Toward the end of that year, the food and beverage entrepreneur was lo

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Toward the end of that year, the food and beverage entrepreneur was looking for a partner -  someone not only who could provide expertise in developing talent pipelines, but sharing his passion as well to launch  a new product on the market.

A. someone not only who could provide expertise in developing talent pipelines, but sharing his passion as well to launch

B. someone who not only could provide expertise in developing talent pipelines, but also shared his passion to launch

C. someone who not only could provide expertise in developing talent pipelines, but also share his passion to launch

D. that being someone who not only could provide expertise in developing talent pipelines, but sharing his passion for launching

E. being someone who not only could provide expertise in developing talent pipelines, but share his passion as well, launching

JatinR · Answer

The answer should be "C".
Reasoning as below:

Toward the end of that year, the food and beverage entrepreneur was looking for a partner - someone not only who could provide expertise in developing talent pipelines, but sharing his passion as well to launch a new product on the market.

A. someone not only who could provide expertise in developing talent pipelines, but sharing his passion as well to launch
 not only...but also.... is missing  +  provide, sharing... different tenses

B. someone who not only could provide expertise in developing talent pipelines, but also shared his passion to launch
 abrupt change in tenses - provide, shared

C. someone who not only could provide expertise in developing talent pipelines, but also share his passion to launch
 no errors, all tenses look good

D. that being someone who not only could provide expertise in developing talent pipelines, but sharing his passion for launching
 provide, sharing - tense problem

E. being someone who not only could provide expertise in developing talent pipelines, but share his passion as well, launching 
 but and as well - redundant

Bunuel · Answer

OFFICIAL EXPLANATION:

Creating a filter: There are a few flags in this sentence. By "flags," we mean grammatical elements that may not be present in a sentence, but which we should immediately check when we see them. "Not only... but also..." is a two-part expression. For all two-part expressions, we should check that the wording is parallel, in a) the sequence of the words and b) the conjugation of the two things in the construction. Here, the verbs are not parallel: "Sharing" should be "share" to match "provide." The sentence could correctly read, "not only provide... but also share." We'll use that as our filter and go to the answer choices.

Applying the filter: our filter leaves us with only two choices, (C) and (E).

Finding objective defects: Choice (E) has other problems. It includes the word "being" unnecessarily at the beginning of the sentence. Gerunds of the verb "to be," such as "being," are often in error, especially when they can be omitted from the sentence. Also, where it says "launching" at the end of the phrase, it changes the meaning of the sentence. The imaginary author of this sentence is trying to talk about sharing a specific passion, a "passion to launch" something. We briefly confirm that the other answer choices are in error.

The correct answer is (C).

rocky620 · Answer

Bunuel  is the word "COULD" after BUT ONLY considered elliptic?

rakeshmishra5690 · Answer

In option B, Could is coming after not only. Shouldn't we have "could" after but also to maintain the parallelism?

GMATWhizTeam · Answer

Hi... Here are my thoughts on the given sentence: Ideally the sentence should be: Toward the end of that year, the food and beverage entrepreneur was looking for a partner - someone who could not only provide expertise in developing talent pipelines, but also share his passion to launch a new product on the market. Note the "could" taken as common before the "not only X but also Y" format In the absence of the common "could", when we break the correct sentence (fitting choice C in the sentence), we get: Toward the end of that year, the food and beverage entrepreneur was looking for a partner - someone who not only could provide expertise in developing talent pipelines, someone who but also share his passion to launch a new product on the market. Clearly, the missing "could" creates an error in parallelism as well as a subject verb agreement error ( someone who share ). IMHO the "could" should be taken as common. Hope this helps

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