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Most adolescents stuggle to be free both of parental domination but also from peer pressure.
(A) both of parental domination but also from peer pressure
(B) both of parental domination and also from peer pressure
(C) both of parental domination and also of peer pressure
(D) both of parental domination and of peer pressure as well
(E) of parental domination and their peer pressure as well



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I would eliminate A, B and E for lack of parallelism.
It narrows down to C and D.
I would go with D.

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I think I identified my mistake. it would be C. "as well " is weird.
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Hmmm I think it's E. The others contains "both ... and", and "also" or "as well", seems repetitive to me?
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HongHo ..I may be wrong ...but in (E) "their" is not so clear as to whom it is pointing to.
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OA is (D)
Some explaination please?
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OA is (D)
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Isn't And and as well redundant in choice D? Am i ever gonna be ready for this test? :cry:
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HongHo ..I may be wrong ...but in (E) "their" is not so clear as to whom it is pointing to.
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Yes, you are right. Thanks! :)
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It has to be E,
pronoun their refers to logical previous noun since adding their to parental domination doesn't make sense in this case it refers to the subject adolescents.

D has a wrong construction with redundant aswell

what is the source of this question?
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Most adolescents stuggle to be free both of parental domination but also from peer pressure.
(A) both of parental domination but also from peer pressure
(B) both of parental domination and also from peer pressure
(C) both of parental domination and also of peer pressure
(D) both of parental domination and of peer pressure as well
(E) of parental domination and their peer pressure as well
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The ans. is D. I arrived at this from elimination. My tots:

(A) Just can't be this one.
(B) the 'also' is (very) redundant. ...both of <this> and of <this> (correct parallelism)
(C) same reason as B
(D) my choice
(E) 'their' is not explicitly defined. could mean adolescents or the parents that actually do the domination.
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Narrowed down to C & D, but both options have a redundant usage of "also" and "as well" respectively.

Let's examine the sentence and restructure it a bit:

Most adolescents stuggle to be free ... - ok that's given. Free of what? The underlined part starts off with "both" - which makes us expect two entities which adolescents want their freedom from.

(C) - ... free both of X and also of Y

(D) - ... free both of X and of Y as well.

I must admit I can't argue on the validity of one statement over the other, but (D) presents both entities in succession and uses "as well" to establish the relationship laid down by "both".

Let us take another example:

1 - I want an admit both from XBS and also from YBS.

2 - I want an admit both from XBS and from YBS as well.

IMO, the "also" in (1) renders the usage of "both" redundant. Statement (1) could well have been stated as: "I want an admit from XBS and also from YBS" - no need to use "both".

Whereas, if we do use "both", the second statement sounds more appropriate.

I guess this was a classic ETS example of chosing from the lesser evil.
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This question comes from Combridge Review, but I also found it in Arco Master the GMAT. I made mistake both time even though I knew I did the question before. There is something weird about this question. I hope this one is not GMAT standard type of question.



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