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moadhia: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 64; Joined: Fri Nov 21, 2008 6:42 am; Thanked: 1 times

by moadhia » Sat Jan 17, 2009 9:57 pm

A recent study has found that within the past few years, many doctors had elected early retirement rather than face the threats of lawsuits and the rising costs of malpractice insurance.
(A) had elected early retirement rather than face
(B) had elected early retirement instead of facing
(C) have elected retiring early instead of facing
(D) have elected to retire early rather than facing
(E) have elected to retire early rather than face

I was confused between C and E. I choose C because it was parallel to "rising", thus "retiring" , "facing" ...

The OA is (E). Why is "rising" being ignored here? Is it because its "the rising..." and not " ... and rising ..."

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piyush_nitt: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 424; Joined: Sun Dec 07, 2008 5:15 pm; Location: Sydney; Thanked: 12 times

Re: doctor malpractice insurance

by piyush_nitt » Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:09 pm

moadhia wrote:A recent study has found that within the past few years, many doctors had elected early retirement rather than face the threats of lawsuits and the rising costs of malpractice insurance.
(A) had elected early retirement rather than face
(B) had elected early retirement instead of facing
(C) have elected retiring early instead of facing
(D) have elected to retire early rather than facing
(E) have elected to retire early rather than face

I was confused between C and E. I choose C because it was parallel to "rising", thus "retiring" , "facing" ...

The OA is (E). Why is "rising" being ignored here? Is it because its "the rising..." and not " ... and rising ..."

IMO,

the rising acts as a NOUN

therefore for ||ism you need a nouns ..

infintive form of a verb here acts as a noun "to face" , "to retire"

whereas facing and retiring is a present participles

hence option E

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