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Noting that the company's network is vulnerable

by patanjali.purpose » Sun Mar 11, 2012 1:25 pm
Noting that the company's network is vulnerable to viruses and spyware, the consultant has urged Infotech to upgrade its protections software, institute new policies for exchanging sensitive information, assembling a special team of information technology specialists to manage network security protocols

A) assembling a special team of information technology specialists to manage
B) assembling a special team of information technology specialists for managing
C) assembling a special team of information technology that manages
D) and assemble a special team of information technology specialists for managing
E) and assemble a special team of information technology specialists to manage

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by mankey » Sun Mar 11, 2012 7:13 pm
Not able to find out why E is better than D.

Thought D will be better than E, since managing gives a continuing effect, and team is supposed to manage the the work on a continuing basis.

Please help.

Is this some idiom issues?

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by avik.ch » Sun Mar 11, 2012 8:30 pm
According to me, the difference is between an infinitive and gerund.

to manage - infinitive
for managing - "managing" as an object of a preposition is a noun, a gerund.

Infinitives - incomplete, abstract, unconditional actions, something going to happen, and to indicate the purpose of the action of the doer ( adverb of purpose). Some idioms on this :
Believe X to be Y
Attempt to
Persuade X to do Y

Gerund - complete, real, and concrete

So the answer is E - we require an infinitive here.

But this difference is more dependent on the writer and his/her writing style.

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by killer1387 » Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:15 pm
Is it the case that GMAT prefers infinitive or there some defining rule?
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by avik.ch » Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:20 pm
killer1387 wrote:Is it the case that GMAT prefers infinitive or there some defining rule?
No, there is no such rule.

From the meaning -
assembling a special team of information technology specialists is for a purpose and for something that is going to take place in future as "manage network security protocols" is a futuristic/incomplete action -- so an infinitive is preferred.
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by Sanjay2706 » Sun Mar 11, 2012 10:49 pm
I think the the word "urged" in the beginning is a deciding factor in the answer being E rather than D
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by GmatKiss » Sun Mar 11, 2012 11:25 pm
IMO: D
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by avik.ch » Sun Mar 11, 2012 11:26 pm
Sanjay2706 wrote:I think the the word "urged" in the beginning is a deciding factor in the answer being E rather than D
"urged to" is applicable for --> to + assemble : to upgrade...., to institute, and to assemble.

But not for "to manage" : yes considering to X to Y(to try to fix...) as an idiom is also one way to look at it.

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by vikram4689 » Mon Mar 12, 2012 12:06 am
This might help
https://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/ ... gerinf.htm
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by avik.ch » Mon Mar 12, 2012 12:11 am

Great link -- thanks !! I was searching for it.
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by vikram4689 » Mon Mar 12, 2012 7:58 am
Avik,
did you try the exercise as well. I guess we can only get ballpark idea but not be fully sure of infinitive vs gerund. Consider following 2 sentences

He was rather a lazy student, and he tended to avoid working whenever he could
Yuri intended to do the assignment, but he postponed writing it for a week

'intended' & 'tended' mark future action but different answers are correct in above 2 sentences. 'postponed' marks a concrete action at that time only so gerund is correct
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by avik.ch » Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:13 am
I couldn't find any difference with what we have discussed in the following sentence.

vikram4689 wrote:

He was rather a lazy student, and he tended to avoid working whenever he could
he - subject
tended - verb
"to avoid working whenever he could "- object of the verb "tended"

parsing the object :

to avoid - infinitive , indicating futuristic action for the main verb "tended"
"working" is the object of the verb "avoid" in noun form. yes this is a gerund but its no way related to the main verb, its related with "avoid"
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by vikram4689 » Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:37 am
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by lunarpower » Sat Mar 24, 2012 1:56 am
i received a private message about this thread.

the difference between (d) and (e) this problem is, in my opinion, not dispositive; in this particular problem, a case could be made for either of those choices. therefore, if you eliminated the first three choices (presumably by using parallelism), you are pretty much where you want to be with this one.

in general, the modifier "to + verb" is used to signal the goal or purpose of an action/statement, while "for + verbing" conveys the idea that the action is, in some generic way, oriented toward the process of "verbing".
in many instances, therefore, both constructions are fine. for instance:
i need to get a new pair of shoes to run --> this sentence implies that "to run" is the ultimate goal (which, presumably, hasn't yet been achieved). in other words, according to this wording, i can't run until i get a new pair of shoes; therefore, "to run" is the ultimate goal or purpose of getting a new pair of shoes.
i need to get a new pair of shoes for running --> this sentence just means that i need to get a new pair of running shoes (= shoes whose purpose is oriented toward the general process of running). this sentence is different, in the sense that it doesn't portray the act of running some sort of remote goal or purpose that hasn't yet been achieved; it merely identifies the reason why i'm getting the shoes.

here's a pair of examples that is a little more like the sentence here:
our company needs to create a new position to manage shipments --> here, "to manage shipments" is a remote goal that has not yet been achieved; in other words, our company probably doesn't even have a shipping and receiving department yet. therefore, we need to establish a new position with that ultimate goal.
our company needs to create a new position for managing shipments --> here, "managing shipments" is just stated as a general purpose; it's probably something that our company already does, but, for some reason, it has now become incumbent upon us to create a separate department for it.
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by scholardream » Sat Mar 24, 2012 9:04 am
Hi Lunarpower,
Do you know this kinds of question appear much on actual GMAT ?
Your explanation help me understand the answer more clearly, but this means I have to care more about 'the meaning' of the SC rather than 'grammal' alone, right ?
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