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by anshulagarwal12 » Fri Jul 20, 2012 12:57 pm
Question : Many Americans cities have been unsuccessful in their efforts to move mental patients out of mammoth asylums and that treat them in their local communities

a. to move mental patients out of mammoth asylums and treat
b. to move mental patients out of mammoth asylums for treating

Here, I think b is perfect choice as I dont feel that move and treat are two different works.

Kindly suggest where I am wrong.
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by kartikshah » Fri Jul 20, 2012 2:09 pm
The problem here is parallelism which is solved in option A
to move patients from X and (to) treat them in Y.
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by anshulagarwal12 » Wed Aug 01, 2012 9:32 pm
Hi Kartik,

But dont u think they both are not independent things?

They want to move patients for treating ONLY? to show this we dont need "and"

Please explain briefly.
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by kartikshah » Thu Aug 02, 2012 3:17 am
anshulagarwal12 wrote:Hi Kartik,

But dont u think they both are not independent things?

They want to move patients for treating ONLY? to show this we dont need "and"

Please explain briefly.
Hi,

We must be careful to avoid answer choices that change the meaning of the sentence. Option B tells us that patients are being moved so that they can be treated in local communities. In order to preserve the meaning of the original sentence, it would be best to choose A over B.
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by anshulagarwal12 » Thu Aug 02, 2012 6:24 pm
Hi Katik,

Yeah this what I believe is the correct logical meaning.

Why they want to move mental patients out of asylums? for treating them in the local communities. So it is more meaningful than A.
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by kartikshah » Thu Aug 02, 2012 11:10 pm
anshulagarwal12 wrote:Hi Katik,

Yeah this what I believe is the correct logical meaning.

Why they want to move mental patients out of asylums? for treating them in the local communities. So it is more meaningful than A.
Not necessarily. The sentence does not tell us that the patients were moved so that they could be treated in local communities. The sentence simply says that American cities are unsuccessful at two things: (1) moving patients out of large asylums, and (2) treating them in local communities.
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