Although the restaurant company

[OriB117]

I know this question appeared here in the past, but still couldn't find an appropriate explanation why this part in sentence A: and its sales have increased dos not contain parallelism with independent clause in it , what makes it flawed.

thanks.

Although the restaurant company has recently added many new restaurants across the country and its sales have increased dramatically, its sales at restaurants open for more than a year have declined.

A) the restaurant company has recently added many new restaurants across the country and its sales have increased dramatically

B) the restaurant company has recently added many new restaurants across the country and its sales increased dramatically, its

C) many new restaurants have recently been opened across the country and its sales increased dramatically, the restaurant company's

d) having recently added many new restaurants across the country and with its sales increasing dramatically, the restaurant company's

e) recently adding many new restaurants across the country and having its sales increase dramatically, the restaurant company's

OA: A

[RonPurewal]

please search the forum before posting. thanks.
https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/foru ... t6714.html

perhaps your answer is already in that thread. if not, feel free to post your question again (in the existing thread).


by the way, if you do post your question again, please clarify in terms of specifics. (which exact parts of the sentence are the ones you're calling non-parallel?)
thanks.