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by rajatbareilly » Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:39 am
Because of his broken hip, John Johns has not and possibly never will be able to run the mile again.
A) has not and possibly never will be able to run
B) has not and possibly will never be able to run
C) has not been and possibly never would be able to run
D) has not and possibly never would be able to run
E) has not been able to run and possibly never will be able to run
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by fibbonnaci » Tue Mar 02, 2010 7:55 am
this is not a tense error but a parallelism error.
the sentence splits this way:
John has not able to run the mile again
John possibly never will be able to run the mile again.

A) has not and possibly never will be able to run [wrong parallelism. Eliminated!]

B) has not and possibly will never be able to run [wrong parallelism. Eliminated!]

C) has not been and possibly never would be able to run [ this will say 'has not been able to run the mile again' which is wrong. he was not able to run and will never be able to run again. the word 'again' needs to be tagged to the future event. Eliminated!]

D) has not and possibly never would be able to run [ wrong parallelism. Eliminated!]

E) has not been able to run and possibly never will be able to run [corrects the parallelism and meaning. My answer]

Hope this helps!
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by prinit » Tue Mar 02, 2010 9:44 am
rajatbareilly wrote:Because of his broken hip, John Johns has not and possibly never will be able to run the mile again.
A) has not and possibly never will be able to run
B) has not and possibly will never be able to run
C) has not been and possibly never would be able to run
D) has not and possibly never would be able to run
E) has not been able to run and possibly never will be able to run

My pick is E. Clear and unambiguous.
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by yeahdisk » Wed Mar 03, 2010 8:19 am
Whats the OA?
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by mj41 » Wed Mar 03, 2010 8:31 am
why is "has not and possibly never will" not parallel
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by rajatbareilly » Sat Mar 06, 2010 11:49 am
OA is E
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by mj41 » Sat Mar 06, 2010 10:51 pm
Guys I am really confused why A cannot be the answer and E is can anyone please elaborate
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by thephoenix » Sat Mar 06, 2010 11:52 pm
mj41 wrote:why is "has not and possibly never will" not parallel

its actually has not and possibly never will be able to run

we need to check the parts joined by the corelative conjunction must be llell

here its not the part before and does not contain able to

In E this error is corrected
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by bpgen » Sun Mar 07, 2010 3:19 am
my take is C
when we are using 'possibility', we should not use 'will', use 'would' instead:
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by girish3131 » Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:23 am
Undisputedly..... C
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by harshavardhanc » Mon Mar 08, 2010 5:19 am
fibbonnaci wrote:this is not a tense error but a parallelism error.
the sentence splits this way:
John has not able to run the mile again
John possibly never will be able to run the mile again.
I think the main verb able will require some form of to be before it ... correct me if I'm wrong.

John has not been able to....

As far as C is concerned, able to run is required on both sides of and to maintain ||ism. Hence, E should be the one.
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