of a handheld computer

I believe the usage of "which" is fine as "in the world" modifies the preceding noun "camcorder" and so "which" can jump over this modifier to modify the far away noun "camcorder"

(C) is the smallest network digital camcorder in the world, which is as long as a handheld computer, and it weighs
Hold I honestly don't find any deterministic error out here. However, I believe "claims is" is better than "claims to be" Hence, for now, I would reject (A) and keep (C)

Again, "in the world" modifies the camcorder. So the "which" can jump to modify the noun "camcorder"

(D) is the world’s smallest network digital camcorder, which is as long as a handheld computer and weighs
Hold Wow! Okay, so now I find (D) grammatically correct as well as less wordy compared to (C). I like how the two facts - length and weight - are made parallel in one clause. Moreover, the "which" is right next to the noun it is supposed to modify. So, it removes the possible ambiguity that (C) has

(E) is the world’s smallest network digital camcorder, the length of which is that of a handheld computer, weighing
Incorrect Same as (B)

Answer: (D)