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Targeted toward the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas feature attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities.


A. Targeted toward the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas feature attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities.

B. Targeted at the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas features attractive, bankable stars from both the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities.

C. Targeted at the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas features attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their abilities as actors.

D. Targeted to the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas feature attractive, bankable stars from both the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their abilities as actors.

E. Targeted to the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas features attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities.


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Re: Targeted toward the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television [#permalink] New post   29 May 2017, 09:06
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I don’t think this is a particularly difficult question, and if you’re doing it the right way, it’s a really quick and painless question. But there are some speedbumps here if you’re not focused on the right issues.

The semi-trap in this question: if you’re distracted by the idiom, you’re missing the point. In real life, I don’t know anybody – including any of my friends who are native English speakers and/or professional editors – who knows or cares whether the correct idiom is “targeted toward”, “targeted to”, “targeted at”, or “targeted on.” It’s a dumb thing for the GMAT to test, in my opinion. But the GMAT doesn't care what I think. :)

More importantly: if you see an idiom split and you’re not 100% sure what the right idiom is, look for other stuff. Sure, sometimes there’s no way to escape the idiom. But if they give you an opportunity to “work around” the idiom, please take it. (More on idioms -- and why they might not be worth studying -- in this article.)

And there’s another potential distraction here: the word “their” looks ambiguous, since it could refer to “industries” or “stars” – and since “industries” is the most recent plural noun, the pronoun doesn’t look ideal. But pronoun ambiguity isn’t ALWAYS wrong on the GMAT: click here for an old thread on this topic, click here for an official example of acceptable pronoun ambiguity -- and we also covered this issue in a YouTube video.

And in this situation, the pronoun is irrelevant, anyway: “their” appears in all five answer choices, in exactly the same place.

Bottom line: if you didn’t get sidetracked by the pronouns or idiom, you win.
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A. Targeted toward the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas feature attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities.

“Each” is singular, so “each… feature” is wrong. Plus, “both from… and modeling” is not parallel. We don’t even need to think about the idiom or the pronouns. Eliminate (A).

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B. Targeted at the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas features attractive, bankable stars from both the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities.

Both the parallelism and subject-verb agreement look good here. Let’s keep (B).

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C. Targeted at the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas features attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their abilities as actors.

Subject-verb is fine here, but the parallelism error is the same as in (A). We can still ignore the idiom and the pronouns. Eliminate (C).

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D. Targeted to the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas feature attractive, bankable stars from both the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their abilities as actors.

The parallelism is acceptable here, but “each… feature” doesn’t work. And we still have no reason to worry about the idiom. (D) is gone.

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E. Targeted to the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas features attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities.

Parallelism error again, so (E) is gone, and (B) is our winner.
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Re: Targeted toward the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television [#permalink] New post   29 May 2017, 09:25
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The subject of the main clause - each of the television network’s new scripted dramas --> is singular because of the presence of keyword - 'each'. So we need a singular verb - features.

Looking at the idiom, both X and Y - X and Y need to be parallel -

Targeted at - seems idiomatic as it conveys the meaning aptly - the intended audience

Analyzing each option: -




A. Targeted toward the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas feature attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities.
- Subject Verb agreement error and idiom error.

B. Targeted at the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas features attractive, bankable stars from both the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities.

Corrects both the errors from option A.


C. Targeted at the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas features attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their abilities as actors.

idiom error in C - from the music is not || to modelling industries

D. Targeted to the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas feature attractive, bankable stars from both the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their abilities as actors.

Subject- Verb agreement error


E. Targeted to the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas features attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities.

idiom error in C - from the music is not || to modelling industries



Choice B seems correct -
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Re: Targeted toward the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television [#permalink] New post   29 May 2017, 11:39
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A. Targeted toward the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas feature attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities. ---each of the is singular so verb should be features. Eliminate this option
B. Targeted at the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas features attractive, bankable stars from both the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities.--S-V are in agreement. Idiom Both-And is correct.
C. Targeted at the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas features attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their abilities as actors. --Sentence uses Both from X and Y. Idiom should be Both from X and from Y.
D. Targeted to the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas feature attractive, bankable stars from both the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their abilities as actors. --- Same as A. Eliminate this option.
E. Targeted to the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas features attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities.--- wrong usage of idiom. Sentence uses Both from X and Y. Idiom should be Both from X and from Y


I go for option B
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Re: Targeted toward the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television [#permalink] New post   20 Jun 2018, 01:59
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I don’t think this is a particularly difficult question, and if you’re doing it the right way, it’s a really quick and painless question. But there are some speedbumps here if you’re not focused on the right issues.

The semi-trap in this question: if you’re distracted by the idiom, you’re missing the point. In real life, I don’t know anybody – including any of my friends who are native English speakers and/or professional editors – who knows or cares whether the correct idiom is “targeted toward”, “targeted to”, “targeted at”, or “targeted on.” It’s a dumb thing for the GMAT to test, in my opinion. But the GMAT doesn't care what I think. :)

More importantly: if you see an idiom split and you’re not 100% sure what the right idiom is, look for other stuff. Sure, sometimes there’s no way to escape the idiom. But if they give you an opportunity to “work around” the idiom, please take it. (More on idioms -- and why they might not be worth studying -- in this article.)

And there’s another potential distraction here: the word “their” looks ambiguous, since it could refer to “industries” or “stars” – and since “industries” is the most recent plural noun, the pronoun doesn’t look ideal. But pronoun ambiguity isn’t ALWAYS wrong on the GMAT: click here for an old thread on this topic, click here for an official example of acceptable pronoun ambiguity -- and we also covered this issue in a YouTube video.

And in this situation, the pronoun is irrelevant, anyway: “their” appears in all five answer choices, in exactly the same place.

Bottom line: if you didn’t get sidetracked by the pronouns or idiom, you win.
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A. Targeted toward the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas feature attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities.

“Each” is singular, so “each… feature” is wrong. Plus, “both from… and modeling” is not parallel. We don’t even need to think about the idiom or the pronouns. Eliminate (A).

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B. Targeted at the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas features attractive, bankable stars from both the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities.

Both the parallelism and subject-verb agreement look good here. Let’s keep (B).

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C. Targeted at the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas features attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their abilities as actors.

Subject-verb is fine here, but the parallelism error is the same as in (A). We can still ignore the idiom and the pronouns. Eliminate (C).

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D. Targeted to the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas feature attractive, bankable stars from both the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their abilities as actors.

The parallelism is acceptable here, but “each… feature” doesn’t work. And we still have no reason to worry about the idiom. (D) is gone.

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E. Targeted to the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas features attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities.

Parallelism error again, so (E) is gone, and (B) is our winner.


Hi GMATNinja

I have one small query.
Can you please enlightened me that -> what is their in the line "known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities" is pointing to?
although every option is same in this aspect, but just for my clarity i would like to know why we don't have an ambiguity as their can point to starts as well as industries........
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Re: Targeted toward the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television [#permalink] New post   23 Jun 2018, 12:44
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I have one small query.
Can you please enlightened me that -> what is their in the line "known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities" is pointing to?
although every option is same in this aspect, but just for my clarity i would like to know why we don't have an ambiguity as their can point to starts as well as industries........

The important thing to keep in mind is that pronoun ambiguity isn't an absolute rule on the GMAT. (More on that in this video.) Sure, if the ONLY difference between two answer choices is that one has an ambiguous pronoun and the other does not, then you'd obviously prefer the answer choice without pronoun ambiguity. But in plenty of official questions, the correct answer might technically have some pronoun ambiguity -- it's just that the other answer choices would have WORSE errors in that scenario.

In this particular question, the pronouns are the same in all answer choices, so they're an absolute non-issue.

I hope this helps!
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Re: Targeted toward the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television [#permalink] New post   27 Jun 2018, 07:31
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'Their' is no issue at all about ambiguity between the stars and industries since we expect neither good looks nor acting abilities from the industries.
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Re: Targeted toward the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television [#permalink] New post   28 Jun 2018, 06:47
Targeted toward the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas feature attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities.

A. Targeted toward the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas feature attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities.
B. Targeted at the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas features attractive, bankable stars from both the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities. --> correct
C. Targeted at the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas features attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their abilities as actors.
D. Targeted to the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas feature attractive, bankable stars from both the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their abilities as actors.
E. Targeted to the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas features attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities.
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Targeted toward the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television [#permalink] New post   06 Dec 2019, 09:19
first understanding the meaning of the sentence..while going through found the SV flaw..

finding out the SV agreement flaw..
options A and D are gone..

looking into B,C and E.

the major difference we found is parallelism error.
should be "from both A and B" or "both from A and from B"
so C and E are ruled out..

B is the choice
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Re: Targeted toward the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television [#permalink] New post   04 Jul 2020, 19:42
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Meaning wise - keeping aside the parallelism error

"..stars both from the music and modeling industries.."

doesn't it mean that -> both the stars are from the mentioned industries?
(also implying that we are talking about two stars)

whereas,
"stars from both the music and modeling industries"
is more clear in terms of saying that the drama features stars from both the industries.

Is this interpretation correct? Isn't there a slight difference in the meaning?
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GMATNinja daagh souvik101990

Meaning wise - keeping aside the parallelism error

"..stars both from the music and modeling industries.."

doesn't it mean that -> both the stars are from the mentioned industries?
(also implying that we are talking about two stars)

whereas,
"stars from both the music and modeling industries"
is more clear in terms of saying that the drama features stars from both the industries.

Is this interpretation correct? Isn't there a slight difference in the meaning?

Yes, the phrase "stars both from the music and modeling industries" could imply that we are talking about two stars, both of whom are from the music and modeling industries (though you'd probably want to put a comma before the "both" to make that interpretation more clear).

As you said, "stars from both the music and modeling industries" makes more sense in this case, because it clearly implies that the drama features stars from both industries.
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Re: Targeted toward the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television [#permalink] New post   07 Sep 2021, 09:40
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Between attractive and bankable "and" should be used right as both are representing stars

Kindly explain

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Targeted toward the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas feature attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities.


A. Targeted toward the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas feature attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities. - each conveys singular noun, so feature must be features

B. Targeted at the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas features attractive, bankable stars from both the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities.

C. Targeted at the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas features attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their abilities as actors. - Parallelism issue: both from X and from Y

D. Targeted to the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas feature attractive, bankable stars from both the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their abilities as actors. - each conveys singular noun, so feature must be features

E. Targeted to the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas features attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities. - Parallelism issue: both from X and from Y

IMO B
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Between attractive and bankable "and" should be used right as both are representing stars

Kindly explain

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The "and" is not strictly required, and it's perfectly fine to separate the two adjectives with only a comma in this case.

When "and" IS used, you of course want to carefully check the parallelism. But the GMAT is fairly lenient when it comes to comma usage, so it's best to be conservative and look for better decision points.

For an example of an OA that omits the "and" in a parallel list, check out this question (and our ensuing explanation).

I hope that helps!
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Re: Targeted toward the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television [#permalink] New post   18 Sep 2021, 09:56
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Greetings!

In this question, I want to know what is the role of "known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities"

Is this acting as a modifier? What part of a sentence is this? What is the role of the comma before known? Here clearly it looks like "known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities" is providing more information about the actors. But I want to know if this Is working in a similar way as the ", + ing" modifier which modifies the entire clause. How do I make sure that the modifier is modifying just the object and not the entire clause?

Also, another thing I want to know is how to train myself to spot just the right things to solve the sentence correction questions. When I read your explanations it looks like these are most of the things I have already learned but that's not what is my default way of solving? How do I train myself to spot just the right things
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Greetings!

In this question, I want to know what is the role of "known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities"

Is this acting as a modifier? What part of a sentence is this? What is the role of the comma before known? Here clearly it looks like "known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities" is providing more information about the actors. But I want to know if this Is working in a similar way as the ", + ing" modifier which modifies the entire clause. How do I make sure that the modifier is modifying just the object and not the entire clause?


You understood this perfectly. "Known more for their good looks..." is describing the "stars." The comma is simply telling the reader that this information isn't crucial to the meaning of the sentence. It's more of an aside.

The more challenging question is: how do we know this? First, while you're right that "-ing" modifiers tend to describe the entire clause when they follow a comma and a clause, other modifiers don't have to operate that way. After all, a person is more likely to be "known" than an action.

Also, if you catch the possessive pronoun "their" you'll see that this modifier pretty much has to be describing the referent for that pronoun. So context tells us what the modifier is doing.

Last, all of the answer choices have "known for..." in the same place in the sentence, so even if you had doubts about the modifier, you know it can't possibly be wrong!

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This is a big question. First, know that there aren't necessarily "right" things to spot in a sentence. Any given sentence could have multiple elements that are incorrect or worth analyzing. The "right" one is sometimes simply the one you notice and feel confident about.

But as you probably know by now, there are classic triggers you should recognize whenever you see them, since they appear frequently on SC questions. It might be worth checking out our SC for beginners and our video series to see how we tend to think about setting priorities on SC.

I hope that helps a bit!
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Re: Targeted toward the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television [#permalink] New post   22 Sep 2021, 11:08
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Targeted toward the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas feature attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities.



A. Targeted toward the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas feature attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities.
Toward would have been more accurate usage of idiom therefore out

B. Targeted at the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas features attractive, bankable stars from both the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities.
The idiomatic usage and meaning is perfect therefore let us hang on to it

C. Targeted at the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas features attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their abilities as actors.
as actors in the end isn't required since the comparison is perfect without it

D. Targeted to the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas feature attractive, bankable stars from both the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their abilities as actors.
Similar reasoning as C

E. Targeted to the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television network’s new scripted dramas features attractive, bankable stars both from the music and modeling industries, known more for their good looks than for their acting abilities.
idiomatic usage of at is far better therefore out

Therefore IMO B
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Re: Targeted toward the crucial 18-49 demographic, each of the television [#permalink] New post   13 Dec 2021, 07:32
"A missile might be targeted at the enemy, but marketing campaigns are generally targeted to certain groups of consumers."

Here the group is identified as single demographic point (possibly on a graph). Looks like only B and C remains with this logic.

correct me if I am wrong.
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