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by changed_now
Wed Aug 12, 2009 5:20 pm
 
Forum: General Verbal Questions
Topic: *Help in Multiple parallelism(very hard and tricky to spot)
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*Help in Multiple parallelism(very hard and tricky to spot)

2 qns : By confronting a devastated economy through actions such as creating the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, opening the Securities and Exchange Commission, suspending the gold standard, launching massive public works programs, and improving the morale of a demoralized nation through his ...
by changed_now
Sat Aug 15, 2009 12:01 am
 
Forum: General Verbal Questions
Topic: Parallelism with Clauses (that vs in which)
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Re: Parallelism with Clauses (that vs in which)

not necessarily.
if both answer options are present, the modification is obviously the better choice.

But the unmodified one still holds when the other options are grammatically incorrect
by changed_now
Thu Sep 24, 2009 2:19 am
 
Forum: GMAT Official Practice Test Verbal
Topic: Before scientists learned how to make a synthetic growth
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Re: Before scientists learned how to make a synthetic growth

"learning how to synthesize the growth hormone, scientists had to remove it painstakingly" -- dont know if its wrong, but I would still prefer C.

because, of the word "had" which suggests two actions in the past..so ideally, it should be "learned".