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The price of a bushel of corn has fallen so drastically that some farmers have found it to be more cost effective to destroy their crops as to make the effort to get them to market.
A) have found it to be more cost effective to destroy their crops as to make
B) found that the destruction of their crops is more cost effective than making
C) find the destruction of their crops as more cost effective than making
D) find it more cost effective to destroy their crops than to make
E) are finding that the destruction of their crops is more cost effective than the making of
A) have found it to be more cost effective to destroy their crops as to make
B) found that the destruction of their crops is more cost effective than making
C) find the destruction of their crops as more cost effective than making
D) find it more cost effective to destroy their crops than to make
E) are finding that the destruction of their crops is more cost effective than the making of
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mikemcgarry : Hey Mike, I was wondering whether you would have some time to answer this. Can you please throw some light on why answer choice E is wrong. I read one of your posts on progressive tense and understand that this particular verb form is used when something is happening right at this very moment. So is Choice E wrong because there is a sudden tense shift from past to present continuous(Has fallen to are finding).
Also, I was doubting that D is correct because it had this vague and ugly "It". I know this It is just a placeholder and not the typical It we use for pronoun reference. But this type of construction is often seen on gmat questions- are there any blogs or thoughts around how this particular It construction works. Let me know if this is really relevant from a GMAT perspective.
Many Thanks for all your help.
Also, I was doubting that D is correct because it had this vague and ugly "It". I know this It is just a placeholder and not the typical It we use for pronoun reference. But this type of construction is often seen on gmat questions- are there any blogs or thoughts around how this particular It construction works. Let me know if this is really relevant from a GMAT perspective.
Many Thanks for all your help.
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mikemcgarry : Hey Mike, I was wondering whether you would have some time to answer this. Can you please throw some light on why answer choice E is wrong. I read one of your posts on progressive tense and understand that this particular verb form is used when something is happening right at this very moment. So is Choice E wrong because there is a sudden tense shift from past to present continuous(Has fallen to are finding).
Also, I was doubting that D is correct because it had this vague and ugly "It". I know this It is just a placeholder and not the typical It we use for pronoun reference. But this type of construction is often seen on gmat questions- are there any blogs or thoughts around how this particular It construction works. Let me know if this is really relevant from a GMAT perspective.
Many Thanks for all your help.
Dear [url]bkpolymers1617[/url], Also, I was doubting that D is correct because it had this vague and ugly "It". I know this It is just a placeholder and not the typical It we use for pronoun reference. But this type of construction is often seen on gmat questions- are there any blogs or thoughts around how this particular It construction works. Let me know if this is really relevant from a GMAT perspective.
Many Thanks for all your help.
I'm happy to respond.
First of all, there are several problems with (E).
1) the shift to the present progressive is a bit unusual, but that's not reason to disqualify this answer
2) poor parallelism. Every comparison contains implicit parallelism. What are we comparing in (D): "the destruction" to "the making of." Awkward.
3) The complex gerund at the end—"the making of the effort to get them to market"—is atrocious! No native speaker would ever put this combination of words together. This is 100% unnatural.
4) We are trying to compare two actions. Verbs and verb forms, such as the infinitive, are the most powerful way to express actions. We alway run into trouble when we try to put actions into noun forms.
By contrast, (D) is concise and elegant. It is 100% correct. It frames the actions as infinitives and correctly compares to infinitive in parallel. The "it" is also correct: this is a structure that regularly blows the minds of non-native speakers, especially non-native speakers who have an excessively rule-based understandings of grammar. This is called the "empty it." I discuss it in this blog article:
The Empty ‘It’ on the GMAT Sentence Correction
Does this make sense?
Mike
