Although the baseball team practiced more diligently that year than

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Although the baseball team practiced more diligently that year than  their prior years , in the end it still lost the championship to the opposing team.

A) their prior years

B) they had in prior years

C) in prior years

D) they had for any prior years

E) in their prior years

generis · Answer

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PyjamaScientist · Answer

Basketball team is a collective noun and a collective noun almost always takes a singular pronoun. So, even purely on that basis you can eliminate choices A, B, D and E.  C  remains.

(C) is also correct because it uses correct comparison. Sentence without ellipsis would be:
Although the baseball team practiced more diligently that year than   the baseball team practiced   in their prior years, in the end it still lost the championship to the opposing team.

zhanbo · Answer

My answer is  (C) . It took me 31 seconds.

(A) "The baseball team" is singular. The use of "it still lost" further confirms it. 
"Their" does not have an appropriate precedent.

(BDE) can be eliminated for the same reason.

Usually a GMAT question contains more than one decision point. Did I miss anything? 
Spent an additional 10 seconds to feel confident to move on.

Tanvay · Answer

How come answer is C. Than follows parallelism there is no IN in earlier art of sentence then how come answer is C? I know they should not be there since baseball is team is singular but i believe that statements are wrong
Can someone please explain me this

ExpertsGlobal5 · Answer

Hello  Tanvay ,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, Option C "that" parallels "in"; here, "that" serves as a preposition rather than a pronoun, so it can parallel the preposition "in".

We hope this helps.
All the best!
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