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Abigail Adams’ lengthy separation

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by gmat740 » Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:04 pm
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To read of Abigail Adams’ lengthy separation from her family, her difficult travels, and her constant battles with illness is to feel intensely how harsh life was even for the so-called aristocracy of Revolutionary times.
(A) To read of
(B) Reading about
(C) Having read about
(D) Once one reads of
(E) To have read of

[spoiler]OA-A
IMO-B[/spoiler]

why is B wrong?
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by Robinmrtha » Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:07 pm
The pattern should be...
To do X is to do y...
only B and E satisfy...
But E has tense error....
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by goelmohit2002 » Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:13 pm
Robinmrtha wrote:The pattern should be...
To do X is to do y...
only B and E satisfy...
But E has tense error....
I suppose you want to say A and E...
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Re: Abigail Adams’ lengthy separation

by nervesofsteel » Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:51 pm
gmat740 wrote:870
To read of Abigail Adams’ lengthy separation from her family, her difficult travels, and her constant battles with illness is to feel intensely how harsh life was even for the so-called aristocracy of Revolutionary times.
(A) To read of
(B) Reading about
(C) Having read about
(D) Once one reads of
(E) To have read of

[spoiler]OA-A
IMO-B[/spoiler]

why is B wrong?
To read of Abigail Adams’ lengthy separation from her family, her difficult travels, and her constant battles with illness is to feel intensely how harsh life was even for the so-called aristocracy of Revolutionary times.

parallelism...
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