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by karthikpandian19 » Thu Jan 05, 2012 12:49 am
Each year companies in the United State could save as much as $58 billion annually by preventing illness among employees and gain as much as $200 billion through improving performance of workers if they simply provided offices with cleaner air.

A. annually by preventing illness among employees and gain as much as $200 billion through improving performance of workers if they simply provided
B. annually if they prevented employee illness and gain as much as $200 billion through worker performance improved by simply providing
C. annually in employee illness prevention and gain as much as $200 billion through worker performance improved by simply providing
D. in employee illness prevention and gain as much as $200 billion through improving performance of workers if they simply provided
E. by preventing illness among employees and gain as much as $200 billion through improved worker performance if they simply provided

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by sam2304 » Thu Jan 05, 2012 2:34 am
Sentence starts with each year again we don't need to use annually so that rules out A, B and C

D - in employee illness prevention, through improving performance of workers - wrong

IMO E.
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by asmitaitis » Thu Jan 05, 2012 5:18 am
IMO E.

In A,B & C the usage of "annually" is redundant as "Each year" means the same.
and D alters the meaning of original sentence with save as much as $58 billion in employee illness prevention.

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by happymanocha » Thu Jan 05, 2012 6:03 am
IMO : E.

A - Redundant. are there any other issues here?
B - Redundant. Not parallel and through worker performance improved -- does not sound right
C - Redundant.. through worker performance improved -- does not sound right
D - Not parallel.
E - redundant word Annual word is removed and sentence is parallel.

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by karthikpandian19 » Thu Jan 05, 2012 8:03 pm
OA is E

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by [email protected] » Sat Jan 07, 2012 10:54 pm
A typical modifier and parallelism question that is asked in the GMAT>>>>>
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