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PostSun Aug 10, 2008 2:10 am
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In 1850 Lucretia Mott published her Discourse on Women, arguing in a treatise for women to have equal political and legal rights and for changes in the married women's property laws.
A.arguing in a treatise for women to have equal political and legal rights
B.arguing in a treatise for equal political and legal rights for women
C.a treatise that advocates women's equal political and legal rights
D.a treatise advocating women's equal political and legal rights
E.a treatise that argued for equal political and legal rights for women

the answer is D, but i choose E.

my rationale on this question is based on parallelism " for....and for..."

any one give me an explanation? thank you very much

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PostSun Aug 10, 2008 2:37 am
a treatise cannot argue, i believe people argue Smile
hence E is incorrect.

but still confused between C n D.



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PostSun Aug 10, 2008 8:02 am
sorry, it is my fault. i have checked my answer again, the right one is E according to parallelism ' for ... for..."

loki.gmat :

actually, you've got a wrong point here, the key issue is that the direct subject of "argue" is "the treatise", then what we need to do here is to compare the five choices, then select the best one - the tidiest one, that is the parallelism structure.

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PostTue Mar 24, 2009 4:01 am
Cathy: Even B has a parallel contruction right ?
how did you correctly pick the option E ?
Could you explain ??

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PostTue Mar 24, 2009 10:49 am
I do think it's a parallelism issue. Something argues "for rights...and for changes"

B is not correct because the part after the comma should correctly modify "her Discourse on Women". "a treatise" is the best description of the discourse, so the right answer should begin with a treatise.
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PostWed Mar 25, 2009 3:02 am
you are right!!

and also...another flaw in B is that... the phrase " arguing in A TREATISE..........." means to say that she argued in a different treatise not the Discourse of Women.
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PostSun Oct 25, 2009 12:41 pm
In E how can the treatise argue

A treatise that argued seems incorrect meaning. Can someone please explain.
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