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by real2008 » Fri Jul 03, 2009 3:04 am
Too old to bear arms himself, Frederick Douglass served as a recruiting agent, traveled through the North to exhort Black men to join the Union army.
(A) traveled through the North to exhort
(B) and he traveled through the North and exhorted
(C) and traveling through the North exhorted
(D) traveling through the North and exhorted
(E) traveling through the North and exhorting


why not A?
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by goelmohit2002 » Fri Jul 03, 2009 1:19 pm
A does not have connecting "and" to complete the parallelism.

Moreover IMO "travelling" is better than "travelled"
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by real2008 » Sat Jul 04, 2009 11:40 am
then why not D?
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by goelmohit2002 » Sat Jul 04, 2009 11:53 am
real2008 wrote:then why not D?
IMO in D there is no parallel element for "exhorted".
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by real2008 » Sat Jul 04, 2009 12:17 pm
goelmohit2002 wrote:
real2008 wrote:then why not D?
IMO in D there is no parallel element for "exhorted".
it is present......

Too old to bear arms himself, Frederick Douglass served as a recruiting agent, traveled through the North to exhort Black men to join the Union army.
[spoiler](A) traveled through the North to exhort
(B) and he traveled through the North and exhorted
(C) and traveling through the North exhorted[/spoiler]
(D) traveling through the North and exhorted
[spoiler](E) traveling through the North and exhorting[/spoiler]
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by dumb.doofus » Sat Jul 04, 2009 12:41 pm
Frederick Douglas served as a recruiting agent over a period of time.. and so the two participles traveling and exhorting describe that activity in parallel..

IMO E
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by goelmohit2002 » Sat Jul 04, 2009 1:15 pm
real2008 wrote:
goelmohit2002 wrote:
real2008 wrote:then why not D?
IMO in D there is no parallel element for "exhorted".
it is present......

Too old to bear arms himself, Frederick Douglass served as a recruiting agent, traveled through the North to exhort Black men to join the Union army.
[spoiler](A) traveled through the North to exhort
(B) and he traveled through the North and exhorted
(C) and traveling through the North exhorted[/spoiler]
(D) traveling through the North and exhorted
[spoiler](E) traveling through the North and exhorting[/spoiler]
IMO Probably you are mixing parallelism with Superficial parallelism(the term that Manhattan says)....

Please see the example of Manhattan...

XYZ travelled PQR, visiting A, eating B and learning C.

Note that travelled is the main verb. Visitng, eating and learning are subordinate ones.

The same thing IMO apply here too....served is the main verb.....both other "ing" are subordinate to the main verb.

Basically as dumb.doofus mentioned....he served X...and did two subordiante activities...
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by vinayakdl » Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:26 pm
real2008 wrote:
goelmohit2002 wrote:
real2008 wrote:then why not D?
IMO in D there is no parallel element for "exhorted".
it is present......

Too old to bear arms himself, Frederick Douglass served as a recruiting agent, traveled through the North to exhort Black men to join the Union army.
[spoiler](A) traveled through the North to exhort
(B) and he traveled through the North and exhorted
(C) and traveling through the North exhorted[/spoiler]
(D) traveling through the North and exhorted
[spoiler](E) traveling through the North and exhorting[/spoiler]
In D "traveling" is not parallel to "exhorted" IMO E.

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by pratikgandhi » Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:47 pm
Nothing left to explain after this :). I picked E too but the reasoning is helpful. Thanks mohit
goelmohit2002 wrote:
real2008 wrote:
goelmohit2002 wrote:
real2008 wrote:then why not D?
IMO in D there is no parallel element for "exhorted".
it is present......

Too old to bear arms himself, Frederick Douglass served as a recruiting agent, traveled through the North to exhort Black men to join the Union army.
[spoiler](A) traveled through the North to exhort
(B) and he traveled through the North and exhorted
(C) and traveling through the North exhorted[/spoiler]
(D) traveling through the North and exhorted
[spoiler](E) traveling through the North and exhorting[/spoiler]
IMO Probably you are mixing parallelism with Superficial parallelism(the term that Manhattan says)....

Please see the example of Manhattan...

XYZ travelled PQR, visiting A, eating B and learning C.

Note that travelled is the main verb. Visitng, eating and learning are subordinate ones.

The same thing IMO apply here too....served is the main verb.....both other "ing" are subordinate to the main verb.

Basically as dumb.doofus mentioned....he served X...and did two subordiante activities...
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by real2008 » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:15 pm
thank you all active participants; OA is E.
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by Sharma_Gaurav » Tue Jul 07, 2009 1:37 pm
definite E answer.

Quite clearly explained above- main very "server" as a travelling agent,
connecting verb . "travelling and exhorting" when you join two clauses like this we need ing form of corrector.
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