Excerpt from NY times:

[MGMAT Fan]

Here is an excerpt from the new york times

"The transformation is similar to that of carbon. Under high pressure and intense heat, graphite, the most stable form of pure carbon, changes into diamond and remains diamond even when the heat and pressure are taken away."

Ron/ Stacey; I just have a quick question here:

If the part "and remains diamond even when" were to read, "and remains thus even when", will this be correct? or is ""and remains in this way although" better?

[RonPurewal]

"remains thus" would possibly be fine. it sounds a bit stilted and archaic, but i've certainly seen that kind of construction before.
however, it's also quite possible that the gmat will deride that sort of construction as wordy / awkward / unclear (especially "unclear"; the gmat requires a very high standard of precision in SC sentences).
so, the jury is out until we see evidence one way or the other on an official problem.

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"in this way" would NOT be fine, because no "way" has been described. in fact, no adverb is present at all to be properly parallel to "in this way" (an adverbial construction); diamond is most certainly not a "way" of doing anything.

[ashwani.mittal]

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I thought on GMAT, "when" will be used ONLY If "actual time" is mentioned...

Is E correct in this?

Pls suggest.

[esledge]

What is the source of this problem? I know the original sentence came from the NY Times, but I'm primarily interested in whether the question and answer choices come from a reliable source. It would be interesting to know whether the GMAT would consider diamond = way acceptable.

I agree with Ron: the "in this way" is flawed, though (D) is the best of the flawed options. If (D) read "remains in this form although," it would be better, as diamond is a form of pure carbon.

[mittalpankaj]

This is a question from OG verbal review 2, SC-Q45.

OA is 'E'.

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