SC

mandeepak · Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 10:14 pm Post subject: SC

George Sand (Aurore Lucile Dupin) was one of the first European writers to consider the rural poor to be legitimate subjects for literature and portray these with sympathy and respect in her novels.
(A) to be legitimate subjects for literature and portray these
(B) should be legitimate subjects for literature and portray these
(C) as being legitimate subjects for literature and portraying them.
(D) as if they were legitimate subjects for literature and portray them
(E) legitimate subjects for literature and to portray them

pahwa · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:52 am Post subject:

how about E....to consider and to portray are in parallel.

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This is what holding me back while preparing for GMAT Sentence correction.

Here you chose E because of a parallel?? I can't apply these rules

First the author is talking about rural people and people should be refered with them.

Second being in GMAT is wrong.

Hence we are left with D & E.

E does not make any sense if one says "to consider the rural people legitimate subjects".

Hence I will go with D.

jangojess · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:12 pm Post subject:

here the idiom for consider is tested...consider shld always follow by a noun no verbs nothing shld come in b/w...So ans is E

raulverde · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 6:13 am Post subject:

Here is a more formulaic answer.
The correct idiom is Consider X Y....
not Consider X to be Y

Danielle · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 8:36 am Post subject:

D could never be right because 'as if' is saying the X is not Y, it's as ifX is Y. In this case, the poor ARE legitimate subjects -- it's not a comparison. It's not as if they are, they simply are.

muks · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:45 am Post subject:

I m confused b/w A & E.
I think its A b'coz "consider" is used so we should use subjunctive form.

Let me know if i am wrong.

neptune000 · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:57 am Post subject:

muks!

A cant be right, ppl cant be associated with THESE.. E is the answer IMO! is parallel as well!