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Can you please elaborate you explaination??

How B is run on sentence ? "He is very lazy " -> this has a subject and a verb . Secondly, short predicate is allowed between modifier and subject.

I don't this there is much difference between A and C .

Thanks. I have corrected my explanation for option B. A has parallelism error and is more wordy than C. So, C is preferred.
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Hi..Is Option A wrong because of parallelism error?? because after "and" possessive form is used.
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Although he is as brilliant as, if not more brilliant than, many of his fellow students, he is very lazy and his thesis will be unfinished.

(A) Although he is as brilliant as, if not more brilliant than, many of his fellow students, he is very lazy and his thesis will be unfinished.
(B) Although he is as brilliant as, if not more brilliant than, many of his fellow students, he is very lazy with his thesis remaining unfinished.
(C) Although he is as brilliant as, if not more brilliant than, many of his fellow students, he is very lazy and will not finish his thesis.
(D) Despite his being brilliant as, if not more brilliant than his fellow students, he is very lazy and will not finish his thesis.
(E) Being as brilliant as, or more brilliant than, many of his fellow students, he is very lazy and his thesis will be unfinished.

Although he is as brilliant as, if not more brilliant than, many of his fellow students, he is very lazy and will not finish his thesis.

Correct answer must be (C) for the highlighted errors in the other options...
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Although he is as brilliant as, if not more brilliant than, many of his fellow students, he is very lazy and his thesis will be unfinished.


(A) Although he is as brilliant as, if not more brilliant than, many of his fellow students, he is very lazy and his thesis will be unfinished.

(B) Although he is as brilliant as, if not more brilliant than, many of his fellow students, he is very lazy with his thesis remaining unfinished.

(C) Although he is as brilliant as, if not more brilliant than, many of his fellow students, he is very lazy and will not finish his thesis.

(D) Despite his being brilliant as, if not more brilliant than his fellow students, he is very lazy and will not finish his thesis.

(E) Being as brilliant as, or more brilliant than, many of his fellow students, he is very lazy and his thesis will be unfinished.


MANHATTAN REVIEW OFFICIAL EXPLANATION:



Choice E does not demonstrate the contrast in the original sentence because it does not use ‘although’ or a similar conjunction. Choice D is an incomplete comparison as it eliminates the necessary first ‘as’ from the phrase ‘as brilliant as’. However, choices A, B and C don’t particularly have errors of grammar or efficiency. However, stating that something will not be finished or that it is remaining unfinished does not make the necessary logical connection that he and he alone is responsible for the unfinished state of his thesis. Remember that active voice is preferred in the GMAT over the passive voice. C is the correct answer as it uses the active voice.
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