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by gmatmachoman » Sun Jun 13, 2010 11:27 am
Doctors generally agree that such factors as cigarette
smoking, eating rich foods high in fats, and alcohol
consumption not only do damage by themselves
but also aggravate
genetic predispositions toward
certain diseases.

(A) not only do damage by themselves but also
aggravate
(B) do damage by themselves but also are
aggravating to
(C) are damaging by themselves but also are
aggravating
(D) not only do damage by themselves, they are
also aggravating to
(E) are doing damage by themselves, and they are
also aggravating

My doubt is in the non- underlined portion : Are cigarette
smoking, eating rich foods high in fats, and alcohol
consumption
are in parallel??

Plz let me know what sort of parallelism is maintained?? I am confused!
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by hardik.jadeja » Sun Jun 13, 2010 1:47 pm
Yes they are. All of them function as noun here.

I think you are having this doubt because of "eating rich foods high in fats". Well "eating rich foods high in fats" is a gerund and as you know gerunds function as nouns.

And yeah, the answer is A by the way... :D

Hope that helps..

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