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When studying for the GMAT, one should remember that one's analytical ability means succeeding.


(A) one's analytical ability means succeeding

(B) one's analytical ability means to succeed

(C) one's analytical ability means their success

(D) their analytical ability means success

(E) one's analytical ability means one's success
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Re: When studying for the GMAT, one should remember that one's analytical [#permalink] New post   14 Oct 2021, 01:15
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When studying for the GMAT, one should remember that one's analytical ability means succeeding.


(A) one's analytical ability means succeeding

Incorrect.

This answer choice is grammatically incorrect due to a parallelism error. What helps us identify this kind of Parallelism error and correct it is the following Stop Sign: A is/means B

Whenever you come across a sentence containing this structure, make sure that:

(A) A and B are grammatically parallel (i.e., of the same part of speech).

(B) A and B are logically parallel.

In this answer choice, A is a noun (ability) whereas B is a verb (succeeding).


(B) one's analytical ability means to succeed

Incorrect.

This answer choice is grammatically incorrect due to a parallelism error, and repeats the original mistake. What helps us identify this kind of Parallelism error and correct it is the following Stop Sign: A is/means B

In this answer choice, A is a noun (ability) whereas B is a verb (to succeed).


(C) one's analytical ability means their success

Incorrect.

Although this answer choice corrects the original Parallelism error by changing the verb succeeding to its noun form success so that it is parallel with the noun ability, it is still grammatically incorrect: the pronoun their refers to one but does not agree with it as one is singular and their is plural.

The pronoun one agrees with itself only.

What helps us identify this question as a Pronoun question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign: Every pronoun in the underlined part of the sentence or after it


(D) their analytical ability means success

Incorrect.

Although this answer choice corrects the original Parallelism error by changing the verb succeeding to its noun form success so that it is parallel with the noun ability, it is still grammatically incorrect: the pronoun their refers to one but does not agree with it as one is singular and their is plural.

The pronoun one agrees with itself only.

What helps us identify this question as a Pronoun question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign: Every pronoun in the underlined part of the sentence or after it


(E) one's analytical ability means one's success

This answer choice corrects the original Parallelism error, by using the noun ability with the noun success, according to the Stop Sign: A is/means B
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Re: When studying for the GMAT, one should remember that one's analytical [#permalink] New post   13 Oct 2021, 01:56
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My answer is (E). It took me 31 seconds.

(A) For better parallelism with a noun (ability), prefer a noun (success) to a gerund (succeeding).
(B) For better parallelism with a noun (ability), prefer a noun (success) to an infinitive (to succeed).
(C) "their" does not agree with "one".
(D) See above
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Re: When studying for the GMAT, one should remember that one's analytical [#permalink] New post   13 Oct 2021, 02:02
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One.............one's , Only (E) is correct !!!
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Re: When studying for the GMAT, one should remember that one's analytical [#permalink] New post   13 Oct 2021, 06:02
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When studying for the GMAT, one should remember that one's analytical ability means succeeding.


(A) one's analytical ability means succeeding - Parallelism error. Ability as a noun is not parallel with succeeding.

(B) one's analytical ability means to succeed - Same error as A. Ability is not parallel with 'to succeed'.

(C) one's analytical ability means their success - Incorrect usage of their.

(D) their analytical ability means success- Incorrect usage of their.

(E) one's analytical ability means one's success- Correct. Corrects the parallelism error. Ability is parallel with success.

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Re: When studying for the GMAT, one should remember that one's analytical [#permalink] New post   13 Oct 2021, 06:42
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Correct Option E

(A) When studying for the GMAT,
one should remember that
one's analytical ability means
succeeding.
Flaw:
- one's ability not parallel to succeeding
- succeeding has no Subject.

(B) When studying for the GMAT,
one should remember that
one's analytical ability means
to succeed
Flaw :
- one's ability not parallel to succeed
- succeed has no Subject.

When studying for the GMAT,
one should remember that
one's analytical ability means
their success
Flaw:
- success has plural pronoun.

When studying for the GMAT,
one should remember that
their analytical ability means
success
Flaw:
- their pronoun creates ambiguity

When studying for the GMAT,
one should remember that
one's analytical ability means
one's success
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Re: When studying for the GMAT, one should remember that one's analytical [#permalink] New post   13 Oct 2021, 07:57
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When studying for the GMAT, one should remember that one's analytical ability means succeeding.

IMO E

(A) one's analytical ability means succeeding
[Why to use gerund in place of an noun object?]
(B) one's analytical ability means to succeed
[No subject is directly performing the action of succeeding]
(C) one's analytical ability means their success
[One's - Singular; their is wrongly used]
(D) their analytical ability means success
[One's - Singular; their is wrongly used]
(E) one's analytical ability means one's success [Correct]
[General statement needs a standard noun (one's success) instead of the gerund (succeeding)]
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Re: When studying for the GMAT, one should remember that one's analytical [#permalink] New post   13 Oct 2021, 11:02
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When studying for the GMAT, one should remember that one's analytical ability means succeeding.


(A) one's analytical ability means succeeding
succeeding is present continuous verb and not parallel with Ability, which is noun. Eliminate

(B) one's analytical ability means to succeed
'to succeed' modifying the verb means (affinitive) and not parallel to one's ability. Eliminate.

(C) one's analytical ability means their success
Subject one is singular. Using pronoun their is incorrect as it is referring to plural subject. Eliminate

(D) their analytical ability means success
Subject one is singular. Using pronoun their is incorrect as it is referring to plural subject. Eliminate

(E) one's analytical ability means one's success
This correctly maintains the parallel between one's ability & one's success and agrees with the subject one.
Hence E is the best answer choice.
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