Taking note of the success of local farmers’ markets, the university’s

Question

Taking note of the success of local farmers’ markets, the university’s food service providers  have transitioned into a locally-grown, sustainable operation .

A. have transitioned into a locally-grown, sustainable operation
B. have transitioned into sustainable, locally-grown operation
C. have transitioned into locally-grown, sustainable operations
D. are transitioned into sustainable, locally-grown operations
E. are transitioning into locally-grown, sustainable operation

toughmat · Answer

I picked C
we need to use operations as there are many service providers and they wont have a single operation.
have expresses the right tense

metallicafan · Answer

IMO, C.

In A, it seems that the providers have transtioned to the same operation.

DeeptiM · Answer

I somehow think it's A..

Whtz d OA?

gmatpunjabi · Answer

A This is the Answer Choice for me because it clearly expresses the meaning intended. 
B into sustainable is just awkward so elim.
C the plural operations changes the meaning of the sentence
D are transitioned. Simple Past does not work in this case
E are transitioning implies that the Transition is happening as we speak

Chembeti · Answer

when two adjectives need to be used to describe something, adjective that has more important/weightage should be near to the noun.

Here in our case, the business men are not interested whether it is locally grown or remotely grown. All they want to ensure is their strategy is sustainable. And hence B is not correct.

Chembeti · Answer

Where did you get the info that  the providers have transtioned to the same operation  from?

Chembeti · Answer

Need not be. For e.g., following two statements are correct:

Students with umbrella attended the class . --> if it is raining, ideally students will come to school with only one umbrella; this is what emphasized here.

Students with umbrellas attended the class . --> referring to all students

Chembeti · Answer

I don't reject usage of 'operations' because businesses have multiple operations. But, each operation has its own factors - either this operation affect something or gets affected by something else.

Now, the statement talks about only one factor and hence its reasonable to refer to the operation that it is affecting. and hence usage of 'operation' is also correct.

having said that, still 'operations' is also valid because, that one factor might be affecting many operations and this info is missing from the context.

because of this reason, i would reject the total statement as a valid GMAT question.

abhi47 · Answer

The correct answer is C. A is close but it should be operations rather than operation.

HuongShashi · Answer

Present perfect tense is preferable than simple tense. 
operations are compared to providers
So D is clear

sampriya · Answer

Roan4848 · Answer

Since operation is singular, as the markets have become one entity under operations.
Thus we cannot use "a" locally grown operations. 
Thus eliminate option A

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