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Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in [#permalink] New post   28 Jun 2017, 07:57
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Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, Native American women of the Plains tribes often received public recognition, wealth, and prestige for their craftwork


(A) Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, Native American women of the Plains tribes

(B) Unlike many women settlers in the nineteenthcentury American West, whose craftwork was accorded low status, Native American women of the Plains tribes

(C) Native American women of the Plains tribes, unlike the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West,

(D) The craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West was accorded low status, while that of the Native American women of the Plains tribes

(E) While low status was accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, that of Native American women of the Plains tribes
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Re: Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in [#permalink] New post   27 Sep 2017, 03:16
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Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, Native American women of the Plains tribes often received public recognition,wealth, and prestige for their craftwork.


What an amazing question emphasize the importance of a couple points while solving GMAT C porblems:

i. read the original sentence very carefully
ii. consider the non-underlined portion of the sentence as well while selecting the correct answer choice

At e-GMAT, we keep harping on the first point, that is, to spend a good amount of time with the original sentence to understand what the author intends to convey.

The given official sentence presents comparison. Hence, it becomes imperative that we identify the intended comparison in the sentence.

The sentence says that the craftwork of a particular group of women was not appreciated very much. However, another group of women got name, fame, and money for their craftwork.

If we carefully study the structure of the sentence, it won't take us too long to understand that the non-underlined portion of the sentence defines the entities that are meant to be compared in the sentence.

The non-underlined portion reads often received x, y, and z for their craftwork. This makes it clear that the subject of the verb received must be Native American women of the Plains tribes.

Hence, the sentence intends to compare the two group of women in this sentence. Comparison between any other entities will be erroneous.

Choice B is the only answer choice to present the intended comparison between the two groups of women and hence stands correct.


Now Choice D is another answer choice that does not seem to have any grammatical or logical issue if we only concentrate on the text of this choice. However, putting this choice together with the rest of the sentence will make it clear that per the context of the sentence the women got x,y, and z for their craftwork. The craftwork did not get those for their craftwork.

Hence, a quick look at the non-underlined portion of the sentence while selecting the correct answer can definitely save us a critical error.


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Re: Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in [#permalink] New post   28 Jun 2017, 09:27
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Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, Native American women of the Plains tribes often received public recognition, wealth, and prestige for their craftwork
(A) Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, Native American women of the Plains tribes
Unlike low status (NOUN1) MODIFIER...., NOUN2. Though grammatical parallelism is maintained, logical is absent. How can one compare a STATUS with a WOMEN....
Hence Incorrect
(B) Unlike many women settlers in the nineteenthcentury American West, whose craftwork was accorded low status, Native American women of the Plains tribes
CORRECT
(C) Native American women of the Plains tribes, unlike the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West,
Incorrect comparison of Native American with CRAFTWORK
(D) The craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West was accorded low status, while that of the Native American women of the Plains tribes
CRAFTWORK doesn't make any sense with THIER In not underlined portion
(E) While low status was accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, that of Native American women of the Plains tribes
CRAFTWORK doesn't make any sense with THIER In not underlined portion
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Re: Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in [#permalink] New post   17 Aug 2020, 12:34
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Can anyone justify the place placement of "Whose " in option B? I know that which can have an exception if it doesnt have a appropriate noun before it , but does that apply to whose too?
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Re: Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in [#permalink] New post   28 Jun 2017, 08:23
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The sentence is trying to compare situations of two groups of women.

Error: The original sentence has 'comparison' error.

Option A (incorrect): Unlike the low status,....Native American women.... (incorrectly compares status with women).
Option B (CORRECT): Corrects the comparison error and places modifier appropriately.
Option C (incorrect): Native American women, unlike the craftwork (Same error as option A)
Option D (incorrect): Changes the subject of the sentence and is unnecessarily wordy. Moreover, the pronoun 'that' does not clearly have a single unambiguous antecedent.
Option E (incorrect): Wrong usage of 'while....that of...'
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Re: Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in [#permalink] New post   26 Sep 2017, 04:47
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Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-centuryAmerican West, Native American women of the Plains tribes s often received public recognition,wealth, and prestige for their craftwork.

We need to make sure that we are comparing the correct entities when comparison sentences are given.

(A) Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, Native American women of the Plains tribes
=> Comparing status vs NA women - so wrong.
(B) Unlike many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, whose craftwork was accorded low status, Native American women of the Plains tribes
=> Women vs women - correct.
(C) Native American women of the Plains tribes, unlike the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West,
=> Women vs craftwork => wrong
(D) The craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West was accorded low status, while that of the Native American women of the Plains tribes => No proper comparison.
(E) While low status was accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, that of Native American women of the Plains tribes => Meaning error and lacking proper comparison as desired.
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Re: Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in [#permalink] New post   01 Oct 2017, 00:13
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Can someone explain why D is wrong? As per breakup below it does have the right pronouns and the meaning.
The craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West was accorded low status (SINGULAR + refers to right subject), while that of the (appears to refer to craftwork of AWwomen) Native American women of the Plains tribes often received x,y and Z.

Would love to understand the error in my understanding above


The craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West was accorded low status, while that of the Native American women of the Plains tribes often received public recognition, wealth, and prestige for their craftwork.

The non underlined part uses 'their', it cannot refer to 'craftwork', it has to refer to plural 'women'.
I dont think there is anything grammatically wrong with D.
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Re: Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in [#permalink] New post   01 Jul 2017, 08:22
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Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, Native American women of the Plains tribes often received public recognition, wealth, and prestige for their craftwork

(A) Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, Native American women of the Plains tribes
(B) Unlike many women settlers in the nineteenthcentury American West, whose craftwork was accorded low status, Native American women of the Plains tribes
(C) Native American women of the Plains tribes, unlike the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West,
(D) The craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West was accorded low status, while that of the Native American women of the Plains tribes
(E) While low status was accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, that of Native American women of the Plains tribes


Correct Idiomatic usage is : Unlike X ,Y

Among the given options only (B) uses the same correctly...
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Re: Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in [#permalink] New post   30 Sep 2017, 13:22
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Can someone explain why D is wrong? As per breakup below it does have the right pronouns and the meaning.
The craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West was accorded low status (SINGULAR + refers to right subject), while that of the (appears to refer to craftwork of AWwomen) Native American women of the Plains tribes often received x,y and Z.

Would love to understand the error in my understanding above
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Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in [#permalink] New post   06 Jun 2019, 22:08
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Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, Native American women of the Plains tribes often received public recognition, wealth, and prestige for their craftwork


(A) Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, Native American women of the Plains tribes

(B) Unlike many women settlers in the nineteenthcentury American West, whose craftwork was accorded low status, Native American women of the Plains tribes

(C) Native American women of the Plains tribes, unlike the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West,

(D) The craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West was accorded low status, while that of the Native American women of the Plains tribes

(E) While low status was accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, that of Native American women of the Plains tribes


Option A is wrong because "low status" is being compared with "Native American women". So the comparison is wrong here.

Option B is correct . It compares "women settlers" with "Native American women".

Option C is wrong because "Native American women" is being compared with " the craftwork".

Option D is wrong because "that of " in ".....while that of the Native American women of the Plains tribes........" refers to "the craftwork".
So the sentence reads " .......the craftwork of the Native American women of the Plains tribes often received public recognition, wealth, and prestige for their craftwork.......... ". This is logically wrong.
The "craftwork" can not receive "public recognition, wealth, and prestige for their craftwork".
Also the first part of the sentence ( ".........The craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West was accorded low status,......") is in passive and the second part is in active .
So the parallelism error also creeps in. Hence option D is wrong. Similar error is there in option E.

Option E is wrong because "that of" in "........that of Native American women of the Plains tribes..." refers to "low status".
"low status" can not receive "public recognition, wealth, and prestige for their craftwork". This is logically wrong.

Option B is the correct answer.
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Re: Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in [#permalink] New post   01 Jul 2017, 06:40
In a haste, I thought that using "craftwork" twice would make the answer option B redundant and marked the answer option C; while marking answer option C did not check the error that got introduced because of incorrect comparison. Silly mistake.

Any suggestion, how to avoid such silly mistakes?

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Re: Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in [#permalink] New post   Updated on: 26 Sep 2017, 07:47
Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, Native American women of the Plains tribes often received public recognition, wealth, and prestige for their craft work.

(A) Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, Native American women of the Plains tribes
(B) Unlike many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, whose craftwork was accorded low status, Native American women of the Plains tribes
(C) Native American women of the Plains tribes, unlike the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West,
(D) The craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West was accorded low status, while that of the Native American women of the Plains tribes
(E) While low status was accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, that of Native American women of the Plains tribes

Originally posted by Ravindra.here on 26 Sep 2017, 03:53.
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Re: Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in [#permalink] New post   27 Sep 2017, 02:00
Proper comparision should be done,,,

Here the problem compares a group of women with another women...

ans B
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Re: Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in [#permalink] New post   01 Oct 2017, 01:28
aurobindomahanty wrote:
Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, Native American women of the Plains tribes often received public recognition, wealth, and prestige for their craftwork

(A) Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, Native American women of the Plains tribes
(B) Unlike many women settlers in the nineteenthcentury American West, whose craftwork was accorded low status, Native American women of the Plains tribes
(C) Native American women of the Plains tribes, unlike the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West,
(D) The craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West was accorded low status, while that of the Native American women of the Plains tribes
(E) While low status was accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, that of Native American women of the Plains tribes



the sentence is trying to cmpare ,,,and proper comparison is done in option B
IMO B
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Re: Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in [#permalink] New post   02 Oct 2017, 10:40
aurobindomahanty wrote:
Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, Native American women of the Plains tribes often received public recognition, wealth, and prestige for their craftwork

(A) Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, Native American women of the Plains tribes
(B) Unlike many women settlers in the nineteenthcentury American West, whose craftwork was accorded low status, Native American women of the Plains tribes
(C) Native American women of the Plains tribes, unlike the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West,
(D) The craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West was accorded low status, while that of the Native American women of the Plains tribes
(E) While low status was accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, that of Native American women of the Plains tribes


The answer is B
Split 1
There is a comparison error in original sentence i.e women are compared to the low status .

Split 2
Notice the non underlined part of the sentence "often received public recognition, wealth, and prestige for their craftwork" their should have a logical antecedent it should refer to Native American women
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Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in [#permalink] New post   08 Sep 2020, 04:17
Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, Native American women of the Plains tribes often received public recognition, wealth, and prestige for their craftwork

Meaning Analysis: the women settlers in West America made craftwork that did not receive much respect and attention. But, the women settlers of the Plains tribes, who also made craftwork, were given public recognition and more.

Sentence Structure:
Unlike (Comparison marker)
the low status (element 1 of comparison marker)
accorded the craftwork (modifier modifying "low status")
of many women settlers (modifier modifying "craftwork")
in the nineteenth-century American West (modifier modifying "women settlers")
Native American women (element 2 of comparison) (Subject)
of the Plains tribes (prepositional phrase modifying "Native American women")
often received (received - Verb ; often - adverb modifying verb "received")
public recognition, wealth, and prestige (object of the sentence) (and - parallelism marker ; here all the three parallel elements are nouns)
for their craftwork (additional information about the parallel elements)

(A) Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, Native American women of the Plains tribes. Incorrect. We cannot compare "craftwork" to "Native Americans"

(B) Unlike many women settlers in the nineteenthcentury American West, whose craftwork was accorded low status, Native American women of the Plains tribes. Correct.

(C) Native American women of the Plains tribes, unlike the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, Incorrect. Same as (A)

(D) The craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West was accorded low status, while that of the Native American women of the Plains tribes. Incorrect. "That" refers to craftwork" but if you read the non underlined part of the sentence you will notice the phrase "for their craftwork".So now the sentence reads "the craft work of Native American women.... often receive public recognition.... for their craftwork" Clearly this is illegal

(E) While low status was accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in the nineteenth-century American West, that of Native American women of the Plains tribes. Incorrect. Same as (D)

Correct Choice: (B)
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Re: Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in [#permalink] New post   26 Jul 2023, 10:30
Could anyone specify why the "whose" in option b doesn't modify the noun before (i.e. 19th Century American West)?

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Re: Unlike the low status accorded the craftwork of many women settlers in [#permalink] New post   04 Aug 2023, 08:27
I have the same issue. I rejected seeing .whose. wrongly modifying in B. Can anyone shed some light?
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