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by jainrahul1985 » Tue May 24, 2011 8:59 am

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Most European countries offer a variety of programs for assisting working parents, which include paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and they subsidize public nurseries and kindergartens.

A. for assisting working parents, which include paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and they subsidize
B. for the assistance of working parents, to include paid maternity and paternity leaves, also financial allowances for families with children, and subsidizing
C. in order to assist working parents, to include paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and to subsidize
D. to assist working parents, which includes paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and they also subsidize
E. to assist working parents, including paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and subsidized

OA E but how come "assist" and "subsidized" parallel . Experts please comment
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by atulmangal » Tue May 24, 2011 9:07 am

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jainrahul1985 wrote:Most European countries offer a variety of programs for assisting working parents, which include paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and they subsidize public nurseries and kindergartens.

A. for assisting working parents, which include paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and they subsidize
B. for the assistance of working parents, to include paid maternity and paternity leaves, also financial allowances for families with children, and subsidizing
C. in order to assist working parents, to include paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and to subsidize
D. to assist working parents, which includes paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and they also subsidize
E. to assist working parents, including paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and subsidized

OA E but how come "assist" and "subsidized" parallel . Experts please comment
The parallelism is not set b/w "to assist" and "subsidized", the parallelism is set between the parts above in green in Op E
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by sameerballani » Tue May 24, 2011 9:12 am

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jainrahul1985 wrote:Most European countries offer a variety of programs for assisting working parents, which include paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and they subsidize public nurseries and kindergartens.

A.for assisting working parents, which include paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and they subsidize
B.for the assistance of working parents, to include paid maternity and paternity leaves, also financial allowances for families with children, and subsidizing
C.in order to assist working parents, to include paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and to subsidize
D.to assist working parents, which includes paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and they also subsidize
E.to assist working parents, including paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and subsidized

OA E but how come "assist" and "subsidized" parallel . Experts please comment
If we compare the beginning of the options we see the usage for the assistance, for assisting, To assist
We need to choos to assist. THis eliminates options A and B

In option D, which refers to working parents. BUt workin parent can't include paid maternity, etc.... SO eliminate it

Comparing C and E we see the difference is the usage to include and ,including. ,including is certainly preferable. ELiminates C

Hence OA=E !!

As far parallelism is concerned,
1)maternity || paternity
2)paid maternity and paternity leaves || financial allowances for families || subsidized public nurseries...
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by sameerballani » Tue May 24, 2011 9:15 am

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However, i am not sure whether ,including is same as which? Then in this case it would refer to parents and that would be wrong.

Someone Please clarify the difference between them and their usage.

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by mundasingh123 » Tue May 24, 2011 12:02 pm

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sameerballani wrote:However, i am not sure whether ,including is same as which? Then in this case it would refer to parents and that would be wrong.

Someone Please clarify the difference between them and their usage.

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"to assist working parents : is a modifier . You can ignore the modifier and read the sentence as it were without the modifier
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by atulmangal » Tue May 24, 2011 12:48 pm

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sameerballani wrote:However, i am not sure whether ,including is same as which? Then in this case it would refer to parents and that would be wrong.

Someone Please clarify the difference between them and their usage.

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you are correct here, ,including is an exception and work as ,which, however, even ,which modifies either preceding NOUN or NOUN PHRASE, according to Ron's one post, almost always u check for NOUN PHRASE....so applying the same knowledge i think here, ,including is modifying programs to assist working parents which is correct.
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by sameerballani » Tue May 24, 2011 6:39 pm

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mundasingh123 wrote:
sameerballani wrote:However, i am not sure whether ,including is same as which? Then in this case it would refer to parents and that would be wrong.

Someone Please clarify the difference between them and their usage.

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"to assist working parents : is a modifier . You can ignore the modifier and read the sentence as it were without the modifier
that means d use of which in option D is correct. is it?
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by mundasingh123 » Tue May 24, 2011 7:50 pm

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sameerballani wrote:
mundasingh123 wrote:
sameerballani wrote:However, i am not sure whether ,including is same as which? Then in this case it would refer to parents and that would be wrong.

Someone Please clarify the difference between them and their usage.

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"to assist working parents : is a modifier . You can ignore the modifier and read the sentence as it were without the modifier
that means d use of which in option D is correct. is it?
In D , programs is plural , so includes should be include . Then , Logically speaking parents cant include maternity leaves .
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by sameerballani » Tue May 24, 2011 9:17 pm

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mundasingh123 wrote:
sameerballani wrote:
mundasingh123 wrote:
sameerballani wrote:However, i am not sure whether ,including is same as which? Then in this case it would refer to parents and that would be wrong.

Someone Please clarify the difference between them and their usage.

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"to assist working parents : is a modifier . You can ignore the modifier and read the sentence as it were without the modifier
that means d use of which in option D is correct. is it?
In D , programs is plural , so includes should be include . Then , Logically speaking parents cant include maternity leaves .
Your point about include is correct. And even that logical thing is fine
But what i am asking is that which in option D is correctly referring to programs and not to parents.(considering to assist working parents : is a modifier . You can ignore the modifier.) is this true?
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by mundasingh123 » Wed May 25, 2011 6:38 am

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sameerballani wrote:
mundasingh123 wrote:
sameerballani wrote:
mundasingh123 wrote:
sameerballani wrote:However, i am not sure whether ,including is same as which? Then in this case it would refer to parents and that would be wrong.

Someone Please clarify the difference between them and their usage.

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"to assist working parents : is a modifier . You can ignore the modifier and read the sentence as it were without the modifier
that means d use of which in option D is correct. is it?
In D , programs is plural , so includes should be include . Then , Logically speaking parents cant include maternity leaves .
Your point about include is correct. And even that logical thing is fine
But what i am asking is that which in option D is correctly referring to programs and not to parents.(considering to assist working parents : is a modifier . You can ignore the modifier.) is this true?
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by lunarpower » Thu May 26, 2011 1:18 pm

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jainrahul1985 wrote:Most European countries offer a variety of programs for assisting working parents, which include paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and they subsidize public nurseries and kindergartens.

A.for assisting working parents, which include paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and they subsidize
B.for the assistance of working parents, to include paid maternity and paternity leaves, also financial allowances for families with children, and subsidizing
C.in order to assist working parents, to include paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and to subsidize
D.to assist working parents, which includes paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and they also subsidize
E.to assist working parents, including paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and subsidized

OA E but how come "assist" and "subsidized" parallel . Experts please comment
sameer's analysis is pretty good; check it out.

just to clarify, "paid" and "subsidized" are adjectives, not verbs, in this case. (they are "past participles", which function as adjectives.)

it's understandable if this is confusing, because the past-tense verb forms of these verbs are spelled the same way (paid/subsidized).
to illustrate the difference, here's an example in which the participle (= adjective-type form) and the verb are spelled differently:
verb root = give
participle = given
past-tense form = gave
here, "subsidized public nurseries" would correspond to "given information" --> you see how that works? "given" is not a verb; it's a participle that works as an adjective.
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by Anaira Mitch » Sun Dec 16, 2018 12:54 am

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Hello Experts,

Can we discuss options C and E in depth?
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