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The use by many highly rated restaurants of "sea-legs", a mix of different kinds of whitefish, in place of actual crab meat, could indicate a trend towards saving money by making other food substitutions and lessening the spending on high-quality ingredients.
A) lessening the spending
B) the lessening spending
C) spending less
D) the spending lessened
E) the spending lessening
A) lessening the spending
B) the lessening spending
C) spending less
D) the spending lessened
E) the spending lessening
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This is a fairly straightforward question for which the right answer should be C. It is however, a pretty good example of the anatomy of a lot of SC questions on the GMAT. Many SC questions contain these two elements:
1. Two "Flash-points" - There are often two particularly important sections of the underlined portion, on which options tend to differ. Correctly identifying these "Flash-points" will give you the ammo you need to eliminate all but the right answer.
2. One right, One trap, Three bad - This applies even to many of the harder questions. There's usually just one or at most two other answers that could even potentially be considered. It's best to get rid of the bad options first.
Let's look at the question now. It indicates that the high-end restaurants are trying to save money by making.... This suggests the need for parallelism, so what follows after 'and' should be another verb. Hence, we can immediately eliminate Options B, D, E
The toss up is now between "lessening the spending" and "spending less". You could at this point just say that C is more concise and therefore better, and it would work for this easier question. There is, however, a specific reason why A is incorrect. If we say "lessening", it should be "lessening a <noun>", and the noun form of spend is expenditure. Hence, the right answer here is C
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