neha.patni wrote:Under the provisions of the United States Constitution and the laws of the United States, the Federal government cannot detain an American citizen indefinitely without cause and is required either to bring charges against the individual being held, in which case he is entitled to a lawyer, or that the government must release him.
A) that the government must release him
B) release him
C) to proceed in releasing him
D) the government must release him
E) they must release him
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Is either to x or Y - Correct?
@Neha,
Would you please mention the source of this question? Is it from one of the official sources?
We know the following:
=>
Either XX or YY, where XX and YY MUST be grammatically parallel.
=> Either to XX or to YY,
Where, XX= Verb
AND YY MUST be = Verb.
Hence the option C is convincing at first glance.
A step ahead:
in GMAT, sometimes we can see that the second 'to' is given silent.
Example:
I like to swim, write, and read.
=> Here, to swim, to write, and to read is also correct.
In that sense the option B seems more flowing to me.
My learning from GMATPREP, OG, and different forums:
1=> If two options can express the same meaning without altering the intended meaning, the shorter one is preferred.
2=> The second "to" before verb is seen silent in numerous SC's from OG and PREP.
Now fix the battle:
B) release him
C) to proceed in releasing him
release him is better than
"to proceed in releasing him" for two reasons:
=> The former one is concise.
=> To has been kept silent.
Answer should be B.
