GMATNinja wrote:
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(A) The Federal Republic of Brazil achieved independence in 1822, became a republic in 1889, and consisted of 26 states and one federal district.
The parallelism sounds nice here: “…Brazil achieved independence, became a republic, and consisted of 26 states and one federal district.” But these three things happened at three different time periods, so it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to use three parallel, past-tense verbs – especially since Brazil still consists
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